As far as I know, people’s opinion about how reliable HRV is very mixed. Would you please share your experience with HRV if you have any?
Just another tool in the toolbox…
But hamstring strain is a terrible injury that’s extremely debilitating…Not only that, but it often is treated and rehabbed poorly, resulting in scar tissue adhesion, and causing more hamstring strains. Many world class athletes blew seasons because of hamstring pulls.
Alright, maybe what I hear on the news are’t everything. When I hear about sprinters getting injured, it seems like hamstring strain is the most common one, followed by quad, calf, and groin pulls. I hear about achilles tendon injuries much less frequently, but when they do occur, man, they’re like the most debilitating injury a track athlete can have. It ended Liu Xiang’s career, and although not a track athlete, it really hurt Kobe Bryant as well towards the end of his career.
Everything I sent you on message are first year. November of 2015 was my first ever competition, and April of 2016 was my first ever outdoor competition.
True, there are so many different ways good days and bad days can show up with indications and symptoms.
Yes, hamstring strains are the most common injury in sprinters. They make up about half of all sprinters’ injuries. Most can be fixed within 2-4 weeks.
Sure it is, because it’s hard for the athlete to complete diagnosis of state of the muscles readiness and level of functional activation.
Most likely cause of hamstrings injury is that when the prime mover doesn’t work properly consequently synergist muscle getting battered. Gluteus don’t work, hamstrings being overloaded.
We had a similar probablems few years back with other athletes in the group. However it was fixed in two/three weeks using Gerard’s approach and gluteus activation protocol that we have in place.
Ok, in that case, I encourage you to simply be patient kwave because the fastest time you listed is slower than the USATF 10-11 year old girls record for the 100m. I don’t state that in any way as a slight, only as a means of perspective.
Thus, while your non-specific level of general preparation was respectable going into your T&F training, it was completely absent of actual sprint training (unless you did not indicate that).
Not knowing how old you are I cannot speak towards what might be in the cards for you or not; particularly because your sprint training history is so brief. Never the less, given the times you listed and your jumps and weights and so on I believe I’m right in stating that you’ve been in error to amass the sprint volumes you have been totaling because, in fact, your outputs are low enough that (while they are intense for you in relative terms) you lack the ability to destroy yourself at this time.
No doubt patiences is rare commodity in younger athletes these days kwave because the amount of knowledge you have at your finger tips, literally by way of technology, equates to the whole of human existence and is transferable at the speed of light- literally. All that said, however, training adaptation takes time. For example, Charlie listed how Ben Johnson ran 11.5 at age 15, and he was 26 years old when he ran his 9.79 in Seoul. Ben didn’t break 10sec for nine years after he starting training (until he was 24 years old) with a 9.95.
The trend of your sprint PBs from season to season are very telling as to how the annual training must take shape season to season and how one is wise to manage expectations. I defer to Charlie’s Inside the SPP for a superb overview of this concept.
If my outputs are low enough that I can’t destroy myself, then doesn’t that mean I can do more volume without without being ‘destroyed’??
Is there a different reason as to why you stated that it was wrong of me to do the volume I did?
Would you say my volume of tempos (1200-2000 a day 2-3x week) are okay? or is there anything else I should add or take away?
I’m 26 I know I’m doing really bad for my age…I’m only doing sprint training because there was nothing I could do to give up on it. I will be forced to continue the pursuit no matter how futile it may be. Though, I’m pretty sure I still have room to improve, even if it may not be as much as I want. I will need to learn to sprint properly and might need advises from more experienced and wise people in the track world.
It can be fixed fairly quickly, but my biggest concern with them is preventing re-occurrence.
I’ve had very nasty, horrible hamstring pull 3 years ago when I was training briefly (like 2 months, no meets). I believe it was lack of my left glute activation and after a lot of chiropractic treatments, I think I’m doing much better with glute activation. I haven’t had hamstring problem since then, and that’s one thing I’m really happy about that I hope persists.
You are killing your performance with all these questions… Some of the best athletes I worked with didn’t know anything about training nor did they care. The one’s that cared the most or knew the most usually wasn’t very good.
It’s because those best athletes already know they’re good so they have no reason to care. It’s ones that aren’t very good like myself that are more in need. It just shows that I’m desperate, but I don’t believe that questioning and wanting to know and caring itself will kill my performance.
Join a track club and get some personal/group coaching - there is no substitute for hands on coaching. And running with other athletes that will pull you to faster times. Try running 100, 200 and 400.
This site is the best resource you will find on the internet both for the products and the boards. But we dont have a history of your training, your times, we dont see you train twice a week etc etc. It is not possible to answer every question remotely. Neither can you interpret how the information applies to you specifically - you dont have the experience.
Forget your 2 mile time. Sedentary people cannot run 2 miles, keep fit joggers cant manage an 8 minute mile. Your pace represents a slightly serious recreational runner but not quiete a road running club competitor so it is not that bad. So what - have you ever heard anyone use a 2 mile time to model sprint performance ?
There are simple programs to improve this time. But they will degrade your sprinting performance … Forget it.
Settle on a realistic level of performance. Recreational, club, regional, etc and aim for that. Your overall level of fitness is ok, you were reasonably quick at school so you are not one of the slow/uncoordinated types that will never be fast.
Sprint 2x a week, tempo 2x a week and lift weights. Keep it simple. At your stage it does not need to be rocket science, dont agonise too much and enjoy it.
Not at all. The one’s like yourself think too much and over analyze shit…
The point kwave is that it seems you are on the quest for more volume thinking that is the answer to getting faster. Just the opposite is true, in fact. As intensification rises the volume of high intensity work must reduce year after year (again, reference Charlie’s Inside the SPP for graphics).
The tempo volume isn’t what is being addressed by anyone here kwave, as the consequence it plays is secondary to the high intensity work. That said, you shouldn’t be looking for the upper limit of that either.
Just remember that this is your beginning training and proportion of high intensity work (for you and while it may not seem intense to another) will be greater due to reasons I already explained. Then, year after year, the volume of high intensity work will diminish in favor of low intensity work.
Seems as if you have been performing relatively high volumes of pure speed work in addition to tempo volumes equivalent to what a much more advanced sprinter/field sport athlete would be doing.
I really do want to join a club or something and learn. Although many clubs for adults are distance running based, if I can find a good sprint coach in my area whose willing to work with a lower level sprinter like me, I’ll be thrilled and very grateful. I really hope to get a car soon and also improve a little so that before the end of the year, I can find a good coach that could help me.
Being bad at 2 miles don’t hurt my feeling…it just tells me my endurance is horrible. I personally haven’t seen any healthy young male that can’t run 8 minute mile, but that’s just me.
When I was in school, I was one of the quicker ones, but I was also uncoordinated, when it comes to things like ball or stick sports. Though, that probably is quiet irrelevant. I think I heard of some world class sprinters before that were like that. Also, I’m not particularly uncoordinated with activities that doesn’t involve fine motor skills with balls, fingers, and stuff.
I do overanalyze, but that is due to my unfulfilled needs. You’d know if you were ever in my shoes.
Yes, I know that with intensification, volume has to go down. However, as a beginner now, if I start with very low volume (300m a day), then when I do improve and intensify my training, there are’t a lot of volume to drop from. If I drop from 300m a day to 250 then 200 for example, that seems too little to me, but is it not?
I was thinking that as a beginner, I should be doing about 650m a day, then drop to about 600 as I become more of intermediate, and about 550 towards the end of my sprinting development (or progression).
Would about 400->350->300 a day speed work better? and having my daily tempo volume about 1200-1600 now and progress to 1600-2200 eventually?