Wednesday 1 December 2010

Speed Interval Training

Speed interval training is a very easy to set up and a simple, quick training method. The warm up would raise the body temperature but because it was a sprinting session we would have to warm up the quick twitch muscles which would involve short sprints, high knees, heel flicks and other fast moving worm ups.Also when we stretched it was dynamic stretching instead of static stretching such as walking lunges, walking cath stretch ect.
   After thee warm up we would move on to the exercise itself. We would put out a cone on 10m, 20m and 30m. First we would sprint to the 10m cone and walk back, as soon as we got back we would sprint again. We did this three times for each cone and it got harder with each cone because it was further away so we were overloading our muscles so the would get bigger and fitter. This training session was good because allot of people do it and it was quite short. One problem I found was that it would get tedious after a few training sessions where as circuit training has much more variety. A friend told me that, "all runners are lazy," what she meant by this was that the training session was short and sharp and that sprint training isnt as hard as other training sessions.