Track workouts

[VAVAULTER]

Well everyone has real good advice. It depends on what stage of vaulting you are in and what time of the season you are in. in high school the best thing you could do is workout with the sprinters. if you do not run anything over 70 meters then you are limiting your body. your body needs to gain strength before you can run faster. what i mean by that is just lifting weights to get strong is not going to do it, you need to run the 400s and 200s and 150s to gain strength cardiovascularly. Some of our country's best vaulters have been track athletes first and then vaulters, (Chelsea Johnson (15'), Lawrence Johnson(19-6 1/2"), Bubka(6.15 meters) even though he is not from our country. Chelsea could have been a state champ in the 300hurdles, LoJo was a decathlete @ UT and won Penn Relays in the 4 x 110 hurdles, Bubka was one of his nation's fastest 200 meter runers in his day.
so to your question, i believe you need to run with the sprinters, lift with the throwers, jump with the jumpers, and do gimnastics on the side.

[MightyMouse]

My favorite work out or as our my teach affectionately calls it, "the Stephen Special" is 8x20s 6x40s 4x60s 2x80s 1-4x100s, that is the building block for the workout, I will occasioanly knock up or down each set according to how I feel or if there is a meet soon. Most importaintly they should all be done at race pace, I treat each sprint as if im starting a race, and make sure I take @ a min between each one so I can focus.
Hope this Helps

[GirlPoleVaulter87]

this helps a lot. I need to go to track prepared, knowing what I want to do. Because i'm the only vaulter on the 185 member team, the coaches don't know what to do with me or don't have time to think of workouts for me.

But now i will have plenty of stuff to do!

[saraf]

jewels, you know you are gunna do nothing but sit on ur fat butt so why are you saying those things ????



just kiddin .. keep up the hard work .. 4.20!!!

[Peepers PV]

well, if i could, i would only do workouts under 100m maybe 200m, but my coach won't let me. this is my 5th year on his team and every year we have the same conversation about how i want to get faster and his reply is always "GREAT! i want you to get faster too, so let's start with 2-mile loop once or twice a week." my coach is a distance guy, but he has a masters in exercise physiology, so i guess he knows what he's talking about .

i didn't ever understand these long workouts, and i was always thinking- o man, he is SO trying to turn me into a distance runner. but now i get it. in order to get through a lot of sprint workouts, you have to have some kind of basic fitness. i also have to get through 5 events at state with prelims and finals, so the endurance training, if you can call it that i guess, helps a lot, and definitely pays off in my opinion.

good luck, and don't run like a pony

[GirlPoleVaulter87]

peeps is a crazy track animal!!!

Lets combine your insane running ability with my hard core gymnastics and make a vaulting MACHINE!!!