I’m going to be working with 12 and 13 years old kids at a local school. I checked out the school today, and the problem is there’s only a 30 meter hallway in which to run, there a bunch of short hallways with 90 degree turns. What can I do to create good tempo workouts with such a limmited distance?
Find a big open field to do tempo since it should be done on grass anyways. Surely there’s gotta be a soccer or football field around.
You can inclide medicine ball work and abs and stuff as part of the tempo volume.
Yeah a big grass field would be perfect, but I’m up north in January it will be -30C and covered in snow. The medball idea sounds good, thanks Herb.
No gym in the school?
Believe me, I know about crappy weather, I live in Michigan. If you have access to a pool you can substitute pool workouts for tempo. For more info on the pool workouts get CF’s 2002 Forum review e-book available at the site’s store.
I think bikes could work but can cause some tightness so you have to be careful. I’m not sure whether the breaking in period is worth it until your body adapts and you stop getting tight, I’ll probably be trying them in winter.
This is what I would suggest as a tempo replacement when the field isn’t available. Do about 40 minutes of weight work with 30s in between sets and around 8-15 reps in a set so that it translates to about 40 sets. Some people work on bodybuilding/isolation type exercises, I don’t have any bad structural deficencies so I mostly do compounds, but the important thing is to keep it light enough that it will not cause muscle damage and keep moving at all times.
Prophet, did Charlie really wear those shorts that way or was that pic tampered with to make the shorts look so small. 
My word!
And look at that shirt, lol Didn’t expect that pic to get leaked did you charlie. LMAO
Why not skipping rope? It’s cheap, simple and fun (you can use different ‘moves’) and you don’t need a lot of space per person so you can have heaps of kids going at the same time.
I really like the skipping rope idea. Thanks a lot; I’ll definitely throw that in there with other callisthenics. Thanks for the responses guys.
Bodyweight exercises along with other suggestions, than you can use 20m jog as recovery