Should Sprinters Run Cross Country?
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- *Run Faster - Track Off Season Program*
www.jcampfit.co...
In this video I address whether or not sprinters should run cross country in the off season.
How to Run Faster
• How to Run Faster
Track and Field Diet to Run Faster
• Track & Field Diet to ...
Custom Online Coaching:
www.jcampfit.com
Social Media:
Instagram: / jaretcampisi
Facebook: / jcampfit
TH-cam: / jaretcampisi
My Sponsors:
Save 10% off Rise Gear with my code "JCAMP10"
www.rise.ca
Save 20% off Believe Supplements with my code "JCAMP20"
www.buythetruth.ca
Business Inquiries:
JaretCampisi@gmail.com
![Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2 | เพื่อจักรพรรดิ ! [ตอนเดียวจบ]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4M0ckYMA4-U/mqdefault.jpg)
I run cross country 19:38 5k, and I'm also a sprinter 24.84 sec. 200m. Cross country has helped me stay fit and sometimes for practice we do sprints.
It's better than 6 hours of the internet during the fall each day.
Jed Clampett hahah true
Joni Cholula damn bro stop sprints, stick to 400-800 or more
Joni Cholula yeah that's my 5k time also 19:38.3 to be exact. But my main times are the 400 and the 800. I run a 52.1 400 and a 2:07 800 atm and my 200 is 23.5
I'm 13 my best 5k is 21:30 and my 200m best at practice is 26seconds manly a 400m runner
Wait wait wait hold up wait a minute...
OPERA SINGER!!!?!?!!!??
hahahaha you bet your ass
CJ Cunanan c
I'm a junior in HS and I run the 200 and 400 and starting hurdles. I started cross country sophomore year and my sophomore year of track was great! Cross country had helped me so much! My stride was better my times were amazing! I'm doing cross country agin this year I I can't wait for my times in track! My workouts for cross country is pretty simple. Two of the fives days I have a sprint workout and then the long run days my coach doesn't left me go past 5 miles.
Yeah thats great! If you find it helps you run faster in track then by all means do it!
"they just have a natural gift for speed"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
thanks for the video. But I have my sprinters run cross country. three reasons. 1) I can legally coach them during this time. 2) sprinters come to cc practice and run sprint workouts, lift, plyos, etc. 3) cc is a better alternative than sitting on the couch for 8 months until track rolls around. just a different perspective! thanks again for all of your videos.
haha I actually completely agree with that approach. I was going to mention its fine to run cross country if the coach adjusts your workouts a bit for shorter distances then say the pure cross runners. Sounds like a great program you got going. Keep up the good work :)
I am best at sprinting 400m and below but signed up for cross country at the moment since it's off season. It's hard,yes. Fun, yes. Torcher, yes. I wanna quit, yes. But in the end a sprinter can run far and still sprint. It is not that hard If you PRACTICE. I'm forced so...no choice there XD
Robotic Secret that's not how it works...
Yeah not really how it works. You can't be a sprinter and long distance runner at the same time. You can be a middle distance runner however that's completely different.
Mythrintia exactly, sadly mid distance means your good at mid distance... not long or short... so basically if you wanna be good stick to one area
If its not hard, your not pushing yourself hard enough
Robotic Secret torture*
I still run cross country even though my best event is the 200. It keeps me active. I'm not good at cross country but oh well.
Same with me! 😂 I love the 200 but I run cross because I think it’s fun and challenging
You should try it. I used to sprint (60-200). And I was pretty good (12th in the 60m and 15th in the 200m in the Latvian U12 championships)
Then, my coach basically made my group's warmups endurance training (20-70min of running in the forest) in order to get us ready for an XC race happening in Lithuania. It was kind of a big deal to me because it was my first international competition. The course for my age group was 1852m (1 nautical mile) long and I came in 7th. It was the best I'd ever done in a competition. I was moved to the middle distance and I recently qualified for the Latvian championships in the 1000m with a time of 3.12 (that's pretty good for a 12 year old). Moral of the story- try it. You might be better suited for mid/long distance than sprints. Also I wanted to brag.
"Also i wanted to brag" 😂
Your body will not switch fast twitch fibers to low switch fibers. There's no evidence for that, but of course you'll thin out and adapt if you start once your mileage, your body will always adapt to the activity your doing. The muscle fiber type is not what changes though, it's which type you're stimulating with your training
You are correct, that is one item he has misquoted. The muscle types he is referring are also more known as Type 1(endurance), Type 2B(sprint/explosive) and Type 2A Hybrid.
I run track and play soccer is soccer slowing me down?
Thanks v useful
@@limitbreaker_rb soccer is great. I box and doing crosscountry helped me tremendously because of the endurance. Train for what best suits your sport
Actually type 2b when trained can be reduced to a type 2a hybrid but other than that you’re correct. Not trying to be one of those annoying instigators in comment sections, just saying.
Jaret, I watched all of your videos, and out of everything I watched, I've gotten faster on my 100 meter. I went from 11.16 to 10. 78. THANK YOU!!!!!!
hell yeah congrats man! Love to hear that :) Keep up the good work and stay tuned for more videos!
This is why I felt extensive tempo work was a better fit for me, I never really got much of an endurance/fitness benefit running miles, often felt slower. 100 and 200 meter repeats with a recovery walk of equal distance gets me in amazing shape really quickly.Good video
yeah I'm in the same boat as you....its good to learn this stuff about yourself as it will drastically improve your times
400m guy here, and I love a fast 5-6km. And btw your fibres never change lol, they just get more efficient.
My question is can you do cross country as a sprinter if you do the explosive workouts on the side as well?
that would help off set some of the slow twitch conversion yes. Just be careful you don't over train
I run cross country, and for track, I do long jump, 200, 100, and 4×1 relay...
Wow this video came up at the perfect time b/c I was debating whether or not to join cross country as I am a sprinter (my coach told me I shouldn't)
sounds like a smart coach :)
I'm a 200 meter runner but enjoy cross country and I'm not bad at it should I do it
Do whatever you like man
I'm a sprinter and I do cross country I can do both I do both sports 😂
did it help you?
Lexizz 2003 same
Alexis Patterson your obviously not a serious sprinter then
same
Logan Graham fuck you, we have winter
If this is true then why do you suggest doing long distance workouts during the summer
I'm doing Xc as a 300mh and 800 guy because coaches asked me too but I still can't wait till I'm on the track again
haha thats probably good for the races you run so just get through it :)
During my cross country practices we spend the first 15 minutes stretching, the next hour or so running and the last 45 minutes working out in the gym
so I don’t see how I would lose muscles while I’m also working out in the gym
😭😭😭😭I'm seriously suffering from shin splints in right leg..it seriously ruins my training and pain plz help out bro
vedavathi solomon i hope youre ok now bro i feel bad
Best way is to ice it and take some days off until the pain is gone.
Hills are also great for sprinters. When I coach sprinters in cross country, I have them do less distance and more hill reps. This was helpful tho. Thanks for posting.
Jaret yo advice is life saving for me a runner bro don't u ever stop making your videos
thanks man, so happy to hear that! Got another video uploading right now :)
I don’t see how running cross country would be that harmful to sprinters. I’m skinny as a stick and I’m a 3200m runner during the track season, but I’m able to get about 24 seconds in the last 200m after a workout on the track. In fact, most of the varsity distance runners I know are good at all running events and are right behind the sprinters in their own events even though we don’t train for those events.
sprinters need to recover. Cross country is useless for sprinters
If you are a 100/200 sprinter and want to do a fall sport, play football or soccer. . Distance running will kill your explosiveness. If you are a 400/800 runner, then XC can give you a good base.
I’m a 100/200 sprinter in highschool. I do xc but the way I get back into the sprint like exercise s is by doing winter track. We usually have winter track. It is mostly just weight lifting, calf explosion stuff and like getting back to moving so I think I can still do xc. I’m not over the top good at both but I’m above average I’d say. I’m a freshman rn and track just ended. I started the season with a 14.1 and now I have a 12.8. I’m on jv. My 5k time is a 20:30. At end of season
i do cross country and i do explosive workouts to combine both endurance and muscle. i'm hella lean and i've been to state. I'm a 400 runner.
Why not just keep training for sprinting? Why waste the effort on long distance that's just going to slow you down by telling your body to adapt to running long distance rather than sprinting?
I was a sprinter in track and field but recently I got into cross country.
When I was a sprinter I ran half the track in 43 seconds.
Love these video's, they helped me out so much in my last season and I got a lot of PBs
so happy to hear that!
(sprinter)
Coach told me to do 40k per week but I end up doing 25-30k per week and cycle 70k+ at weekends
Yeah I think 40k per week is much too high for off season sprinter. I honestly never ran more than 2 miles in high school like ever.
Thanks for the info I always run 80m hurdles, 100m and 200m. I was going to sign up for track but now I will not thank you for letting us know! Keep up the videos their great 🔥
I hope you meant you were going to sign up for "cross country" but now you're not. haha And you're very welcome man. Lots more coming!
yeah obviously bc 100m is track
I am a distance runner, why am I watching this.
this season i started traning longer distances and my 100m time dropped off from 11.2 at the start of the season to 11.7-8 by the end. My 200m stayed more or less the same, 22.9 start 23.1 end but my 100m and 60m were noticably slower.
I pray to run a sub 10 100 meter dash
I just do it to get in good shape for the winter season, i don't take the workouts and races too seriously. Obviously there's no point if you're a sprinter
yeah thats actually fine as well as long as you understand that and have that kind of mind set i'd say that would probably be fine :)
If you are a sprinter do football or wrestling in the off season if you're school doesn't have an off season team. You'll be competing still which will push you harder than working out on your own and those sports are all about speed and explosiveness. Ask any wrestler and he'll tell you that you have to have fast and powerful legs for a take down and ask any football player and he will say the same thing about making a block or a tackle or a truck
damnit, I've already commited to cross, and my coach told me to run XC even though i'm a 100 meter guy :(
your coach is an idiot
+Mr Mackey i'll talk to the cross coach and see what i should do
You should be doing more weight training, explosion and plyometric work. Idk if you're in HS or college but your school should have an off season program for track athletes
+Mr Mackey i'm in highschool we don't. thats why are sprinters suck the distance guys are best in the state, they even won the 4 by 8 at nationals this year
Maybe you should consider playing another sport in the off season like basketball or soccer or anything that works on your fast twitch muscle fibers. Honestly even you took a weight lifting class and didn't run in the off season it would do you better. If your school is like my HS then your XC will be doing 40 miles a week on workouts. And no speed training. This would leave you slow and weak for the 100m
Im a junior in HS. This year was my first year running XC. By end of the season, my time was 20:25. This is year is my second year running track (started in 10th). From my perspective XC DOES help alot. Yes, its hard but at the end of the day its fun and helps tons. XC has help me with my endurance, stride, pacing, and helped me run on my toes more. Im flatfooted😂. This year I run 110 hurdles, 300 hurdles, and 4x800/800. If u do XC it will help you become faster, stronger, stay fit, and helps alot with your endurance. Example last year I ran a 2:41 800m. This year I got down to a 2:23. Aint super great 800 time but still good and its a pr👍. I say try it. If you dont like it then dont do it
Did it make you lose muscle
@@mustachekitten3863 To be honest I never had muscle to begin with lol. But if you're a muscular person then you lose of your muscle. But honestly just along you lift 2 or 3 times a week and eat grains and protein then you'll be fine. Trust me, if your lighter your going to run faster and feel more comfortable. But that's in my opinion
I suggest talking to the coach. Some coaches will give you special workouts, mileage will probably less also. You said this right as I typed this Jaret...
haha yea for sure, I agree completely :)
just incorporate sprint strides/ sprint workouts with your longer run days
this kinda help me, 14/yo girl, I thought I was more of a sprinter until i started to do more 400s at meets and found that i like that, found out that I like distance more, and ran my first 5k in 15min
cool intro and thank you for answering the question I so wanted an answer for
you're welcome!
I ran cross county then I switched to track now I’m in the 800 relay just comes down to weather you want it or not.
True
I'm a half marathoner and I view 5k cross country as a sprinting event hahahaha. I'm damn slow in sprinting and basketball though.
If you're a short sprinter, Yall please dont do cross country and learn from my mistake. I am a 100, 200, 400 sprinter. I haven't touched cross country or anything over the 400 in 5 years since i ran the 800 in elemenatary school. Just so happens, my high school year, my high school coach was asking for everyone to run cross country. Everything went down hill for me. I ran only 2 miles without even trying my hardest and ended up tearing my hip flexor. It was a 6 month recovery. Both my knees and hips were hurting and bothering me. I had a great physical therapy doctor to get me back on track and get my bones back on track and told me good thing I caught it early. If you're a short distance sprinter....STAY AWAY FROM CROSS COUNTRY. Or learn the hard way like I did. (Edit: I was on crutches for almost 2 months)
I'm a sprinter I've done a 3Km Cross Country It was pretty hard if u never stopped
Adomx 3km?
Adomx u mean 5k XD
Thanks Jaret this helped a lot!! Luckily our cross country team does a lot of sprint endurance workouts!
oh yeah thats actually perfect for off season track then
Well I did cross country when I was a sprinter and that helped me become a distance and a sprinter
Sameeee
Tell me if im wrong but free running might be a good way to work those fast twitch muscles. It requires explosive movements to acquire enough momentum to perform most tricks. Plus there are ways to train and avoid injury
yeah seems like it would be good for explosive movements sure
I have big bulging bulky calves and quads, but for some reason I'm better towards the distance side, and not sprints. Cross country is starting soon and I don't know if i should join cuz, sure, i'm better at distance but, i don't wanna lose my muscles?!
Yeah my friend (100m hurdler) said he got "distance legs" from XC and said he's not doing it again. Took him a while to shake out the distance legs
yeah thats not uncommon for sure...I find distance running definitely saps some of the explosiveness from my muscles as well.
Long distance running runs in our family (no pun intended) but I Do pole vault in track when XC season is over and I’m good at it
what if you do 100,200,400?
Kevar Williams yeah those are my three events I do xc to try and improve my 400m time but I do 150 meter sprints after my xc practice So I work on endurance and speed at the same time
What about playing basketball? Should I do basketball and short sprints in the same season? Does sprinting affect your vertical jump height?
Absolutely not, that just helps you develop quickness
Dont listen to that guy. You need explosive force to jump high and you need explosive force to go fast. It's as simple as that
I've heard xc is fine as long as you keep doing weight training to maintain muscle. i always do a 2mile run before all my workout's even before speed but that's just me. i think it's a good way to maintain fitness
In general you don't want to do long runs before sprinting workouts or lifting workouts. You would be much better off doing a dynamic warm up like the one I linked in this video. If you want to do general endurance workouts or distance runs, do them on your off days or after your track and lifting workouts.
I love sprinting but I'm a cross coutry runner and this video is reall true
Im a new track sprinter (high school) and i prefer sprints over distance but i also like distance, i ran xc this year for the first time, and want to also do 800m and possibly 1500m for distance? Is this a good idea?
But I know some skinny sprinters that run 11.5 on my high school track team
What if you're a 200/400 sprinter...I dropped the 100 and focusing on the 2 but I use the 4 to help for the 2 but I know I need more strength/speed endurance
I'm a sprinter but I do mostly 400s and 200s and maybe even 800s, so my coaches told me that I should definitely do cross country. I'm very skinny too like many distance runners, so maybe I'll be better at distance.
You can usually tell where your talents are as a runner by doing a few different events...if the 100/200 is not your best then possibly the 400. If you still don't have the natural speed for a 400 then you can bump up to other events like the 800, mile etc.
running long distance didnt make you slower, not working on sprinting made you slower. If you didnt run at all and just sat on the couch youd get slower too because you didnt practice sprinting, dont blame that in distance running.
hey I just started highschool and I'm a 100m and 200m sprinter but I'm quite skinny. Is it a smart idea for me to do cross country?
yeah.... just keep eating rice
Yessss
It’s not a good idea for now, I’d say build some fast twitch muscles
Hi... im a 3200m runner and XC runner. I'd like to try running sprints like 100m or 200m next year... should I try?
Do resistance training good for sprinters in the fall season?.....weight sleds....parachutes....rubber bands
I totally agree with how said your body will adapt to what it is doing. To maintain that lean and high explosive power will going to the gym lifting heavy compensate while doing a little bit of cross country?
I'm practicing my
*S P E E D E N D U R A N C E*
ｉｂｅｔｙｏｕｄｏｎｏｔｅｖｅｎｎｏｄｅｖｅｙ
So if I’m skinny and an a sprinter than I should do cross country because there are not much muscles for me to lose so I can only benefit
I did the 100 meter and 200 meter. And I'm really skinny and not have a lot of muscle so if I do the proper training could I do cross country ?
Ꮮ1Ꮮ Ꮶ1Ꭰ yeah lol I’m surprised your a sprinter if you don’t have a lot of muscle. Do it
There’s a guy on Xc and sprinting side of track and he’s skinny yet he’s in varsity for both
I lift 3 times a week I sprint 3 times a week but I also play football. Is football gonna slow me down in the 100m race
I'm a cross country runner and a 2 mile runner I'm fucking jacked muscle wise
So I don't know if I made a mistake running cross country because I do the 200m,400m,4x400m, and sometimes the 800m
I do that to I don't think it was a mistake for me
what if your captin America
I ran varsity cross country in high school. I was primarily a short sprinter including hurdles. It wasn't until after I ran cross country that I converted to the 400 and 800 and incorporated that with my hurdle and jumping events
haha maybe that cross country running is what made you switch to the longer events.
+Jaret Campisi that's a possibility, I think I just felt a love for the longer distances after my body was conditioned for it so I wasn't burned out after the first 200m
I do both 100m hurdles and 300m hurdles and in addition to 3 days a week of track summer workouts (for sprinters and hurdlers) I go to two cross-country practices a week (for endurance, usually only run 1.5 to 2.5 miles). Is this bad for my speed or am I in the clear?
you should be fine with that...just be careful you're not doing too much in the summer in general. Your body needs time to recover so if you train 5 days a week for an entire year, you're probably going to be a bit burnt out for your track season
I think your videos are extremely helpful. But what would you recommend for jumpers? Because I do jumps as well as short sprints
Thanks man! For jumpers you guys are basically training like a 100 meter runner. You're really just a sprinter who also jumps at the end of their runs right. So you would want to be doing lots of sprints, plyo's, explosive movements and obviously lots of tech work for your specific event. The one exception to this I would say is high jump. They should be doing about half as much sprinting work and more plyo, tech work.
What's the name of the song in your intro I love it!
I actually don't know, my graphics guy chose it for me...
I'm in high school right now my events are 100 and 200 basically in off season my coaches forced my to run cross country i was so angry about it and looking at this makes me feel good but I wasted time letting them force me
I run cross country and my time is a 22 and I’m a freshman and I’ve never done track and I’m wondering if I should do it, I was thinking about doing the mile
Yes do it I run cross country and track I like it and if you can pre season conditioning if your track team does it. But all in all you should run track also
Great video this will help with my sprinting
How about highjump, cause it helps to be slim, but ur using fast twitch muscles.
You were so good at athletic training videos :(
Simple answer *yes*
No cross country sucks for sprinters. Running at top speed 3 times a week makes you faster than daily long distance. It’s fine for sprinters to run far and play other sports sometimes but not cross country. Because that is very different from speed and that’s a whole season of jogging so that’s mostly stamina. Cross country kids sometimes run 7 miles in workouts even 3 is far and some fast runners might have pretty poor stamina so they won’t even keep up with a team for 5 miles even the fastest in a city might have only ok endurance. Bolt couldn’t have been the fastest runner if he did cross country he worked on mostly speed to win. But longer sprints are fine too he hardly ever ran far. That is bad for fast runners and that even will mess up your timeline as a pro sprinter. If you want to be faster football and basketball are fine teams for off season. I like to run at top speed usually and run long distances once in a while and play other sports.
should jumpers run cross country?
That is a 100% no :)
Jaret Campisi why not ?
richard brown Because jumpers should be working on increasing their veritical in the offseason and not running longer distances. It's not a bad thing to go on long runs once or twice a week if you're a sprinter/jumper, but if you're trying to maximize your top end speed and or vertical jump, the weight room, plyos, and sprint workouts would be a lot more beneficial.
If you're a jumper check out a channel called 'Overtimeathletes' , they aren't track related like Jaret's videos but they have great tips for increasing your vertical.
richard brown sprinters and jumpers directly correlate, when you're doing your run through you wanna reach top speed within 100ft and be as explosive as possible, cross country does none of that
Logan Graham okay I understand , and yeah I'm a jumper and a sprinter but my coach has me doing cross country to work on my leg strength so I can be more explosive , and for me being a first time xc runner I just ran a 3.1 mile in 20 minutes and 27 seconds the thing is I'm really fast and have a lot of endurance and can jump my ass off and this is my senior year so I'm pushing for the scholarship as well , I can say I'm just naturally talented and I don't really see any decrease of my speed or jumping .
Nice intro!!!
thanks!
Im a cross country runner so should i train for a 400m for track season? my coach wants the freshman to pratice for the 400m and i have never ran it before.
I run 100 through 800 but my best is the 200 Nd 400 should I do xc?
I did those events for track and I did cross country so if you want to then do it
No!
Okay I know this video is old, but im a serious 100,200 sprinter and my coach has always wanted me to do cross country. So im starting. Its my senior year. But now im discouraged? What do i do? I don't want to quit but i also dont want to become slower?? Help??
What can i do? To ensure my speed?
XC would help you get better as a sprinter yes you wouldn’t be doing 70 miles a week but you lungs would get stronger plus the gift for speed is then working hard to have that speed plus good genes you can be a good sprinter and run xc
well im dead, i run 100-200 in track and do cross county
no wonder im not that good
Besides xc, distance runs are good to prevent injuries during the season right?
yes they are fine in the off season but i wouldn't run more than 2-3 miles
what kind of gym workouts would be good for a 400m and a 200m runner?
My endurance are shit, never go beyond 100. LoL
I want to run both
Im your big fan will you make a video on triple jump
I know this vid is like 2 years old but. Im a 100/200 im 6'2 and skinny and don't try during practice or do weight lifting or do workouts in the off season. I have a lot natural talent in sprinting I made it to sections sophomore year in 100m with a time of 11.57 and literally did nothing for practice and didn't even practice at all for 3 days before the meet. I realize I have a lot of potential in sprinting but i joined XC and i don't want it to effect me negatively should i drop it and practice sprint workouts on my own or mix in sprint workouts with XC
I love long distance it's the only thing I would do
Oh god no, the one thing distance runners hate are the cocky sprinters, don’t bring them to cross country.