[quote=“caoimhaoin, post: 752953, member: 273”]Well whatever about the running forwards, the backwards running would need to be explained to me. As you have deducted yourself this guy is winging it. We all wing it in some fashion somewhere, you have to learn (outside the classroom or off the Internet) but that doesn’t make any sense.
But much much worse than that is trying to train hurling and football on the same night. You’ll get nowhere doing that. You are attacking 3 things in the one night, fitness, hurling skills and football skills. They will all blunt each other. Concurrent fitness training (I.e trying to build strength, endurance & speed in the same training cycle at the same time) is hard enough but doable, but I believe to truly improve hurling and football at ye same time ti the best of your ability is nearly impossible and usually counter productive.[/quote]
The only time I ever saw any benefit in running backwards was for short spurts in the warm up to loosen the hamstrings.
Ya I know. Thing is you have to put it to the side. I’ve been reading alit of sport pschology stuff recently and one thing that pops up with all the best guys is having test in what your doing training wise is massive. Not trusting that gives you an easy way out and someone else to blame. What I would suggest is one, concentrating on getting your own head right, remember what made you a good player and why you enjoy playing. Then het to all the guys who you think are being affected like you are and drive into them positive thoughts and that the training shouldn’t change the player you are too much. Play hard and remember why you play. You won’t get it out of your head that the training is not up to scratch, but you can park it. Put yourself in a position where you can only blame yourself at the end of the day.
I was being a bit sarcastic, but you are kind of right. Alot of the power in backwards running comes from the quads though. It’s a great way actually of seeing if an athlete is too quad dominant. If you have teams of guys and you run a few sprint races, you see who wins and is fastest obviously. If you then run a backward race and someone who is not winning or at the back of the regular sprints starts movin up the pack then he is more than likely quad dominant. Si he should do shiploads of glut and hammy work and he’ll get faster running forward.
Interesting, thanks for that kev. I have found myself to be massively quad dominant and have struggled with injuries with my quads from over compensating, What kind of glut and hammy work should I be concentrating on?
Quad dominant people usually injury their hamstrings though from being too weak to move with the quads.
Anyway. Single leg deadlifTs, Romanian deadlifts, Bridges, Good mornings (careful with these, start using them as a stretch, slowly add weight, they really hit the hammys). Pick 2-3 and do them over the week. Start with high reps, so very light or just bodyweight, at 12-15 range. This builds endurance and basic strength as well as muscle. Every 3-4 weeks bring the reps down to 10, then 8, then 5.
im actually more hamstring dominant, trying to sort it but a pain in the face, congenital defect in left leg, very hard to make any gain muscle wise.
Re the training in general, i’d agree with designating one night but the way our club is both management team would give out that they werent getting enough time, not that half and half is a good compromise.
id been a way for a few weeks, so was in truth doing completely the wrong thing…but it was good to help me decompress after work,and to lean down…
Had a tough dose of circuits last night. Lots of explosive stuff. we’re 4 weeks from championship. The clocks changing at the weekend will see us doing all ball from here on.
We’ve 3 games played so far and won them all, but they were against teams we’d have expected to beat anyways.
Very important to keep strength training up though, even if you just do it yourself. Taper down the volume may e towards last 10 days, but a massive mistake by alot of GAA teams is to do 6-8 weeks circuits an then stop. You lose elasticity after 2 days of not training, and strength starts to seriously deteriate after 8-10 days.
[quote=“Kinvara’s Passion, post: 753417, member: 686”]Good point Kev.
Lets say your benching 60/70 kg n the gym but then the hurling starts and your window for going to the gym gets difficult.
Can you maintain this strength by doing Push ups at home?[/quote]
Ya sure you can. You could do isometric push ups, hold at the bottom for 5-8 secs, mix it up then by super setting it with press up claps. The combo of those 2 are very good for hurling. Holding your position under a dropping ball and then bursting away with it.
One legged Squats an dead lifts will give you plenty to work with without the gym.
I know the manager/coach has said to the S&C coach that he wants him to keep taking sessions over the course of the season so I’d say we’ll be keeping them up alright. I feel really good at the moment.
[quote=“The Runt, post: 754320, member: 181”]Got up this morning and did a decent sprint session.
Not much fun sprinting into the wind. Felt good afterwards though.[/quote]
Had to play two games on Sunday, hip flexor is in pieces…
What age are ya Count? Don’t train til Wed/thurs. Your club sounds as foolish as mine, they played sat/sun this week, 2 challenge games on Easter Weekend. The 2nd in football would have been against one of the nest Senior teams in Cork, we’d have 11-12 dual players. Completely retarded. Playing twice the same day (even though I thought I was a pure hero for doing it way back) is pretty mental really when you think about it.
No doubt you have hurling and football guys both looking fir their piece of meat?
[quote=“The Runt, post: 754320, member: 181”]Got up this morning and did a decent sprint session.
Not much fun sprinting into the wind. Felt good afterwards though.[/quote]
Has similar effects to sled sprinting or Shute sprinting. You do feel wicked slow though.