Teammates belittle me for doing the workouts

"That's what your mom said"

Even if it makes no sense in context it is an appropriate comeback for anything your lazy teammates might come at you with,

protip: If one of your lazy teammates says something about your Mom counter with: "My Mom's dead".

This always works wrote:

"That's what your mom said"

Even if it makes no sense in context it is an appropriate comeback for anything your lazy teammates might come at you with,

protip: If one of your lazy teammates says something about your Mom counter with: "My Mom's dead".

Solid advice.

Say, "I always go the extra mile." Then a roundhouse air kick for affect.

They are lazy and you are making them look bad.

Five minutes extra of easy running reduces the risk of injury. Five minutes extra of body resistance training (sit-ups, pull-ups, etc) gives you extra strenght. Five minutes extra of hard running alone is just an egoboost thing - then again the placebo effect is real so why not do it for your self-confidence.

The best way to get others aboard is of course to help them join. I'd invite the girls to do five minutes of sit-ups with you and offer to hold their feet, but they must say the name of their favorite runner slash sports role model on top of every repetition (this adds something for them to think about before you all start and talk about afterwards - socializes the whole thing ever further).

Instead of just doing an extra 5-minutes easy on recovery days, do an extra 5:00 rep on Mile-repeat days.

Why are you doing an extra 5 minutes?

Why say anything? Eventually you realize the opinions of others matter very little.

Talk to your coach, and if he does nothing there are two reasonable scenarios.

1) If your in high schoo,l you're going to have to ride it out.

2) If your in college, transfer.

Is nobody gonna comment on how stupid this is? Seems like you are just doing what your coach tells you, plus an unnecessary 5 minutes just to feel like you're working harder. I can guarantee you're not the best runner on your team, and have an inferiority complex.

SmoochyWallace wrote:

Talk to your coach, and if he does nothing there are two reasonable scenarios.

1) If your in high schoo,l you're going to have to ride it out.

2) If your in college, transfer.

Let's hope "your" not an English major

not here wrote:

Why say anything? Eventually you realize the opinions of others matter very little.

^^Important life advice^^

Extra 5 minutes-----> x7 days per week---->35 min extra per week

35 extra minutes per week------->x4 weeks per month-----> 2 hours 40 minutes extra per month

Sally Weaver wrote:

Extra 5 minutes-----> x7 days per week---->35 min extra per week

35 extra minutes per week------->x4 weeks per month-----> 2 hours 40 minutes extra per month

First, the question was answered correctly above, other peoples' opinions do not matter.

Second, the principal of an extra 5 minutes isn't wrong. I would argue doing a variety of things that aren't *always* running with those extra 5 minutes is a smarter choice. For example, plain old push ups, core workouts, all kinds of variations on lunges.

take the million wrote:

They are lazy and you are making them look bad.

Yup. Remember-Darkness rejects light. Keep doing your thing, buddy.

Heallp wrote:

They put me down for doing an extra 5 minutes on easy runs and say that the extra 5 minute won't do anything for me. What do I say??

Tell them you're just screwing around, then keep doing it more.

SmoochyWallace wrote:

Talk to your coach, and if he does nothing there are two reasonable scenarios.

1) If your in high schoo,l you're going to have to ride it out.

2) If your in college, transfer.

Learn proper grammar.

What would your coach say about you running an extra 5 minutes? I have always have a few young athletes who want to overachieve by running more than I ask them to. They believe that I will be impressed or that I have underestimated them by giving them the mileage assignments that I have.

Some of those same athletes have reported to me that their "lazy" upperclassmen teammates are giving them a hard time about running too far.

I have to explain to them that those teammates are not lazy, but after a few years in the program they realize that a plan exists and that there is a reason I am asking them to run the mileage I've asked them to run. I ask those athletes to have faith in the plan and to run what I've asked.

On the other hand, I have also had the situation where a developing athlete surpasses established runners and the established runners try to hold them back. That tends to happen more in workouts when the established runner tells the up and comer that they are running harder than I would want them to than it does with amount of distance run, but I have seen that too.

If you are not sure which category you fall into, or maybe it's something else, I would have a conversation with your coach. He or she may ask you to not run that 5 extra minutes, or he might have your teammates on his radar if they are holding back your progress and the progress of the team.

It sounds like you have a hard time making friends . Offer a nice foot masssge to anyone who will join you . Believe me, you will make friends fast .