It’s tempo, it’s chicken soup and I’m sure the level of your athletes should be in that 14-16sec zone. If it’s too easy throw in 20 situps and 10 pushups on each end. Don’t make it more complex then it is.
Actually no. The times you are advocating would be too fast considering the high school pr’s and even improved/current pr’s of most of the people I have.
I’m going to make the instructions as detailed as necessary to ensure the athletes are running at the proper intensities. I’m not getting complex but I am going to provide them a range. Since I can’t watch them and a number of the ahletes have asked for the times, I’ll give them that.
Thought you were a college coach??? Actually it’s not complex, even CF comment earlier was very easy/chicken soupish.
I am. Every college track coach cannot get 10.5guys etc. into their school (academic standards, scholarship money available, facility quality limitations., one of the lowest ath. dept. budgets in the nation etc.) and mine is one of them.
I know well of Charlie’s chicken soup comments re: tempo-I’ve heard them many times- as I’ve got most of the products, seen him in person twice including co-hosting a three day seminar with him featured, and was of the first people on his board-the original board back in 2001.
Who said it was complex? I said no to the time range you indicated. As I said before, the athletes want a simple but specific time range to run in and I know his recommendation is 65-75% adjusted for surface conditions.
I gave you a sample answer that I’m sure CF would support. 16-20sec, if it’s too easy add some bw drills btw the drills. Also you could always start out at 20sec and work down to 16sec.
Pioneer, when I coached at the high school level I actually took a day and timed my athletes covering the distance on grass at a relaxed, yet full speed effort. By deriving percentages from those numbers I obviated any guesswork that would have otherwise been necessary in the conversion process from track times.
So you had 100 athletes all running different tempo times. Goodluck with that.
They all ran the tempo sessions at once and I would call out the times as they neared the finish. After a few runs they would settle in to their respective paces. Worked well.
12.1sec PB + 25% = 15.1
11.5sec PB + 25% = 14.4
11sec PB + 25% = 13.8sec
I think you get the picture. Your looking at around Half a sec diff in tempo time for Half sec faster PB When running tempo - So long as that 12.1sec runner isnt running 13sec or low 14 he will be fine.
If he knocks out the odd 14.5 but most are around 15, again, he will be fine.
For the 12sec guy, i would be looking at a range of roughly 15sec - 16.5sec. Like RB34 says, do some push ups, burpees, sit ups, dips, squats, split squats or whatever in-between runs, or every few runs.
Or you could say to some - run faster than a jog, but deff slower than a 400m run. Or tell them, 800m pace.
We use them Wooden log Fences, we run to one, do some jumps over them (holding the log with your hands) or some push ups on them, or dips, then run 50m back where we might do squats, or burpees or something, then repeat but back to the 2nd log, then 3rd log and so on till they are done.
You just need to watch the volume. Doing it this way, it tires the heart out a bit if your run fast and forces one to slow down if they have a tendency to run tempo too fast.
Someone with an 11 second personal best running tempo in under 14 seconds? Good luck with that. What kind of athletes have you been coaching, bold?
Its still 75% - normally due to a much more relaxed start your looking closer to 15sec, but with a rolling start sure, 14sec is easy.
Mind you, guys i had who were 22-23sec 200m shape, we had running 30-32sec tempo, but naturally the odd 27-28sec was popped out, which didn’t really matter so long as most were 30+.
22sec + 25% = 27.5sec. So easy really.
We never bother really timing 100’s - you can tell as a coach if somebody is going too fast with Just your eyes. Esp with Body weight exercises thrown in, that will typically drop the pace to 15-17sec per 100m. EASY. Hard workout, but EASY to recover from.
Im not coaching Sprinters for the last couple of years - but it looks like im moving town in a short while, and plane on looking for Sprinters when i do move. Currently coaching General Population for fitness, weight loss and Figure.
When i have coached sprints - normally high school (then they moved to the big city for uni) and guys were typical 10.65 - 11.20 shape after 6months, By year 11/12 that is. FAT times.
The issue is with the math. If you want the times to be 65%-75% of their PB, you need to add 54% to 33% of their PBs back on, not 25%.
For an 11 second runner, this is 14.7 at 75%, and 16.9 at 65%.
Exactly… Come on Bold, bad math…
I think he meant add 25% to CF 65-75%, so 11sec at 75% = 14.7 +25%= 18sec.
What? Please explain
75% off max speed
100% = PB - lets say 10sec
50% off 10sec = 5sec. 5sec + 10sec = 15sec
75% off 10sec = 2.5sec. add your 10sec = 12.5sec
The diff between 75% and 100% is 25%.
What we are not doing is
10sec = 0%
50% = 5sec + 10sec = 15sec (this is the same)
75% = 7.5sec + 10sec = 7.5sec
100% = 10sec, + 10sec = 20sec.
which still isnt what your talking about. Perhaps iv been working too hard in the Sun today!
yes, too much working in the heat today - now you have totally lost me…
What you don’t get?? We are trying to figure out your horrible math… Take the athlete PB and divide by the % you want them to run.
PB in 100m: 11sec
Tempo %: 75
11 divide by .75 = 14.6sec
There is No correct time overall. that is the issue. Temperature, previous workout, time of year, field condition, personal load all play a role. If you can’t be there to supervise, you can’t simply pick a time to make up for it. Tempo times must be flexible enough to adjust for high intensity demand.
Thank you Charlie and if you must use a time, lean towards the right while adding bw drills.
Latiff Thomas highly recommends assigning and timing everything.
Correct…
Right, considering where you’re from, that’s a boldface lie about the times. Regardless though, anybody who has actually worked with someone who is in 11.0fat shape knows that anything approximating 14flat (let alone faster than that) is way too fast for extensive tempo. In fact, I’d question how much volume you could be doing below 15 seconds/100m if you are doing all of the runs on grass and with relatively short (<60seconds) rest between reps. My PR is below 11.0fat and I’ve trained with people who have run substantially faster than that and I am fairly certain none were approximating those kind of speeds for extensive tempo (finish the way you start with incomplete rests and not going too hard), especially when done on softer surfaces.