DUMBEST workout you’ve done

Short sprints after not doing it all year 100-400m. Hamstrings sore when states were within a few days.

I did negatives in the gym of the quad machine, i.e., lifting more than I could hold with one leg with both and fighting the drop slowly with one leg. A decently long workout of this left me very sore and probably stressed my knees a very dangerous amount.

Hard to think of bad running workouts. My track coach in 9th tried to have every athlete on the track team, even field athletes, do 200s as pretty much the only workout all season.

In HS I did a fartlek of 13 x 2 min at 3k pace 1 min slow jog... To make things worse, it was maybe 5-6 weeks into my base training... I was dumb in HS. That was an insane workout, and one that I would never dare attempt again regardless of what point in the season I'm at.

We used to do 400m repeats running backwards.

Trying racewalking was the number 1 most stupid thing I've ever done athletically.

Ran up and down a mountain 5 times. Mountain repeats. 40ish min up. 20 ish down. 5 hour workout. I was running. 5k’s at the time. Seemed like a good idea. I never did the math prior to the workout nor did my friend that did it with me. We were lie dumb and dumber

Wasn’t my doing. In HS junior year a new head Football coach comes in right after season so we hadn’t been lifting since August, it’s now November. He tells us that we’re slow and weak and he’s turning the program around. Day 1 we go in and do a 90 minute all lower body workout - squats, sldl, regular deadlifts, lunges, box jumps, leg extensions, leg curls, etc and we did it as a circuit at least 3x maybe more, very little to no rest. I couldn’t walk for two days, didn’t go to school for one or both of those days. I’m pretty sure there was some muscle breakdown there. The most sore I’ve ever been in my life and for the longest. It took something like 7-10 days to get all the soreness out. I didn’t know you could be sore that long.

12 miles with 10 miles at MP at lunch, then the same in the evening. Bombed the marathon 3 1/2 weeks later.

400 x 400 on the local junior college track...with zero recovery between each...100 miles in

16 hours and 40 minutes...circa 1992...did I mention that it was 38 degrees and raining?

for an entire season, our coach only had us running 200m repeats on hard days. They would have either 400m or 600m jog in between. Same coach also once had us do 30m sprint with 370m walk in between. btw, we were all distance athletes.

Not mine, but a college team-mate said in HS his team once did 110 x 110(yds)

my freshman and sophomore year our xc coach had us do 2 miles of 100s at 5k pace with 3 min rest every day accept Fridays where we would do 10 slightly faster 100s. Our warmups and cooldowns were 10 push-ups, 10 setups stand up touch your toes followed by 20 meters of high knees and buttkicks.

My school was stupid and only let a coach, coach one sport, at lest we had a good distance coach for track, she went behind the xc coache's back and gave us workouts to do after xc practice

That is insanity. You should have sued for malpractice. Really, where do coaches get off proving how big their b@lls are, using the bodies of their athletes?

I once trained for three hours while fasting. To my surprise I found I couldn’t recover. I was so ignorant!

My club XC coach made us do 50 meter sprint repeats on the track in preparation for the 6k/8k.

Trying to be like Ritz and running the same mileage as the numbers he was reporting.

I opened up in January indoor beating a group of collegiate runners. After the January win my weekly increases were: 95 miles, 102 miles, 108 miles. Plus, I was doing 25 minute continuous swims before heading up to the weight room. I was in really, really phenomenal shape.

Then one day my body broke down and I was diagnosed with mono. Eyelids puffed up like crazy. I was out for two months and only experienced moderate levels of success as a senior. One local college coach I respected a lot told me later that I wanted it too badly and was being impatient.

Star wrote:

We used to do 400m repeats running backwards.

I remember going to do hill repeats in HS XC once and our coach asked us to pick a number 1-5. Someone said 3 and he said, "OK. Line up." On the 3rd rep he told us we had to do it backwards.

1 mile, (3 min, 2 min, 1 min) x 3 , 1 mile

All at 5k pace

Fkn wrecked. Easily the hardest dumbest thing I've ever done.

midpackgirl wrote:

My club XC coach made us do 50 meter sprint repeats on the track in preparation for the 6k/8k.

that's not dumb, i bet it was a sharpening workout before a goal race