(12) 50 yard sprints
(6) 100 yard sprints
(4) 200 yard sprints
(2) 400 yard sprints
Complete all as fast as possible, try to keep rest to a minimum.33:45
Comments: Absolutely foul weather. Tipping down with very strong winds. Just before I went out though I was watching a documentry about Hannibal. I figured if Hannibal could take 26,000 troops and loads of fuckin' elephants across the Alps, then the least I could do was get off my arse and go and do a bit of running!
So powered by the bacon and egg soda I had eaten earlier, out I went.
I was a bit confused about how to approach it though. Sprints as fast as possible. The way to cover that distance as fast as possible is to set off at a pace I could keep up for about 20 minutes. If I set off sprinting with little rest I knew I'd soon be down to a crawl.
If the goal was to improve sprinting then I knew I wanted to follow a piece of advice from my running days. Make sure your last sprint is as strong as the first. Take the rest you need and bang them out at 100%.
I compromised a bit though by going again once my heart rate dropped back down to 150bpms. It's a lot of sprints, so while my breathing was back to a decent level I felt less and less power from my legs as the session went on. The ghost of Hannibal and his elephant on my back.
All in all though it was a good session and I finished it quite strong .
3 comments:
If you haven't done much sprinting in awhile you should probable be prepared for some DOMS .. thems a ton of sprints.
Staying away from the bells, barbells and dumbbells for awhile is great especially with the intense type of training you have replaced it with. When you go back you are going to kick butt!
Have you fallen off the wagon? Or maybe the sprints killed you? Hope all is well...
Sprints were indeed rough...but still on the wagon.
Signing off from the blog for a while. Will still be around to encourage and harrang you guys though.
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