I have recently decided to start my sprinting "career" but I am new to it. What dry land workouts, particularly in the weight room, would be good for me to do? What about the number of sets and reps? In addition, what core exercises do you do and how often? Any help is greatly appreciated.
I just started doing a dryland routine (last time I did one was about 8 years ago) last night--while I'm not a true sprinter, I do focus on the shorter events (200 on down), so I think the exercises I do would probably be comparable to what you'd want to do as a sprinter. Here's part of the routine I did last night. I don't have the whole workout on hand, but this is a good portion of it.
Abs/core
Crunches with feet on the ground
Crunches with feet in the air
Right obliques
Left obliques
Flutter kicks
Donkey kicks
Bridge
Plank
Legs
Squats
Calf raises
Lunges
Stair steps
Streamline squat jumps
Broad jumps
Side lunges
Wall sits
Upper body
Regular pushups
Wide grip pushups
Diamond pushups
Dive bombers
Arm circles with arms held out to the side
Facedown tricep raises
Rows
Dips
For each exercise, I did one set of 45 seconds on, 15 seconds off, just getting in as many reps as I could without hammering it so hard I crashed and burned. This was all bodyweight exercises with no weights, stretch cords, or medicine balls. I'm getting that stuff this coming weekend, so I'll be incorporating it into my workouts, but this group of exercises would serve as a great base for dryland training. In addition, I'm considering dropping some of the exercises from each section and dropping down to 6 or so per section, then doing three rounds of 30 seconds on, 15 seconds off for each exercise. Three rounds of abs, three of legs, and three of upper body.
I just started doing a dryland routine (last time I did one was about 8 years ago) last night--while I'm not a true sprinter, I do focus on the shorter events (200 on down), so I think the exercises I do would probably be comparable to what you'd want to do as a sprinter. Here's part of the routine I did last night. I don't have the whole workout on hand, but this is a good portion of it.
Abs/core
Crunches with feet on the ground
Crunches with feet in the air
Right obliques
Left obliques
Flutter kicks
Donkey kicks
Bridge
Plank
Legs
Squats
Calf raises
Lunges
Stair steps
Streamline squat jumps
Broad jumps
Side lunges
Wall sits
Upper body
Regular pushups
Wide grip pushups
Diamond pushups
Dive bombers
Arm circles with arms held out to the side
Facedown tricep raises
Rows
Dips
For each exercise, I did one set of 45 seconds on, 15 seconds off, just getting in as many reps as I could without hammering it so hard I crashed and burned. This was all bodyweight exercises with no weights, stretch cords, or medicine balls. I'm getting that stuff this coming weekend, so I'll be incorporating it into my workouts, but this group of exercises would serve as a great base for dryland training. In addition, I'm considering dropping some of the exercises from each section and dropping down to 6 or so per section, then doing three rounds of 30 seconds on, 15 seconds off for each exercise. Three rounds of abs, three of legs, and three of upper body.