[quote]treco wrote:
How about interval training?[/quote]
Yes. You need to be doing interval work and sprints. And lifting hard. And feeding your body for the activty your doing. That’s all you can do. If you are doing long-distance for competitive purposes, any good athlete will be doing hard interval work and lifting if not sprinting per se, anyhow.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Amadgenius wrote:
Running will not preserve FTMs unless you are running at a fast pace. I suggest you do 100m-200m sprints to preserve FTMs. Start out with doing 5 100m sprints & 3 200m sprints for about 3x’s a week for a month. Then increase. Sprints are hard to do when you 1st start out…your whole body is in a fast pace motion for a short period of time…and you are pushing it over and over again. Good luck
This isn’t a matter of him choosing to run that much for no reason. His coach has him running that much. I doubt his coach will take too well to him deciding to do sprints instead.
[/quote]
True. But speedwork and even plyometrics, striders, and form drills are important for middle distance athletes as well. Good coaches recognize this. Hopefully he has one. I consider them along with lifting an integral part of training for anyone who competes in race distances of two miles or less in addition to long runs, longer interval work, and base mileage.
[quote]
True. But speedwork and even plyometrics, striders, and form drills are important for middle distance athletes as well. Good coaches recognize this. Hopefully he has one. I consider them along with lifting an integral part of training for anyone who competes in race distances of two miles or less in addition to long runs, longer interval work, and base mileage. [/quote]
Well, I haven’t gotten a full taste of our fitness regimen because the NCAA limits the amount of time we can practice right now and I haven’t been in school that long. If we don’t do speed/plyo work, I’ll just do it on my own which isn’t a problem really.
[quote]panther2k wrote:
Is there anything specific you can do to preserve fast-twitch muscles despite doing a lot of running?[/quote]
Can I ask what sport? I know how much it sucks with some coaches that are stuck in the past… I use to play baseball and the coach would make us do 5 mile runs every week… One time I even tried to explain to him that it was conterproductive but that didn’t go over well. It was so hard for me to run because all I could think about was how every step was making me slower,weaker and less explosive.
Good luck!
Thanks for all the suggestions!
If you’re already doing an assload of training (e.g. with all this running etc.) I would add some sprints on your own but make them much shorter in duration, for example I would do 10m and 20m sprints to try and keep the additional volume as low as possible while exerting maximal effort during the sprints.
Try to get them timed if you can and stop when the times start to drop off. You don’t need to do a lot of these. Some plyos (e.g. drop jumps from a height roughly equal to your vertical) would probably help as well.
If lifting is past of your program I would do a low rep high weight tytpe program with a volume that won’t cause you to overtrain (i.e. depends on the rest of your program).
[quote]tmay11 wrote:
panther2k wrote:
Is there anything specific you can do to preserve fast-twitch muscles despite doing a lot of running?
Can I ask what sport? I know how much it sucks with some coaches that are stuck in the past… I use to play baseball and the coach would make us do 5 mile runs every week… One time I even tried to explain to him that it was conterproductive but that didn’t go over well. It was so hard for me to run because all I could think about was how every step was making me slower,weaker and less explosive.
Good luck!
[/quote]
Yeah, I play tennis. I definitely won’t be bringing his methods into question lol. In all honesty, even for the average D-1 athlete(aka alcoholic slacker), this kind of stuff probably isn’t detrimental and they still benefit from it.
What kind of effect do sprints that go on and on(to the point where they are no longer close to sprints) have.
[quote]panther2k wrote:
tmay11 wrote:
panther2k wrote:
Is there anything specific you can do to preserve fast-twitch muscles despite doing a lot of running?
Can I ask what sport? I know how much it sucks with some coaches that are stuck in the past… I use to play baseball and the coach would make us do 5 mile runs every week… One time I even tried to explain to him that it was conterproductive but that didn’t go over well. It was so hard for me to run because all I could think about was how every step was making me slower,weaker and less explosive.
Good luck!
Yeah, I play tennis. I definitely won’t be bringing his methods into question lol. In all honesty, even for the average D-1 athlete(aka alcoholic slacker), this kind of stuff probably isn’t detrimental and they still benefit from it.[/quote]
Ah, well tennis is more aerobic then something such as baseball or football but I can still see why you wouldn’t want to do too much running.