Slogging

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          Vern Gambetta on March 5, 2008 at 12:52 am #14388

          Slogging is not in the Oxford dictionary so don’t bother looking it up. It appears all the time disguised as training, usually included as integral part of warm-up or disguised as aerobic work. I am beginning to think it is a disease. It consists of thousands of very percussive negative foot contacts ambulating very slowly. Slogging is slower than jogging, hence the term slogging. Yesterday

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          Chad Williams on March 5, 2008 at 5:06 am #68753

          I never understood either why pitchers have to do 30 minute runs when they take one step?

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          jump-start on March 5, 2008 at 5:42 am #68754

          Actually it is in the Oxford Dictionary:

          https://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/slog?view=uk

          Time to get a bigger dictionary! 😛

        • Keymaster
          Mike Young on March 6, 2008 at 9:00 pm #68766

          I’ll actually prescribe slogging several times a month during the competitive season. We do it under the guidelines Vern stated and it isn’t used for lactate clearance (bogus) or aerobic fitness (unnecessary)…we do it for CNS recovery. Unpublished research on Olympic level athletes using the Omega Wave monitoring system indicates that it is the best means of CNS recovery.

          ELITETRACK Founder

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