Is this a good workout?

Physiologically no, psychologically Could be.

Coach wrote:

Physiologically no, psychologically Could be.

Please explain, thank you.

I think it could be good. I think it would be good for cross country as you need some more power, in addition you need more mental toughness. For track I don't think it would be great but would probably help for 800-1500 a bit.

It's a good workout for football players, mainly recievers and RB's obviously; it gives them speed endurance that's specific to their sport. However, for a track runner I don't see it doing any good. The volume is too high and the rest too low for it to be a pure sprint workout. To tailor this workout sprinters (and distance runners working on speed in the offseason), I would cut the volume in half, and increase rest to 2-3 minutes between reps.

Common sense much?? wrote:

It's a good workout for football players, mainly recievers and RB's obviously; it gives them speed endurance that's specific to their sport. However, for a track runner I don't see it doing any good. The volume is too high and the rest too low for it to be a pure sprint workout. To tailor this workout sprinters (and distance runners working on speed in the offseason), I would cut the volume in half, and increase rest to 2-3 minutes between reps.

Yes I tend to agree. However Lydiard did have his athletes do

repetitions of the track with sprint 50, jog 50, repeat for like 2 miles. So this is somewhat similar and is a requirement for distance runners. It is more of a sharpening type workout for the end of the season.

Due to the high reps and low rest, this is more of an aerobic than an aerobic workout - not good for maximum speed (alactic) or speed endurance (predominantly glycolytic). For football players, it is likely called "conditioning." Is this a good running workout? The answer is no.

RunSprintRun wrote:

Due to the high reps and low rest, this is more of an aerobic than an aerobic workout - not good for maximum speed (alactic) or speed endurance (predominantly glycolytic). For football players, it is likely called "conditioning." Is this a good running workout? The answer is no.

My xc coach calls it conditioning too!

RunSprintRun wrote:

Due to the high reps and low rest, this is more of an aerobic than an aerobic workout - not good for maximum speed (alactic) or speed endurance (predominantly glycolytic). For football players, it is likely called "conditioning." Is this a good running workout? The answer is no.

...than anaerobic...sorry for error.

Draymond Green wrote:

[quote]Coach wrote:

Physiologically no, psychologically Could be.

Please explain, thank you.

The others gave great explanations why it's not a sound workout if the intent is to gain speed. There's no way you can gain speed with so little rest. you're just getting tough, nothing wrong with that if that's what you need or want.

Coach wrote:

Draymond Green wrote:

[quote]Coach wrote:

Physiologically no, psychologically Could be.

Please explain, thank you.

The others gave great explanations why it's not a sound workout if the intent is to gain speed. There's no way you can gain speed with so little rest. you're just getting tough, nothing wrong with that if that's what you need or want.

The xc coach makes us do the sprint workout with little rest 2x a week with the football strength and conditioning coach.

Draymond Green wrote:

Coach wrote:

The others gave great explanations why it's not a sound workout if the intent is to gain speed. There's no way you can gain speed with so little rest. you're just getting tough, nothing wrong with that if that's what you need or want.

The xc coach makes us do the sprint workout with little rest 2x a week with the football strength and conditioning coach.

And says that it will keep us injury free.

Draymond, I think you should be concentrating on plyos to give you the explosive power necessary to kick opposing players in the nuts.

If you can answer why it was good for you it was good! :)

Igloi.

Yes.

Hurl wrote:

Igloi.

Yes.

What?

Draymond Green wrote:

20x40m sprints (all out) with 15-30 second rest between reps and 3 minute rest after 10 reps.

Workout completed with football players.

Weights with football players after running workout.

To be honest, with that rest I don't think any sprints past the first few will be at max speed, more like max effort

If you want to work on your max speed, you are much better to do 6-10x60 meters with a lot of rest, like 5 minutes, and go max speed each time. I also suggest a slight uphill, since it reduces injury risk

Hurl wrote:

Igloi.

Yes.

Igloo did nothing like this. This is not an example of his interval method

Coach wrote:

Hurl wrote:

Igloi.

Yes.

Igloo did nothing like this. This is not an example of his interval method

Igloi supposedly had hundreds of workouts. Do you know them all?

one of many wrote:

Coach wrote:

Igloo did nothing like this. This is not an example of his interval method

Igloi supposedly had hundreds of workouts. Do you know them all?

No but Igloi used terms such as "fresh," "good," and "hard," with hard still not being all out.