Weights and Intensive tempo sessions do not appear do be very complementry. Should/ can weights be done after Intensive tempo sessions? Is there a significant drop-off in gym numbers?
Thanks.
If you are going to do intensive tempo, and you are going to do weights on the same day, then you would want the weights to be done first to get the maximum benefit.
Weights first? Wasn’t expecting that! Given such a recommendation what adjustments would be neccesary to make to weights volume and intensity?
As far as weights, you would need to make sure you are warm before starting the actual set/rep scheme set up for the lifts, since typically sprinters are warm from the track when going in the weight room.
I personally dont use intensive tempo, but was put through the ringer with this type of workout as an athlete. From experience, I never had any pop in the weights after such a workout since the intensive tempo was too exhausting to give me just a sense of being warm and loose. Basically I needed to recover from my recovery workout!!!
dlive,
thank you for the replies. I, too, have never combined weights and intensive tempo for the reasons you have listed. Just teasing out how weights may be combined with intensive tempo during a brief period of their inclusion in a program.
I think they can go well together in certain phases. For example you wouldn’t ever do intensive tempo and then max strength, but you may do intensive tempo before an AA phase type weight workout.
This fits together well when you think about it. By the time you are into max strength your intensive tempo is not the same focus any more and you can move to something like acceleration development plus max strength for the day’s theme. You may then be down to one intensive tempo session per week and this may be complimentary with say, your upper body day.