Russell,
Thanks for your input on this topic – and it’s worth more than 2 cents (inflation you know!). Still…worth every penny 🙂
I appreciate everyone’s feedback.
Unfortunately – I’m not on the same page as my daughter’s college coach in regards to using regulation hurdles and full flights of 10 at practice (she had a 5-7-10-10-7-5 workout a week or so ago). While I understand the “ladder” concept for sprinters and have no problems with the distance of the runs (55m, 70m, 100m, 100m, 70m, 55m)per se’ – I think adding regulation hurdles changes this workout dramatically.
To me – this is virtually like asking a hurdler to run a 55H race, 60H race, 100H race, 100H race, 60H race & then another 55H race when using regulation height/spaced hurdles. They were told to take a “full recovery” in between – but I still can’t see how the hurdlers can be expected to maintain quality technique/rhythm throughout with this workout.
Admittedly – I’ve never tried this type of workout…so I’m speculating a bit.