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Why include sprint workouts in a training program focused on long distance?
With the exception of a track event, most everything else will have hills. I've heard hill repeats referred to as "speed work in disguise".
What they have in common is rather than the steady-state ...
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What is the maximum acceleration a human can generate? With which body part?
As far as I know, the fastest movements and possibly the biggest acceleration are due to eye saccades, that is rapid movements of the eye as it scans the environment. Those are involuntary and have to ...
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Why include sprint workouts in a training program focused on long distance?
Nowadays, most training plans for Marathons, includes both lots of LSR and later a fair bit of speed work. The common idea is to first build up your ability to run long distances on fat and later add ...
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How to do exercises properly?
In your previous question you say you're not sure if changing your diet is required...this couldn't be farther from the truth. If you want to maximize results, diet is by far the most important factor ...
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How to improve my speed?
A standard go-to for improving speed is wind sprints. Basically, you repeatedly go from 0 to as fast as you can and sustain it for a short distance, recover for a few minutes, then repeat. It develops ...
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Why am I unable to run as fast as I should be able to, based on my VO2max
VO2 max is the amount of oxygen available for energy burn and is associated with runs that are shorter than 5-8 minutes total. Anything longer than this your body must deal with lactate acid buildup ...
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Why am I unable to run as fast as I should be able to, based on my VO2max
VO2max is the amount of oxygen which your cells are able to convert into CO2. It doesn't say anything about the anaerobic threshold, for that you need to do a Conconi test (there are many variants of ...
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Will weight lifting affect speed and flexibility?
Will I gain weight by doing weightlifting?
Yes and no. Doing weight lifting will set the stimulus your body needs to grow (gain muscle mass), but lifting alone will be of no use. Imagine that your ...
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How does running speed correlate to burnt calories?
It would look like this:
It's basically a straight line. Don't take the variations from the straight line too seriously. There are so many other factors involved (wind, distance, running form, etc.) ...
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Does Active Flexibility Reduce Speed and Quickness?
If I am interpreting your question correctly, it boils down to something like
"If someone has a muscle that can be stretched further, would it have
less explosive potential?"
TLDR:
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What is a good time to row 10,000m on a Concept C2 rowing machine?
It's a bit difficult to give you a time to aim for if you are alternating between 500 hard / 500 easy. Work up to sustaining consistent effort over 10,000m on a setting 4 (good for giving you a ...
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Realistic best time for 5k?
i ve been building up my pace for 6 months, i started at 34 mins for 5k. i am 39 and weighed 217lb when i started. I read a lot of stuff from the web,(there is loads of it) took on board what i ...
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Average speed of the general population over uneven ground
For backpacking on trails we used these values:
1 mph, you're plodding around.
2 mph, you're walking at a leisurely pace
3 mph, you're walking at a "good pace"
4 mph, you're doing some serious hustle
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Training the twitch fibre muscles for faster punching and kicking
Lowering a weight slowly then explosively curling it is doing a "slow negative".
For fast punches and kicks you should be working on your basic barbell lifts: squat, deadlift, power clean, overhead ...
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Training the twitch fibre muscles for faster punching and kicking
I doubt if isometric exercises could improve punching speed – maybe you meant bodyweight exercises? Isometric exercises are ones where the muscle that's working is being held in a constant state of ...
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How to improve my speed?
Afaik, the whole "exercise stunts growth" idea is a myth, as long as you eat enough, lifting weights will not interfere with your growth.
Some people do weight lifting with explosiveness focus to ...
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Does exercises other than running help in improving the distance or speed of running?
If you are looking for ways to increase your speed at a given distance, I would suggest running over distance. We raced 5k, so we ran anywhere from 1.5x to 4x that distance. If that is a problem for ...
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How to do exercises properly?
You develop muscles during recovery.
Amount of recovery done depends on how much of your muscle has been broken down by the exercise.
Amount of muscle with micro-tears is directly a result of time-...
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Why include sprint workouts in a training program focused on long distance?
Your "steady" pace will get faster : the aim is to run faster for a longer time. It also makes running "slow" easy in comparison.
I ran my first half last year and only did 40-90 min steady runs for ...
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How can I improve my ability to do speedwork?
Long distance runners (anything above 800m) usually struggle with speed work because they don't take it correctly.
During speed work you must run fast. If you drop below your target in terms of speed ...
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How to improve teen's agility
As a parent of two athletic kids, this is my take.
At 13 there isn't much difference in types of exercises you'd do versus an adult. The big modifiers are volume and form. Kids actually recover ...
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Does running faster burn more calories?
Running speed is one of factor to burn calories. According to your scenario, I think running speed it worthy. However if you want to burn more calories from running. you should have to change a ...
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How does running speed correlate to burnt calories?
Short answer: the line on such a diagram would just be a straight horizontal line. Running faster does not significantly increase calories burned.
Long answer: A "calorie" in the context of food and ...
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Supplementary exercises to sprints
You could try plyometric weighted squats. Basically, jump squats, but with a weight on your back (or front if you prefer). I've found these to be excellent when trying to improve speed as you build a ...
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Supplementary exercises to sprints
Based on personal experience, the big lifts do help a lot.
Squats and deadlifts followed by a plyometric superset (e.g. vertical jump, or broad jumps) - the key here being not training to failure, ...
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How do you use a heart rate monitor for track workouts and speed work?
It means that, for example:
If resting heart rate is 50bpm and VO2 Max HR is 200 bpm (easy numbers), then your 'working heart rate' for the majority of your speed work should be 90% of your VO2 ...
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What is a good training pace vs a recent race pace?
Endurance racing such as 5k and longer is all about putting in the base and the time. 19.30 is a respectable time, so you've got something good to build on.
So lets break this down. I'm assuming that ...
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How come I don't look fit?
As @xCodeZone mentioned, looking "ripped" is essentially synonymous with having a low body fat percentage.
Despite your "worked out for five years", you may yet be able to benefit from the novice ...
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Is it possible to maintain or improve as a runner doing mostly races?
What you are essentially describing is a typical high school cross country season. Our typical in season weeks consisted of the following:
Sunday - Off or easy short run
Monday - Shorter run, fartlek/...
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