[quote]Therizza wrote:
Well, for all my fellow fighters out there, amateur, recreational and otherwise, how about it? How many miles you logging on the good old asphalt a week? To be honest, I only do 3.5 miles twice a week… yea yea I know, but I’m gonna gear that up when I get back to school.[/quote]
I hate running with a passion that is why I do interval running with a heart rate monitor. I usually run as fast as I can until my heart rate tops out at 180, then I walk until it comes down to 140, then I sprint again (rinse and repeat). I do this for about 30 minutes 2 times per week. This type of running is awesome for combat training because it gets your heart in shape fast! After about 5 hours (over a 2 week period) of this type of running you’ll have increased both aerobic and anaerobic endurance by leaps and bounds. I think it usually ends up being about 2 miles or 2.5 tops per session.
I find interval running this way to be the best for me personally because it seems to make the 30 minutes go by so quickly and with the HR monitor you never over-do it. Moreover, I can’t stand moving at a constant rate for more than a few minutes. It is mind-numbing. I really dig the explosions and slow-downs of interval sprints, though, which mimics MMA type situations very well.
Sorry about the tangent… To answer the original question, about an hour a week for road time.
[quote]Vegita wrote:
Barachiel wrote:
I hate running with a vivid passion. In my early teen wrestling years I ran 6 miles a day (3 first thing in the morning/2 before practice/ 1 after practice) and did sprints only because I hate losing even more.
Nowadays I do more interval training. I’ll do jump rope, bear crawls, mountain climbers, high rep hindu squats, calisthenic circuits, and occaisionally running sprints. But I will avoid flat out running whenever possible.
I have always wondered if Calisthenic intervals could be used effectively in leu of running for good cardio conditioning. One thing I would add into that mix would be burpees. I recently watched a video where a guy did burpees under a pullup bar, He went down into the plank, did a pushup, came back up and jumped up to the pullup bar, did a pullup and dropped, that was one rep. Seems pretty hardcore. I can’t imagine I could do more than 10 in a row without totally gassing.
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I totally agree. If you are a fighter and aren’t doing burpees, you really should. To add to the one you were talking about, when you squat down before you plank, assume a squatting position. Also do this when you come up from the ground and jump to the pull up bar. Raising your pullup bar will make for more intensity too!
5k 3 days a week and I do wind sprints, basically the 40yd twice repeated 10 times. Plus I do my share of body weight stuffs, pushups, pullups, burpees, mountain climbers, alligator walks, bear crawls…stuff like that. Thats my typical cardio day. I lift 3 days a week and do MT and GJJ almost everday. Sunday is my day off from everything. I take a week off every 3 months or so to fully recover. Yes, I work that hard.
[quote]Vegita wrote:
400’s are not sprints. 100 or less is a sprint, you may be able to get away with calling a 200M a sprint. 400 meters is the track equivalent to jumping rope. Run it as hard as you can and you get to the puking or near puking point. No matter how good shape you are in too, you just run it faster and faster, it never gets easy.
Running 100 Meters is easy, you run it as hard as you can and it’s easy. Running 2 miles is easy, you can run it hard and be winded but you are never pushing your body that hard. 400 meters is evil, you punish your body, your mind, your cardiovascular system, total self brutality. 800’s can be sickening also, but I find it harder to push through 2 laps.
One lap is it, start fast and don’t be a pussy, you can make it through 200 Meters relatively ok, then it’s like well only 200 to go, but it’s starting to hurt now. Shit, 150 to go, starting to really hurt but i’m coming around the corner. Hell I’m on fire and can’t breathe, 80 meters to go. Shit, top gear going on nothing but will, 40 meters to go, hit it hard, Whoosh, Stumble, collapse into a pile.
I used to do that shit week in and week out during my track days. Brutal brutal distance.