Started off indoor season running 7.46 (old pb was 7.48 from last season) and after 7 weeks im running 7.38 now. I ran a 7.45 just today though…
Outdoor season pb was 11.3 last year (0 wind).
Im doing speed 2-3x per week, tempo/some special endurance with my club workouts, lifting 2-3x per week (squats 2x per week), doing some plyos, etc etc.
any ideas?
Maybe you are over training, 3 days of speed inseason may be too much along with squatting 2 times per week and special endurance work.
yah perhaps, but it’s hard to tell what’s overtraining for me and what isn’t.
my speed volume/plyo volume isn’t too high in general though.
Yes but my main concern is, couple guys I have to be beating in outdoor (and I did last year) have now got ahead of me by a tenth or so in the 60.
So, don’t worry about what other athletes are doing. That’s one of the reason why I love track and field, everyone is doing different training and will peak at different times stick to your plan.
If you are actually doing all of that work, you are probably a bit overreached, as people have said before. The volumes and frequencies are a bit excessive. Luckily, you don’t seem to be overtrained if you still ran a PB and are in striking distance of it, but you are almost definitely doing a bit too much.
I don’t get it, what’s the diff between overtrained and overreached?? You are either over or under…
what is a more ideal volume?
adjusting owm workouts w/ club its been:
mon: rest
tues: tempo or spec. endurance
wed: lifting
thurs: rest
fri: speed/plyos/lifting
sat: rest
sun: speed/plyos/lifting
Ideal volume is dependent on the person. If you are getting worse rather than getting better or maintaining, then something is too much.
Im not getting worse, im just not improving at the rate I want to be.
Overtrained is over a much longer period of time. If you had a hard week of training, you probably wouldn’t be ready to PR that weekend–ie you’re overreached. If you were to rest up a bit you’d be okay. If you’re overtrained, most research and literature points to it being a process of many weeks and months that takes and equal amount of time to completely recover from.
“Started off indoor season running 7.46 (old pb was 7.48 from last season) and after 7 weeks im running 7.38 now. I ran a 7.45 just today though…”
If you just aren’t improving at the rate you want to and you are personally convinced that there is nothing wrong with the training (which you apparently seem to believe), then there isn’t much else you can do. Man up at the races I guess. If it isn’t training, then it has to be something.
It also seems im running a bit faster in practice than at meets, I may be wrong, but that’s how it feels like.
My ass you are, no way you are running faster in workouts vs meets.
It’s only how it feels like.
Because your running relaxed and on race day when lane 7 start to creep on you your body starts to fight and all goes to hell. Maybe you are like me, it take 7-10 races for shit to settle down.
i dont have the answers, im just saying how something feels like to see what the problem could be.