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Hey, just wondering what sort of stuff everyone is doing for training right now? when is the first time you will get to even touch a pole again?

right now at Michigan State, we are in the serious weight lifting, we start olympic lifts next week. Coniditioning, a few segment runs, some shorter sprints and 100m strides. Mainly doing base work. And were in the Gymnastics room. So our bases will be covered. Soon though, we will start doing more speed and quick-twitch stuff. And our weight lifting will be increased to more weight.

I think in a couple weeks we'll get on some poles just doing some short staright pole swing up type stuff... maybe bend a pole shortly there after..

Im curious what other schools are doing right now.

We're vaulting maybe once or twice a week. Just short run stuff, no more than 3 lefts, and some slide boxes and pole runs on the track. In addition to our track workouts, we have weights 3x a week, and gymnastics 2x a week.

well, iv been doin heavy allot of lifting (put on 30 pounds over the summer ), im doin running, slide boxes, and whatever else i can get acess to. im trying to find somewhere to practice vaulitng during the winter, but no luck so far if anyone else form MI knows of somewhere to jump, leme know!

we have tryouts on the 20 so we are all on our own till then. I am just doing some speed and stamina work, trying to lose those summer pounds.

I'm currently doing 12oz curls and 2 mile liquor store runs.

we just started doing walk plants and pole carries yesterday. we won't start doing anyting in the box till november maybe.

well since i'm not doing any "pole vault" training i shouldn't put this in here Hmmm anyone doing 16x200 @ 30sec yet??.. well its like 200 @ 30sec .. turn around a cone and run back in 30 sec .. so a 400 in 60 sec /w 2 mins rest while doing crunches oh the fun and that isn't even the hardest workout....... (I'm going to die) and after that is weights.........

right now I practice MWF...even though there are captain practices all week long... we basically only do running work...I don't think I"ll be able to pick up a pole until Indoor's Official practice actually starts

I officially started vaulting mine on Monday, but they have asked me a few time over the last month, so we are really about 2 months into jumping. We are gonna stay at 6-8 steps this month, then try to jump PR's from 10-12 next month. We won't go back longer than that till closer to indoor.

I feel for some of you guys, I try to get the volume of running and weights in along with the jumping. I try to structure the program where we do technique stuff after rest or off day, and most of our volume the day after without sacraficing the training.

LB

lonpvh wrote:I officially started vaulting mine on Monday, but they have asked me a few time over the last month, so we are really about 2 months into jumping. We are gonna stay at 6-8 steps this month, then try to jump PR's from 10-12 next month. We won't go back longer than that till closer to indoor.

I feel for some of you guys, I try to get the volume of running and weights in along with the jumping. I try to structure the program where we do technique stuff after rest or off day, and most of our volume the day after without sacraficing the training.

LB

That's good stuff Lon! I don't understand the popular mentality out there that you have to wait until November or December until you touch a pole. I suppose if all you do is go long, maybe that's a good plan, but if you're mixing it up with short run jumping, why wouldn't you want to work on technique throughout the year? I've heard people complain of burnout, but if you build in more short breaks throughout the year instead of one long break from summer to fall, you don't burn out. Using a variety of approach lengths keeps things interesting also - break your pr's from every stride instead of just going for the ultimate pr from long run.

lonestar wrote:That's good stuff Lon! I don't understand the popular mentality out there that you have to wait until November or December until you touch a pole. I suppose if all you do is go long, maybe that's a good plan, but if you're mixing it up with short run jumping, why wouldn't you want to work on technique throughout the year? I've heard people complain of burnout, but if you build in more short breaks throughout the year instead of one long break from summer to fall, you don't burn out. Using a variety of approach lengths keeps things interesting also - break your pr's from every stride instead of just going for the ultimate pr from long run.

or, you can just vault once a week, cause i still feel like i can pr and wanna vault even after the year's over in june. but we start in late october, or early november, i can't remember really.