Hello at the moment its taken me more then 48 hours to recover from speed work. So my plan is to do speed day, tempo day,tempo day,Speed day ect… I was curiuos if their is any modifications I should make if I’m doing two days of tempo inbetween speed? Should i just do two tempo days after the speed?Thanks:D
What are you doing for your speed days and how long have you been doing it for? Cutting down the volume may be an option.
Right now I’m jsut starting to take my running more seriously. I had been doing speed once a week once in a while two along with tempo once or twice a week and Brazillian Ju-Jitsu twice a week. I wasn’t taking track that seriously just exercsing. But recently I took a vaction for four days got back and decided to concentrate on Track. Here is what I have done so far. Tuesday-Speed day-did accelrations worked my way up to about 30-40 meters on last sprint did 7 sprints, wensday-Tempo-day, Thursday-Day off, Friday-Speed-day-did 10 starts on the beach stopped sprinting when my body stood up this 10 starts were just getting in a stance similair to the one you would get in with blocks,except without blocks and exploding when I got upright I stopped the sprint,Saturday- Tempo day, Sunday-day off,monday-day off,Tuesday-plan to do flying sprints today, and some accelerations to about 40-50 meters too haven’t done anything yet. That’s it basically.
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What do you mean by it takes 48 hours to recover? Are your muscles sore, or are the times that you are running in practice below what you usually do? What do you use as a measurement for CNS recovery? Are you doing contrast showers? Massage? Alot of times athletes mistake muscle soreness for CNS fatigue. You drinking lots of water? Eating enough protein? Sleeping enough?
Bro, running on the beach in the sand? This only works in movies. QuickA has a good point…are you doing too much on your speed days? I would take his advice and cut down the volume and see what happens.
My muscles arn’t sore but I don’t feel explosive or a 100 percent ready for speed, I train alone so I don’t have anyone timing me. I don’t have access to massage and I’m not doing contrast showers but I will now if they can help me recover. I eat meat or fish once a day usually, I think your right and I need more protein. I’ll buy the go drinks tommorow. Also I rember reading on the forum that Charlie said running on the beach was okay as long as it was the area that was right near the water and wasn’t longer then 10 meters. I was only doing starts getting in a starting postion then exploding upwards. I sprinted past the point where I got upright a couple of times but stopped because I noticed I couldn’t get my legs up high enough and the sand was affecting my mechanichs, thats why I was just doing starts and the sand didn’t seem to affect my start mechanichs at all. It was fourth of July and my parents made a big deal about me going to the track because of traffic So I just did starts on the beach.
Bro, running on the beach in the sand? This only works in movies.
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