I just got back into masters after 8 years. I trained three times a week for a meet and did ok but was hurting at the end of 100's and now I feel like if I don't hit it 6 times a week I will not see much of an improvement if I don't hit it hard. I'm a sprinter and need some suggestions of how much should I be training and what's too much if this makes any sense??? Josh H
Josh,
I'm a drop dead sprinter that has experimented with training over 3 years. At the moment (always subject to further analysis) I've concluded that sprinters (or at least me) benefit from a mix of aerobic work, speed work, lactate work, & hard kicking. I've done more aerobic work in the last year or so and I think it's helped my 100s. As Kirk notes, even 30 minutes or 1000 yards of aerobic work per workout will help. I don't do any really crazy short rest stuff though. You even get some aerobic benefit from doing recovery swimming or a recovery set between harder speed sets.
Here's a thread I started awhile ago pondering this issue:
forums.usms.org/showthread.php
I'd also recommend looking at Jonathan Miller's "Fun & Fast" thread in the workout sections. Lots of good ideas for sprinters. Tall Paul has interesting workouts/sets too, though some are for the mid D type.
Josh,
I'm a drop dead sprinter that has experimented with training over 3 years. At the moment (always subject to further analysis) I've concluded that sprinters (or at least me) benefit from a mix of aerobic work, speed work, lactate work, & hard kicking. I've done more aerobic work in the last year or so and I think it's helped my 100s. As Kirk notes, even 30 minutes or 1000 yards of aerobic work per workout will help. I don't do any really crazy short rest stuff though. You even get some aerobic benefit from doing recovery swimming or a recovery set between harder speed sets.
Here's a thread I started awhile ago pondering this issue:
forums.usms.org/showthread.php
I'd also recommend looking at Jonathan Miller's "Fun & Fast" thread in the workout sections. Lots of good ideas for sprinters. Tall Paul has interesting workouts/sets too, though some are for the mid D type.
