15 Minutes

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          Mike Young on May 23, 2011 at 3:01 pm #17554

          If you are a speed-power athlete or train speed-power athletes and you’re doing anything that involves anything more than 15 minutes of continuos work of anything except extremely low intensity activity you’re probably doing something wrong. This allows for dynamic warmups (of which mine are typically 45-60 minutes), general strength, weight circuits and similar training methods that have short

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          codeman9 on May 24, 2011 at 7:08 am #108234

          What is the basis for 15 minutes? Why not 16 minutes or 20?

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          Danny Tutskey on May 24, 2011 at 7:36 am #108235

          What is the basis for 15 minutes? Why not 16 minutes or 20?

          I would guess a study on a segment of athletes that indicated that the threshold for maximum power and speed output was right at 15 minutes. That would be my guess. But I’m probably wrong haha

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          Jay Turner on June 1, 2011 at 10:59 am #108387

          I’m guessing Mike is talking about mixing aerobic activities on a speed day, or vice versa. Or am I misinterpreting?

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