A coach I know puts 1200m of tempo work after each track session, the sessions themselves are speed, speed endurance or strength endurance. Speaking to somebody else, I was told tempo as part of the cool down ‘kills’ speed. Can somebody explain to me a justification for this? I don’t really understand why this would be the case.
As always, thanks guys.
I dont know if this true so please correct me if it isnt, but I heard it sends mixed signals to the CNS ??
Ah ok, and the mixed signals dampen the response? Please keep the ideas coming guys.
I’d actually like to know if this is the case as well.
Yeah, good bump. This thread yielded very little feed back. I could understand the issue if you were trying to cram sessions in, so by doing the tempo after speed, you don’t need to use the following day for tempo, allowing you to concentrate on more high intensity training. Of course, this means you lack recovery time!
I’m also thinking along the lines of how I have to include skating in my week for my sport(hockey). I can probably only get one really good run based workout in per week without overdoing it on my hamstrings, groin, and hip flexors.
There is research showing the last training stimulus of the day is the one that yields the adaptive response from the body - i can’t remember who the research was by but it exists.
Having said that I’m sure it would be ok to do this if for some reason you were only training twice a week or something and wanted to get it all done.
I agree, this is why some coaches perfer to always end with a jump or ol, for example:
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Does this make things difficult though. Say you want to have your last exercise or mode of training for the day as the most important to bring about the most relevant adaptations, but therefore you will be slightly less fresh, as the supplementary modes will have to come first, which will obviously lose energy.
Im not saying to make ur sprint workout the last activity but the last activity should be fast in nature for example ol, jumps, throws, short 10 or 20m sprints and only a couple reps for example 5x20m.
I’ve found that I can get two weight sessions in per week without feeling too trashed on the ice. Sprinting however, has a noticably negative effect on my on ice stuff for the next couple of days. I’m kind of figuring that an icetime for me probably has more in common with speed work than any other type of training I do…so that being said, I’m trying to move all of my running based work to a single day in which I don’t do anything else(and one that gives me time to recover before the next skate).
My coach says this training style “gives” you tempo hardness.
Training what style exactly?? Can you elaborate on tempo hardness and the benefits of it?
I know another training team, they run 1000 meter after each session.
It is also great for mental power. You practise it over (sorry I don’t know the english name for it I hope it is right) the anerobic-aerobic barrier. It shows advantages with VO2 max and lactate threshold training.
But you have to practise it as if you run a competition.
You can say it is almost the same like lactate threshold training 