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It seems like a silly question right?
But when you think about it, as we get older and stop playing competitive sports, the need to ever sprint as fast as you can is limited to chasing the bus, or running from the local ice addict (or Vanilla Ice music).
I had to ask this question of myself when I recently participated in a boot camp.
Now as you probably know I’ve been running boot camps for a long time, but I hadn’t participated in one myself in about 5 years…about the same time since I had to stop playing rugby league.
So that was the answer….IT HAD BEEN 5 YEARS SINCE I HAD SPRINTED!
In the same time I had lost some of my tone, but fortunately not as much as Arnie has let himself go.
I have to be honest….sprinting again after 5 years meant I was quite sore, make that friggen sore, after each boot camp session.
But after sticking to it for 6 weeks, I am now in the best fitness and shape I have been in a very long time, and all because of sprinting.
My training partner for long distance running is now struggling to keep up.
How you can build sprinting into your training
This is really easy…just go outside and sprint as fast as you can until you can’t anymore.
Well there are some better ways than that, for starters then you have to turn around and walk back.
During your normal distance jog
Hill sprints / stair sprints
Till next month,
Chris
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But when you think about it, as we get older and stop playing competitive sports, the need to ever sprint as fast as you can is limited to chasing the bus, or running from the local ice addict (or Vanilla Ice music).
I had to ask this question of myself when I recently participated in a boot camp.
Now as you probably know I’ve been running boot camps for a long time, but I hadn’t participated in one myself in about 5 years…about the same time since I had to stop playing rugby league.
So that was the answer….IT HAD BEEN 5 YEARS SINCE I HAD SPRINTED!
In the same time I had lost some of my tone, but fortunately not as much as Arnie has let himself go.
I have to be honest….sprinting again after 5 years meant I was quite sore, make that friggen sore, after each boot camp session.
But after sticking to it for 6 weeks, I am now in the best fitness and shape I have been in a very long time, and all because of sprinting.
My training partner for long distance running is now struggling to keep up.
How you can build sprinting into your training
This is really easy…just go outside and sprint as fast as you can until you can’t anymore.
Well there are some better ways than that, for starters then you have to turn around and walk back.
During your normal distance jog
- Pick a spot approximately 50 - 100 metres ahead (telegraph poles are good)
- Sprint as fast as you can to it
- Return to your normal pace
- Repeat this every 2 minutes for the length of your run.
- Put four markers in a line 10 metres apart
- Sprint to the first marker
- Touch the ground with your hand
- Sprint back to the start
- Repeat for the rest of the markers
Hill sprints / stair sprints
- This is easy just find a hill or flight of stairs and sprint up it, then walk down
- Repeat.
- For hills, lift your knees up as high as possible.
- For stairs vary between doing two stairs and one stair at a time.
- These change ups will improve you power and cadence (foot speed) respectively.
Till next month,
Chris
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