sprint technique

Team Banana Spokesman

Hi

Im Steve.

When practicing sprints should I:

1. try to sprint all out for 100m or 250m so i eventually get to a faster speed over those distances

2. target a speed like 29mph and get there and hold it as long as possible so I get better at holding that speed longer so I can attack earlier

(does this question make sense?)


im trying to beat bhima in the sprint so your help will go to a good cause

supersonic

Hi Steve,

Could you make that banana a bit smaller?! Standard signatures should be no more than about 4 or 5 lines deep.

Cheers!

Matt the Tester

lol yeah monster fruit run riot!!

Alex_Simmons/RST

Team Banana Spokesman wrote:

When practicing sprints should I:

1. try to sprint all out for 100m or 250m so i eventually get to a faster speed over those distances

2. target a speed like 29mph and get there and hold it as long as possible so I get better at holding that speed longer so I can attack earlier

1. yes and yes
2. it depends

Skippy2309

Generally Sprint training is weird :P

you got to pick what you want to train, Top Speed, Acceleration, Speed Endurance, etc

Each are different skill sets, you can simply go out and bang out a few laps or sprints and keep doing it.... but if you really want to improve you got to be specific.

Acceleration: how fast you can get to your top speed. this is nigh on just raw brute force through the pedals, For this I use hills, you got to pump it up there, steeper the better. You will find you accelerate a hell of a lot faster when you start to breeze up the hills.

Top Speed: how fast you can go, pretty much down to technique, if you got the gears and strength you will go fast, then you need to fine tune it so you can go faster, by this I mean how you pedal and how your body shape is. You also need to learn to spin so you can maintain reach a high cadence.

Speed Endurance, its the worst of them all, this one takes practice lots of practice, you got to get your body used to the conditions its going to be put through so lots of sprints, athletics style is 3x100, 3x200, 3x400 then back through to the start, the rest would be the time it takes to get from finish line to starting point. I can tell you now its hard and hurts. If you got a computer you can work it so you can replicate that style of repeated sprints.


Practice makes perfect

idreamoftailwinds

Just something to consider:

I have a stretch of flat road about a km long, I mark a start point, I sprint for as long and hard as I can, rest and repeat, rest and repeat, the distance I can sprint has increased.

This works for me.