I lift every other day, and I do sprints every other day using the format on the running man article. The day I lift I don’t do sprints, and the day I do sprints I don’t lift. Every time I lift I work legs. My question is: should I stop working out my legs since I am doing the sprints?
I feel like I don’t perform my best in either because I don’t give my legs time to rest, like I do my other muscle groups. Or is it because I just started that routine?
I find it easier to do sprints after lifting, even when i’ve done legs, and if i want to do cardio on other days, to do lighter stuff like walking or elliptical. For exactly the reason you state - your legs never get downtime otherwise.
In my training program for athletes in off season, I have them doing full body workouts including lifting and HIIT on the same days. We work out 2-3 times per week.
I begin with moderate intensity plyos in Tabata fashion, go to speed and quickness, then to full body lifting.
On those lifting days, we also do legs. Mostly posterior chain followed by leg press/squats/step ups.
The exercises are very focused and workouts very intense.
I noticed this was the Beginners Forum. My athletes are fairly elite for their age groups: HS - College. I am not sure where you would fit with experience.
You may want to take things a little slower if you are not an experienced lifter/athlete. Work into the HIIT format.
Maybe u cud try lifting for a week & sprinting for the next week like:
Week 1: Mon, Wed & Fri: wt training
Week 2: Mon, wed & Fri: Sprinting
Try this cycle.
Also keep a close eye on ur Non exercise Activity (for eg: I was climbing a lot of stairs & walking miles when I was working on a project & that really overworked my knees, once I cut back on the stairs though my knees got a lot better)
after my full body work out i dont have anything left for HIIT , so i just do it the next day on my off weight day. in my workouts for legs all i do is squat deadlift and one unilateral leg movement, so my legs dont take that much of a beating.
You’ll be fine
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback.