my coach is now REQUIRING all team members to run with ankel weights on

I feel your pain man. It's f*cking stupid. Our coach often makes us run with 20lbs weight vests, and new this year has required that all members wear arm floaties on any non-track workout run.

Fvcking stupid coaches

My coach had us run 400m repeats while carrying a teammate on our back.

Our rest period was when we switched off and were being carried.

Rick Ank(i)el?

How was the John Wayne Marathon sleepover?

good. coach dressed up like john wayne and slept in his john wayne underwear.

these track workouts with ankel weights are getting unbearable. we are required to wear the 5 pound weighs.

5/10

believe it or not, science and results have proven ankel weights are actually really good for your running form.

I hear that ankle weights are the key to the success of Alberto Salazar's athletes, and I think they should be banned as performance enhancing.

A Critique wrote:

I hear that ankle weights are the key to the success of Alberto Salazar's athletes, and I think they should be banned as performance enhancing.

I've read interviews with Kenyans where they described feeling benefits from running in heavy trainers, and letting the heavy mud from their dirt roads caking on the bottom of their shoes and effectively serving as ankle weights.

I'd go to practice without them.

Do your own thing.

If he kicks you off then that's his issue not yours.

So if I trained for a marathon on a track with "ankel" weights, I could possibly get lapped and still come back for the win?

My coach had us use a barbell where we'd rack in the front squat position and then do a front squat followed directly into a push press. Then we'd do pull-ups.

Oddly, everyone immediately set PRs shortly after this.

0/10

'what a weird coach' has started numerous threads with absurd things like this. Once caught as a troll, you cannot continue under the same name if you want to be taken seriously.

My daughter had a cross country coach that ruined her knees. How do this people even get jobs.

Believe it or not my high school coach made us run 400m reps carrying med balls over our head every week. Other workouts included 5km all out the day before an XC meet, and 2x800m all out the day before track meets.

How does mimicing fat ankles improve running time? Just stupid. I'd go with heavily weighted shoes (up to 50lbs) over ankle weights. No hill work with weighted shoes though, only flat surfaces.

what a weird coach wrote:

so my xc/track coach is now requiring that all members of the xc and track team run with ankel weights on at every practice. he also suggests that we wear them around school all day, but it is REQUIRED that we run with them during practice time. he says this will build strength in our legs and then when we race we wont have them on, and therefore we it will feel lighter and we will be faster. heres the sad part. any runner who shows up to practice without wearing ankel weights is immediately kicked off the team.

Is this the same guy who kicked runners off the team if he caught the eating deep dish pizza?

I ran a 4:20 mile solo off of 20 miles per week with ankle weights. No joke.

Celcius wrote:

Believe it or not my high school coach made us run 400m reps carrying med balls over our head every week. Other workouts included 5km all out the day before an XC meet, and 2x800m all out the day before track meets.

That's nothing. My coach made us do 800 meter repeats on broken glass without using our legs.