Thursday 10 August 2006: SPRINTING


SPRINTING

Today's workout is the now familiar "30/90 Sprint."

Advanced:
  • Run 5 minutes
  • Repeat five times:
    Sprint 30 seconds, Rest 90 seconds
  • Run 5 minutes

Intermediate:

  • Run/Run-walk 5 minutes
  • Repeat five times:
    Sprint 30 seconds, Rest 90 seconds
  • Run/Run-walk 5 minutes

Basic:

  • Powerwalk 5 minutes
  • Repeat five times:
    Sprint 15 seconds, Rest 105 seconds
  • Powerwalk 5 minutes

I recommend using a progressive sprint pattern. Sprint 1 would peak at 70% of maximum, sprint 2 at 80%, sprint 3 at 90%, and sprints 4-5 would be 100% efforts. Remember that max speed for a 30 second sprint is different than the speed for a 6 second sprint! Hydrate well, and avoid running these sprints in the heat of the day.

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For those who may be interested, here is information on a study demonstrating the superiority of 30 second sprints over 6 second sprints in stimulating the natural production of human growth hormone.

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/phil3.htm

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12137178&dopt=Abstract

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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous10 August, 2006 01:13

    Thanks for those references on sprinting and HGH

    Chris

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  2. Anonymous10 August, 2006 06:27

    Great site and good references on sprinting, Clarence Bass (Ripped) also has some useful information on the subject.

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  3. JME10 August, 2006 08:10

    Done as Rx'ed.

    I like Bass's site. He does have a lot of useful info archived on it. We'll probably be linking to some of his references on sprinting (particularly the Tabata protocol) in the near future.

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  4. Anonymous10 August, 2006 15:01

    Done as RXed

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