Getting bored of my usual routines. Hit me up with you're favourite running training for footy.
Running/Fitness Favourite workouts
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Whats your usual routine?
HIIT rules.
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Thinking just running fitness for footy here gents. No periodisation. It's not that serious.
Mostly old school stuff. 400, 200, 100 repeats. Fartlek.
Couple of routines like:
15sec @ 100%, 15 sec walk, 30sec @ 100%, 30 sec walk, 45sec @ 100%, 45 sec walk, 60sec @ 100%, 60 sec walk. 2 min rest, repeat 3-4 times.
Mostly old school stuff. 400, 200, 100 repeats. Fartlek.
Couple of routines like:
15sec @ 100%, 15 sec walk, 30sec @ 100%, 30 sec walk, 45sec @ 100%, 45 sec walk, 60sec @ 100%, 60 sec walk. 2 min rest, repeat 3-4 times.
As a training session?
Yea why not
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Just doesn't seem like much of a beneficial workout, because so little of it is genuinely intense.
Fair point, but it’s just a different form of cardio opposed to a run
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Just manipulate distance, intensity and real variables.
It’ll give you a genuinely infinite amount of combinations.
We did one Monday night as a punishment for guys not turning up to pre-season camp
75 x 75m run throughs at 70-80% with ~25m walk recovery
Ends up being 5625m of running
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Was that everyone or just the guys that didn’t turn up?
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Of the 20+ then went to day 1 of the camp only 3 turned up for day 2.
None were there on Monday so I presume they were told not to turn up lol
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Very old school, I know myself and the senior coach if we tried this at my club it wouldn’t work. Young millennials need a cuddle not a whack haha.
We scrapped the camps a couple years ago because of the lack of numbers, we just ran 3 Saturday sessions in February.
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Haha.
We don’t have too many millennials during pre-season (nor at the club in general; might be a country thing lol).
Our current coach has gained a lot of respect by making such punishments few and far between, and for generally being a lot more two-way in his conversations than the last coach (who meant well but had horrible people skills).
The only ones I’ve heard complain about his coaching are arrogant old twos players so for the most part it’s not a real concern.
Last year we cancelled, but this time we brought the netballers along so I think they had close to 40 go all up (I worked so couldn’t get down at all).
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Hit the trails, its helped my match fitness and its pretty enjoyable
Just turning up and running won't necessarily get you fitter but it can make you more tired - I'm not sure why you'd be after that though
That's bullshit whatever it was for - hope he';s ready for a slate of injuries in the next 2 - 3 weeks - especially as praccy games start up
And you know what - punishing everyone but the blokes it's intended for does sweet FA
A lot of coaching is so backwards is ridiculous
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Just looking for short sharp running sessions to improve my cardio.
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I actually didn’t think it was that bad (I track every session with a GPS and normally clock 4-4.5km of hard running so 5.6km isn’t *that* big of a spike).
Just boring as *.
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that's my point - cardio and short sharp are not the same thing by any stretch
1 person who takes training/recovery "seriously" vs 30 who don't
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Hmm. Cleary I haven't explained myself at all well in this thread. I'll just google some programs.
Interval training is great for cardio, so not sure what you mean there.
Different interval times/intensities train different energy systems and specific aspects of endurance - without knowing what you need to improve how do you know what you need to do to get the most benefit?
Thus why just turning up and doing whatever someone says to do can be a total waste of time and most importnatly effort
Train smarter, not harder...or be like everyone else
Thus why just turning up and doing whatever someone says to do can be a total waste of time and most importnatly effort
Train smarter, not harder...or be like everyone else
