Hello, Average Sprinter here.
Can anyone make a sound argument that walking a few hours a day will/will not slow me down? I want to walk some dogs. I also want to stay fast these next few years.
Thank you.
Hello, Average Sprinter here.
Can anyone make a sound argument that walking a few hours a day will/will not slow me down? I want to walk some dogs. I also want to stay fast these next few years.
Thank you.
Average Sprinter wrote:
Hello, Average Sprinter here.
Can anyone make a sound argument that walking a few hours a day will/will not slow me down? I want to walk some dogs. I also want to stay fast these next few years.
Thank you.
Who has time to walk for hours a day? Get a job.
Oops, I thought "explosive" referred to constipatory concerns.
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doot doot wrote:
Who has time to walk for hours a day? Get a job.
I would be doing it for money.
You'll be fine.
If you walk a few hours a day, you'll get very good at walking for a few hours at a time. It certainly won't do any favors for your sprinting.
my bad wrote:
Oops, I thought "explosive" referred to constipatory concerns.
Not constipation, bucko...spontaneous combustion, maybe.
I read somewhere (maybe here) that some top japanese athletes do walk a lot. Its like recovery 30k walk for example. Of course this has to be on top of the max you can run train effeciently/effectively.
Shouldn't impact your muscle fibre ratio too much, unless your actually fatiguing yourself from walking.
Hey mon, walking dogs is a great way to pick up chicks, so now worries.
Just focus on stride frequency and it can actually help.
Try to walk explosively.
This will be like hiking which is good for you.
If you are talking about a job like caddying, this can be good for all sorts of things. You can get in tune with your legs muscle groups and work on different things while casually walking. If you are carrying clubs you want to be sure you're not relying on say only your right shoulder to do most of the grunt lifting. You want to treat it like weight training and evenly distribute the work load so one side of the body doesn't become stronger than the other. So trade off left and right arms.
How fast are you? You said "average sprinter," but is that average D1, high school, National Relay team member, ...
Walking 2-3 hours a day will cost you some speed, but not much. It'll be good for you in the long run though.