HS Short Sprinter's Training Journal

RB34 · November 25, 2009, 3:10pm

I understand where you’re coming from, but at your training age, you do not need to be doing such low volume on weights and all of this nonsense. You have had so little actual preparatory work with all of the low volumes. One problem, and it is good to see you have thought about it, is going to be the transition from this very low volume program to a higher volume “tempo based” program. From my own mistakes, I’ve learned that you simply cannot just do a bunch of speed work and expect the speed to stay there when you jump into a tempo based program, nor is it optimal. Your training will be changing so drastically and you will not be adapted to it really, when you could have made a more hybrid approach that would take into consideration the fitness issues you have, along with addressing some of the things you missed from the tempo only training.

You have worked your ass off, so you should run some good PRs, but in the future, this is some stuff to think about.

You must think my weight volume is too low also…