Ways to improve my 400m time?

When I want to improve on my speed I run shorter intervals, and a lot of them, as fast as I can.

Some workouts to consider

20 x 100s (jog the turns)

16 x 200s

12 x 400s

all in all, your a freshman and over time you will see improvement if you work hard all your years of high school.

maxg9 wrote:

When I want to improve on my speed I run shorter intervals, and a lot of them, as fast as I can.

Some workouts to consider

20 x 100s (jog the turns)

16 x 200s

12 x 400s

all in all, your a freshman and over time you will see improvement if you work hard all your years of high school.

I don't know what this guy is smoking, but don't do any of those workouts, especially not all out. 0/10.

Keep going to practice, and you'll see development. Start lifting, especially in the summer. Do pure speed intervals as well, stuff like 60m reps all out with full recovery breaks. Research more on sprinting, it will be a whole lot more valuable than what we can give you in thread comment.

heynow uranallstar wrote:

maxg9 wrote:

When I want to improve on my speed I run shorter intervals, and a lot of them, as fast as I can.

Some workouts to consider

20 x 100s (jog the turns)

16 x 200s

12 x 400s

all in all, your a freshman and over time you will see improvement if you work hard all your years of high school.

I don't know what this guy is smoking, but don't do any of those workouts, especially not all out. 0/10.

Keep going to practice, and you'll see development. Start lifting, especially in the summer. Do pure speed intervals as well, stuff like 60m reps all out with full recovery breaks. Research more on sprinting, it will be a whole lot more valuable than what we can give you in thread comment.

+1

The 20x100, 16x200, 12x400s are good workouts...for distance runners.

maxg9 wrote:

When I want to improve on my speed I run shorter intervals, and a lot of them, as fast as I can.

Some workouts to consider

20 x 100s (jog the turns)

16 x 200s

12 x 400s

all in all, your a freshman and over time you will see improvement if you work hard all your years of high school.

This is the worst advice I have seen for somebody interested in improving speed. It is absolutely a troll post.

As the subsequent poster said, do 50-60m reps with plenty of rest in between for training the alactic system. Other workouts with either longer reps and/or shorter rest help train speed endurance and special endurance types 1 and 2. Please do not listen to the poster above though. It will do nothing for your speed, and do NOT jog anything between your reps.