I often see coaches make their athletes run clockwise on the track in training. They’ve never been able to explain why or what it’s supposed to do. Is this just some old school “this us how we used to do it” training, or us there some actual science to it?
Track Hack wrote:
I often see coaches make their athletes run clockwise on the track in training. They’ve never been able to explain why or what it’s supposed to do. Is this just some old school “this us how we used to do it” training, or us there some actual science to it?
Balance
To practice right turning maybe? I honestly don't know, but my best guess is that too many left turns could be a bad thing in track?
Let’s say your workout is 8x1600 on a standard 200m indoor track. All those left turns are hard on the hips and knees.
Reverse direction.
It's just simple bio-mechanics. All the continued leaning to the left can cause imbalances and lead to injuries.
To counter act all this directional strain, you run the opposite way around the track and it is mitigated.