Track Sprinting

I'm after some detailed reading material for track sprint training, I've googled and only found road race based sprint training.

Currently I have based my training around gym strength, focusing on squats, single leg presses and dead lifting Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I have been performing 30s high cadence sprints on the turbo trainer on Tuesdays and Thursdays and then hill sprints on the track bike on Saturday, 4-6 standing start full efforts using a large gear (48x13). And resting Sundays.

I live 2 hours from the nearest Velodrome until Stratford opens, and the outdoor ones are closed what seems like most of the year. Also catering heavily towards the longer events in my experience.

Any help or links would be appreciated, thanks.

Paul

I'm after some detailed reading material for track sprint training

There isn't anything much that's publicly accessible. Some options are:

Start training with other sprinters.
Look at the FGF forum and form your own opinion amongst the info (some good, some bad).
If you can afford it, get a coach or seek out some specialist indoor sprint sessions.

Thanks, I have tried looking at FGF before, but once registered I could not view the forums.

I have recently thought the only options would be weekend trips to Manchester velodrome for induction then sprint training.

http://upupup.aboc.com.au/the-book

Thanks Colm, I'll take a look.

There isn't anything much that's publicly accessible. Some options are:

Start training with other sprinters.
Look at the FGF forum and form your own opinion amongst the info (some good, some bad).
If you can afford it, get a coach or seek out some specialist indoor sprint sessions.

http://www.veloriders.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1292681

For example.

Exactly.

Legros booked one for Bournemouth this year too, not sure when.

where did this come from?
"Fear leads to anger....Anger leads to Stress......Stress leads to Doobies...and Doobies leads to Twinkies"

American popular culture.

http://upupup.aboc.com.au/the-book

this is great, rep'd

I suppose I should have added, training without regular (daily) access to a Velodrome and working full time.

I will be booking tuition later this year, once I have a good base. I think at present it would be a waste of money when I have no experience of indoor velodromes and my strength is from gym work.

Now I want to make as much progress from home, transferring my strength from the gym to the bike.

http://upupup.aboc.com.au/the-book

Thank you Colm, I started reading this last night.

http://upupup.aboc.com.au/the-book

Excellent

Do you have a short attention span, get into fights? You could be a sprinter!

Can anger get you to 50mph?

Kenny seems pretty chilled.

Builds wheel disc

one thing Ill add is be carefull of CNS fatigue, sometimes it can take a couple of weeks for it to catch up after some intense sessions with not enough rest in between, and then you end up having to take it easy for a week and losing that progress you thought you made.

hill sprints, standing starts, too many full effort flying 200m's, just be aware of how many times/how frequently you push yourself past the limit

one thing Ill add is be carefull of CNS fatigue, sometimes it can take a couple of weeks for it to catch up after some intense sessions with not enough rest in between, and then you end up having to take it easy for a week and losing that progress you thought you made.

hill sprints, standing starts, too many full effort flying 200m's, just be aware of how many times/how frequently you push yourself past the limit

CNS fatigue; what is that exactly? Sounds like a posh new word for knackered, or the slightly more scientific term, over-training.

central nervous system?

CNS fatigue; what is that exactly? Sounds like a posh new word for knackered, or the slightly more scientific term, over-training.

you should be knackered after training, certain sports are very hard to 'over train' if you eat well and get rest but with sprinting you can do that right but still over train depending on how hard you go. you cant do a full on sprint, you work on diff pieces of the jigsaw, its only a small jigsaw with a few pieces, but if you put it together too quickly...

...that anology is going nowhere, basically you work on the start of the sprint and a sprint that is half the full distance of that event, then you work on the sprint endurace, you do the full sprint at race pace less often, that requires the most rest. if you go at 101% too often it wears you down and you go backwards. roadies/endurace riders have their 'shut up legs!', track sprinters have their 'shut up body!', theres only so many times you can tell your body to f*ck off before it says it back to you

central nervous system?

yes

http://upupup.aboc.com.au/the-book

Carl's my old coach from Melburn.

It's quite funny.. he used to dislike track racing and I used to think 100k was a long ride.

CNS fatigue can be a problem, especially if you're in the gym three times a week focusing on leg strength and then sprinting on the bike twice a week. It's a fine balance, with rest, a good diet (they are key) and active recovery.

CNS fatigue can be a problem, especially if you're in the gym three times a week focusing on leg strength and then sprinting on the bike twice a week. It's a fine balance, with rest, a good diet (they are key) and active recovery.

Unless you particularly enjoy gym work, three days of it Vs only two bike sessions could be excessive depending on your goals/phase

Also the importance of fitness for sprinters is often overlooked. You won't be able to push the body to the limits you need to unless you're fit enough to take it.

Sprinters with poor conditioning and aerobic fitness will always struggle with fatigue. It makes sense really, in order to really get the gains you want from maximal efforts, you need to be in tip-top shape to get the best out of them.

Can anger get you to 50mph?

Kenny seems pretty chilled.

Builds wheel disc

Sans disc no where near teh 5 0.