[quote author="townguy" date="1269288855"]Looking for some advice on structuring high school sprinter workouts now that we have weekly meets. We basically have a meet every Thursday from here on out with the occasional invite on a few Saturdays. The way I have been structuring our workouts pre-meets was:
Monday-accelleration/plyos/weights
Tuesday-tempo recovery type work
Wednesday-technical work (blocks, hurdles, jumps, relays, etc..) / general strength circuits
Thursday-speed endurance
Friday-Strength circuits / plyos / weightsWhat I’m mainly trying to figure out is now that its a given they will be competing in some form of multiple all out sprints nearly every Thursday for the rest of the season that doesn’t leave much opportunity for multiple taxing workouts during the week. I look at Monday as the day for “hard” workouts. Examples being accelleration work, speed endurance, maxv. Then the next two days consisting of tempo recovery type work and event specific technical stuff. Meet Thursday and than Friday being another recovery type day. Do you other coaches out there look at your weeks in a similar type fashion or could I possibly squeeze more intensive work into my weeks especially during the earlier part of the competitive season?
What you have doesn’t look bad,I’m curious what kind of runs you are doing on Monday. If your athletes are doing multiple races every week for example short sprinters 100/200/4×100, long sprinter 200/400/4×400 etc I would do very little throughout the week. I promise if you do little your kids will shit on people come conference and state champs.
Thursday: 100/200/4×100
Fri: Pool and Gs circuits
Sat/Sun: Rest
Mon: 3×30+3×150 sub max/Weights
Tue: Tempo 1500m
Wed: 4×25 and easy handoffs
Thur: RACE[/quote]
I second what utfootball4 says. My sprinters typically do short sprints on Monday and then have Tuesdays (jogging), Wednesdays off, and Fridays pool. Less is more!