Hi,
What other things should an 18 year old begineer be doing, at the moment I just do drills,running,skipping and basic arm exercises (weights) also what would be a meal plan to follow?
Thanks
Have you got a coach? Are you starting from scratch or have you been doing other sports? How many times a week are you planning on training? Where do you want to go with sprinting (get in shape, Olympics 2012)? Do you have spikes and a track to run on?
I am turning 18 in about 3 weeks, you can look over my journal if you’d like to see what my training is like.
You say you do running- what kind and how much? If you are looking for speed development you should do some weight training with the legs- squats, box jumps, and lunges are a good place to start and later on you could get into the olympic lifts for explosiveness.
make sure you’re taking a good multivitamin and getting your carbs from fruits and veggies and whole grains like wheat bread and oatmeal… as a rule you’ll want to avoid processed foods as much as possible. chicken is great, but IMO fish is even greater- salmon and tuna have two of the highest protein/gram ratios.
this is kind of general but it’s really late and I need my proper sleep 
No I don’t have a coach (there are none in the city I live in) but in Feb I am moving to place that has one so Ill have to wait until then.
Yeah Im starting from scratch (the only other exercise I do is Ballet and Pilates)
Don’t really know where I want to go with it yet,I don’t have access here to a track until feb so Ive just been practising on grass.
I have been doing what I said in my first post for 2 hours.twice a day,7 days a week plus ballet and pilates every 2nd day for an hour.
As for nutrition Ive been having:Breakfast-oatmeal,fruit, Lunch-salmon cakes with salad or 2 eggs on wholemeal toast (usually) Tea:fish or noodles with vegetables. Plus:-2 tablespoons flaxseed oil -3 fish oil tablets -3 calcium tablets and 4 vitamin c tablets.
In 4 weeks Im going to start going to a personal trainer at the gym for 2 sessions a week plus going to the gym by myself 2 other days.I don’t really know what exercises to do for speed etc with my personal trainer-should they know?
well i guess I should have said all this in my first post!
by the way-I live in New Zealand.
Can anyone give me any advice!?!
Take a look at what krasnayafleur has been doing this year - if you’re just starting out ease urself in with some tempo runs of 100m at 75% of ur max speed with a walk back recovery.
Say 2 - 4 sets of 4 reps this will help u get used to running and improve ur fitness - warm up carefully and stretch/warm down afterwards to avoid undue stiffness.
Check out other training journals then piece together a weekly routine and maybe some of the other members will critique it 4 u. It will be sensible to start off with smaller amounts of work until ur body adapts to the new stresses.
Something like this to start so u don’t kill uself -
Day 1/3/5 -
800m jog /skip / active stretching ( any warm up drills u may know )
3 x 4 x 100m @ 65 - 75% walk back recovery - 3 mins between sets +
whatever weights ur currently doing with reps of 3 x 8 ( not heavy )
warm/stretch down
Day 2/4/6 -
Ballet/pilates/ stretching
Vary and spread ur weights over the 3 days u do them - don’t keep clobbering urself - miss a session if u get unduly sore. Add more sets of 100m/200m as u feel able - keep the sets down to 4 reps. Introduce abdominal work as u can - but remember to take it easy - each new training componant is an added stress. Keep flexible - if u get sore replace a running session with some pool work.
A few weeks of this should prepare u better for the introduction of faster work - if u can afford it shell out for one of charlies training books - absolutely priceless info.
Maybe others can help with better examples.
Goodluck