A few years ago a track coach gave me workouts I had never done before, they were extremely grueling and ultimately changed my musculature in some major way. The coach had me running intervals between 400m-1200m 3 to 4 miles worth at about 80% effort with only 100 meter jog rest (i.e. approximately 45 seconds). 48 hours later I would do more speed stuff; intervals between 100m-400m with low rest (i.e. common workout 8x200m, 80-85% effort 30 seconds rest per 200 [3 minutes rest] another set of 8x200m) and thats it for the week (sounds simple enough?).
Now these workouts basically kill your legs even jogging becomes tough. And in about 5-6 weeks my legs just felt like led and I was only able to run 2:20 on an all out 800m (painful); My best was 1:50! (not painful) Now some can say my legs were just tired but its more than that (times did not change with rest). It seems I was trained to only use a specific muscle group neglecting others. After 8 months I left my coach and im still slow??
2006-09-04 20:05:20 · 2 answers · asked by sippinon40ozs 2 in Sports ➔ Other - Sports
What type of distance training, tempo, and recovery runs were you doing in addition to the intervals?
What type of base training did you do before the season?
Many HS coaches tend to focus on intervals, intervals, intervals.
There are many elite middle distance runners that do not even do aany intervals until racing season starts.
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2006-09-06 07:19:56 · answer #1 · answered by 6th Finger 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. never!
it's lame.
2006-09-05 03:12:11 · answer #2 · answered by andrew 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋