Another good bit from Mike Boyle. The BLUF: The
world is full of slow people. If you want your child to optimize his/her
athletic potential, do not let them "train" for slowness by running
long distances. By definition, if you are running more than a minute or
two, you are running slowly.
If you want your child to perform poorly this winter I
have the answer. The answer is cross country. I have had countless
parents
over the years tell me that they can't figure out why little Janie
or
Johnny had such a bad winter sports season. They worked so hard
in the fall,
running all those miles.
Lets get some facts straight. There are no team
sports where you
run for miles at a time.
Even if you actually
"run" miles in a game, those miles are actually
a series of sprints
interspersed with a series of walks or jogs. In
the case of a rare sport like
ice hockey, you actually sprint and
then sit down. Running long distances does
not prepare you to run
short distances.
There is a concept in sport called sport
specific training. The
concept basically means that from a conditioning
perspective the
best way to condition for a sport is to mimic the energy
systems
of that sport. If the sport is sprint, jog , walk, than the training
is
sprint, jog , walk. Makes perfect sense
There is another very large concept to
grasp here.
It is simple.
Train slow, get slow.
The reality is it is very
difficult to make someone fast and very
easy to make someone slow. If you want
to get an athlete slow, simply
ask them to run slower, longer. Simple. They
may be in shape, but it
is the wrong shape.
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