Actually I am wearing spikes in that video (and the others). They are some pretty basic nikes, don’t know what model, that a friend of mine who ran track in high school gave me.
My training has changed a bit since I last posted on here. I’ve gone to 3/wk and upped the sprint volume a bit. Basically M/F was longer sprints and lighter weights and W was shorter sprints, more med ball throws and heavier weights. Over the last week or so I’ve gone to maintenance weights (snatch grip dl and weighted push ups) and increased the intensity of the sprints. I am reducing the volume and plan on going for a 60m PR at the end of next week prior to starting my internship the following week. I keep a log on the db hammer forum if want to get a clearer picture of what I’ve been doing. Thanks for the help.
I know you are wearing spikes. There are diff kinds of spikes. Distance spikes have a heel (cushion), sprint spikes do not. Compare nike rival d and nike rival s. I will try to check out the db hammer forum.
They should be fine. I’m not saying you need to get new spikes I’m just saying going from mid-distance spikes to sprint spikes may give you that .05 to .1 improvement in times (60-100m). You can always get more opinions on this
Never thought about that before, thanks for the tip Silencer. Not sure what you mean by “spike array” though… spacing of the spikes I’m guessing. After browsing around a bit I went ahead and got the addidas meteors. The spikes on those look the same as the Demolishers but different than the nike spikes…
I took a look at it the day you originally mentioned it. I thought it was ok. How do you feel from day-to-day, week-to-week? Are you planning any races this summer?
Oh and for your front squats. You might want to try the crossover grip sometime. If you can get used to it, you will be able to do more weight and it won’t blow up your wrists at all. If you get good at it, it doesn’t really hurt at all (crossover grip).
Day to day I feel pretty good, usually a little drained the day after sprinting/throws/weights but not too badly. I am usually freshest for my Monday and Friday sessions and slightly less fresh for Wednesday’s session. As you could see I keep track of med ball throws every session to guage readiness and I’m only down by about a foot on Wednesdays which is a less intense session than M/F.
Week to week I’ve been feeling about the same and not making as much progress as I’d hoped given my level and no real prior sprint training. However, I have been feeling better over the last week or two now that I am dropping the volume a bit and my times have been slightly better.
I am not planning any races this summer because I got an internship with an S+C program that starts in a week which will determine my training (will likely include nearly zero sprinting :mad: ) so I won’t be able to adequetely (sp?) prepare for a race, especially SE. I am planning to treat this Friday’s session (will actually be pushed back to Sat or Sun) as a race for the 60m with just some starts and throws then heavy bench two days before it. I will treat it like a race with a couple of rounds and hopefully run a decent PR.
I missed the front squat part of your post… I will try it some time and see how it works for me. I haven’t really had any problems with my wrists using the clean grip but I’ll see which one allows me to use more weight. Thanks for the tip.
For some reason I have been unable to get that video on youtube for the past 3hrs. Charlie, I saw a comment you gave someone else on the forum who posted using photobucket so let me know if this works for you. Thanks.
Leaning back too much which may be causing your head to tilt back and your arms to swing to close to your face.
Your foot during the flight phase is pointed down instead of parallel to the ground.
Posssible darting (tippy toes). You dont want to sacrifice power for frequency of stride.
You might be getting too vertical on your stride which is throwing the rest of your phases off.
My suggestions.
Try not to lean back. Try to get more extension horizontally on flight phase. Try to push off more with each foot strike instead of darting on your tippy toes.
Other then that. Not bad. Click on the video you can slo-mo you can see for yourself.
