I used to do it this way in the past, and I liked it better than sprinting+weights. It seemed that lifting weights in the morning woke my body up better for afternoon sprinting.
Heavy weight in the morning, not a good idea in my opinion…the body is much less resistant to heavy weight in the morning, and the nervous system still sleep for some hours.
an example of that…
Reilly, Tynell, and Troup (1984) measured losses in sitting height over a day of up to 19mm. They also noted that approximately 54% of this loss occurred in the first 30 minutes after rising. A dam, Dolan, and Hutton (1987) noted that the range of lumbar flexion increased by 5-6 degree thoughout the day. The increased fluid content after rising from bed caused the lumbar spine to be more resistant to bending, while the musculature did not appear to compensate by restricting the bending range. Adam and colleagues estimated that disc-bending stresses were increased by 300% and ligament stresses by 80% on the morning compared to the evening; they concluded that there is an increased risk of injury to these tissues when bending forward early in the morning.
I used to hate mornings, period
Could only ever train in the evenings
Now - i love mornings, and now train mornings.
If i leave my training till late in the day/evening, i’m tired from a big day.
Mornings are deff the way to go for me nowdays.
put priorities first which in sprinting is sprinting. also sprinting before weights is better as you are fresher and will get better results. i just cant see the point in doing weights then sprinting second
thoughts?
What I used, Upper body in gym, lower body on the track.
AM. 10 minute run before weights, weights approx 80% bodyweight, max 5 exercises, 30 reps per exercise.
8 hour break
PM. 5 minute run before speed, max distance 60m, max total distance 600m, full recovery between runs.
double post
I’ve done it in the past with success, I find that lifting early in the AM is much easier than sprinting at the same time.
Bolt has been doing weights first…
I was going to say the same thing twhite said. Bolt does weights real early in the AM, albeit seemingly relatively light, and the track in the late afternoon. I’ve never tried.
Trey Hardee also lifts in the AM.
I was going to say the same thing twhite said. Bolt does weights real early in the AM, albeit seemingly relatively light, and the track in the late afternoon. I’ve never tried.
Trey Hardee also lifts in the AM.
Bolt does this, Gay does that -what’s the relevance to Silencer23 posting the question, if anyone knows anything about him? I don’t get it… Anyway, things are not exactly written on paper for non-professional guys (well, they are not for anyone…). So, if lifestyle forces someone to miss weights altogether after sprinting, then you have to do something about it. If the gap is appropriate between morning and evening sessions, morning weights is an option. As already posted by Silencer23 this poses an energy resources question and being aware of this is important! Ultimately though whether this format and/or the details of the morning session suit the athlete will be evident on the track. Feel free to try it, if you have to and if it fits your overall plan of the season (e.g., SPP goals in order to reap benefits later), but not for the sake of just doing double sessions, of course.
Silencer23, if there is no other way for you to do this then that’s fine. Optimally you should do your speed first, but if you have 8-9 hours in between, and you’re eating immediately after weights and keeping hydrated, then you should still be able to do quality speed work in the pm. If you’re finding it is having a negative impact on your speed work but you still feel like you need to do weights in the am, change them up (do less).
I’d like to know though, can you sprint in the am and do weights in the pm? Can you sprint AND then do weights right after your speed work?
What stimulus effect do you think you are getting exactly, and are the resources you are “stealing” from your evening session going to hurt your performance in the evening? Speed is very, very delicate. If you’re lifting heavy in the morning, then there is a good chance you are not going to run your fastest in the evening.
Sady, 30 reps per exercise? Are you a marathoner or a sprinter? Whether you lift lower or upper body in the morning, the effect will be the same on the speed in the evening.
what do you and others classify as morning? There is a hell of a difference between training at 6am and getting up at 7am then training at 11am.
Herb great to see you on here again. Its been a good while. Not to Hijack the thread but I have a question with regards to weights after speed. Im currently in the last week (week 7) of my GPP on a S-to-L programme. With training after work, time can be quite restricted. Is there anything wrong with missing the odd weights session in the SPP? If it becomes a problem can EMS on a partiular setting be used in replacement (if so…what setting/programme). Or do you take the approach that a missed session here or there wont be harmful? Thanks in advance.
The advantage of CF approach is that you know how tired you are from the sprinting and can adjust the weight load accordingly. The John Smith approach obviously works (Marion as well as Ato, Mo, Jet, etc) but the weights are normally in the hypertrophy range with JS. If you lift hard, then sprint hard, it is very easy for your CNS to get cooked.
If you’ve seen Bolt’s weight program, you know how he could get way with it.
JasonUK, in one of his DVDs Charlie says that during SPP (and MxS in the gym) and because plans can change for various reasons, it’s better to have in mind an appropriate target and key sessions towards this target that you need to execute rather than a specific timing these should be performed (e.g., after each track session). I hope it helps.
For me a missed session is missed and can’t be made up for. I haven’t used EMS but I believe in one of Charlie’s books or DVDs, maybe the Vancouver seminar he talks about when and where it fits in (I think GPP). It isn’t a replacement for weights by any means. It’s a passive way to work the muscles (bypasses the CNS as far as I know).
There is nothing wrong with missing a weights session here and there. What you don’t want is to miss too many and then have to re-adapt to the stimulus. That is the beauty of Vertical Integration: it removes a lot of that phase to phase adaptation “down time” that is characteristic of classical periodization.
6am starts mostly. I do my tempo based work as part of my Outdoor fitness group training i run.
My track work is not till later - busy with clients before then. wake up at 5am, weights done by 9am, at the track around 9:30am.
Weights is only Bench presses - On Outdoor fitness days it’s body weight legs, push ups, dips etc.
Sprints coach, The 3rd athlete I coached that won a national title moved to the same coach that the last athlete I coached to win a national title did, 20 years apart. Relevance not much.
A question was asked and I simply answered. By morning I mean finishing before 7.00am, the reason for a split session with a total daily time frame of 1.5 hours was simply because the athletes had to work. I presume you must have tried the split sessions to come to the conclusion that “” the effect will be the same on the speed in the evening". I beg to differ. What I found was the resting am heart rate was lower and more consistant. Cheers.
how would lifting after sprinting be any different than sprinting after lifting? In a sense that: why lift less than your best-- becasue you’re tired from sprinting… Is it just to wear yourself out?
If your not improving in the gym, nor are you even maintaining,… then you are simply wearing yourself out.
Sady, I apologize. I misread your post as being 30reps per set instead of 30 reps total. Please forgive my snarkiness. I should know better than to post after midnight. 