Sounds a bit much. Warming up before a workout, yes. This seems excessive though.
Sounds a bit much. Warming up before a workout, yes. This seems excessive though.
Hey, just know that runners faster than you are doing this type of warmup. I’ll put it like that.
The Ethiopians do tons of drills before their main sessions every day and it doesn’t hurt them. I think they get some improvement in their overall running performance from doing these drills but how much improvement is difficult to know.
My warm up is 15 minutes jog including a few drills that are done on the run (butt kicks, skips, toe walks) and strides, nothing that requires me to stop running. My club coach insists they are for form more than anything else. I don't know if they help but when I'm tiring at the end of long race I try and focus on those things to take my mind off the pain
34hrf9h wrote:
Sounds a bit much. Warming up before a workout, yes. This seems excessive though.
Yes it does sound excessive but it's clear the OP is just exaggerating because all he wants to do is go out and run. He's running with 14-min runners and he thinks the coach is too serious !!!
No chance of any reply on here being enough to persuade him to join in. He just wants to kvetch.
His loss. His natural talent will get him so far. Then the narrow-minded attitude will prevent him finding out how to go further.
British Guy wrote:
I'm running under a new coach recently who is great, but he takes running WAY too seriously. He tries to get us warming up almost an hour before sessions (which I consistently ignore) doing 20+ minute jog then 15+ minutes of drills before a bunch of long strides. I see people doing all these knees up, heel flicks, all sorts of exercises, some of which I'd never even seen in my life before I joined the group.
All of this even before a tempo run where we'll be running at 10K-Half Marathon pace. I've yet to bother with any of these drills, but then once the session begins I'll end up running with them at the same pace as we're around the same ability level (Mid-high 14's guys). I really cannot see how they gain anything from doing all these fancy looking drills. Is there any logic behind this whatsoever?
Warmups like ABC's and vertical jumps may have some value before track sessions, but seem silly IMHO before road races and, it follows, tempos. The only folks I've seen do them were HS or Collegiate Track Rats.
High hopes wrote:
My warm up is 15 minutes jog including a few drills that are done on the run (butt kicks, skips, toe walks) and strides, nothing that requires me to stop running. My club coach insists they are for form more than anything else. I don't know if they help but when I'm tiring at the end of long race I try and focus on those things to take my mind off the pain
The best thing for improved form in long-distance running is sustained higher mileage.
True, if you're tired your form/economy degrades and you can reduce that through conscious effort... relaxing your hands and shoulders... keeping your head up. Other than that, better form is mostly found, not learned.
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