<p>The same context as that when people say “my back is killing me.”
I’d guess that a max of 315 on BP would correspond to about 13 times on 225 rep? I’d say it’s def. viable to a football recruit’s numbers…</p>
<p>I like how we hijacked his thread. Haha.</p>
<p>I’m only 5’7 180lbs, so I have quite an advantage with leverage as opposed to most kids. 13x225 does not equal 315. I can do 185 about 21 times (thats what they used for the HS nike combine). Don’t concentrate too much on bench though. it’s not necessary. If your shoulders/chest get too bulky it is impossible to control them under high speeds, you tense up and waste energy. This is especially true for 400m coming down the back stretch. Muscling up will tighten you up. You want to be relaxed and just pump your arms. For 400/800m runners:
2 weeks: 3x10
2 weeks 3x7
1 week 5x5 (explosive week)</p>
<p>As a 400m runner, you’ll only need to hit the weights 3x per week with an emphasis on legs. My cousin brought his 400m time from 49 to 46 over the winter of his senior year by lifting. It gave him the endurance to power through.</p>
<p>What do you think about sprinting up hills?</p>
<p>Depends on how long you are sprinting. I’d keep it under 100m. If you are doing that, sprinting up bleachers (hills) is how I develop proper running form. It teaches you high knee drive, which is the key to speed. Tiki Barber (or ronnie, w/e one the running back is) does not do open sprints in his workouts, he swears by sprinting hills to develop power and form.</p>
<p>Yeah, I tell you, that stuff gets really fatiguing fast. After a while, it feels like I’m jogging–instead of sprinting–with a kid on my back, even though I’m trying to go top speed. I hope that’s a good thing lol.</p>
<p><em>has no relevance to me</em></p>
<p>Interesting you asked about hills, yesterday(Friday) morning I did 60 times up a steep 100m hill(length not height). I took a 2 minute water break between each set of 20. Needless to say, I am dead. </p>
<p>As a 400m runner, I mostly do push ups, crunches/sit ups and things like that. I don’t workout my legs though.</p>
<p>standfordkid2008: The veritcle jump bible is definitly the best book/program on the market for increasing your verticle. I think Kelly says that you have to be able to squat 1.5 times your body weight before you can start the program and benefit from it.</p>
<p>^ ^, meow, do you have experience with the VJ bible?</p>
<p>How fast does a girl have to be able to run a mile to even be considered in recruiting?</p>
<p>you might wanna check out ivy league mile-times online or something to get a range</p>
<p>My experience with recruiting:
fill out the recruiting forms. if they are interested them will send you an e-mail If they are really interested them will call you and send you a brochure. Things are super tough for long-distance though. Long distance is kinda a stereotype for smart kids. A boy at my school had a 4:30 mile, a 4.0, and a 34 ACT, but couldn’t make the cut. Sprints however are very rare: The blatant truth is that most sprinters are black, and it’s near impossible to find an athletic black kid that makes the cut. I assure you that competition is very, very tough for long distance when only 5 or 6 spots are reserved for track recruits. Take this for example: A few ivies were all over me for sprints thanks to my great times, GPA, and very high scores. I got packets, phone calls, the whole shot. Then I mentioned that I had torn a muscle a season ago, they immediately lost interest, with only 5 or 6 spots, they said they can’t take a liability like that on a recruit. Any imperfection will immediately take you out of the running.</p>
<p>Hope that helps mj93- just go to their sites and start filling out forms</p>
<p>1MX, you are correct that at higher schools there are more long distance runners. Sprinters do have it a lot tougher, since American sprinting is the the best in the world, whereas American distance, to put it bluntly is mediocre. </p>
<p>The shorter sprinters you may be correct on the whole black thing (100-200m) but just look at people like Jeremy Wariner, I know a whole bunch of white kids that can run sub 50 400m and sub 23 200s. </p>
<p>It is extremely difficult working that hard to get to the sub 50 level and keep your grades up. I am currently trying to get sub 49, maybe even high 47s.</p>
<p>wait wait wait…mid-distance to long distance runners at ivies can compete with div 1 schools. In fact columbia’s 4x800m relay team was #1 in the country PERIOD. It’s much harder to get recreuited as a mid-long then as a sprinter.</p>
<p>lol, any basketball players in this forum?</p>
<p>Yah man, represent for the Forwards/Power Forwards up in ottawa,ontario, canada man… Played basketball+soccer simultaneously for 12 years… i quit soccer a while back and basketball slowly weaved out with a few exceptions of teaching it… Im more into Boxing right now, i fenced a lot, played rugby, just a natural athlete you know… ill have to stop boxing thought cuz that might jeopardize my intellectual aspect as a human to cope with school/getting punched in the face (i usually try to avoid this and scramble my opponent into hitting my gut rather than my s3xy face 
lol)</p>
<p>By the way, stanford kid, you’re 5’10/5’11 ey, i was training for boxing alongside an amazing basketball player whose only limitation was his vertical leap… i showed him some quick things we do to increase leg stamina and muscle in boxing that wont slow you down but tone you up and lean you… My advice is if you wanna jump higher, try not gaining so much muscle mass… like my job as a boxer is to minimize my weight and emphasize on my quickness… the leaner i am without in-taking a huge amount of mass is beneficial to me… I do a lot of skip roping and volleyball routine jump workouts… i’ve increased my vertical leap a lot considering i’m about 6’3/6’4 right about now at around 185 pounds… i’m still trying to get more lean though at least lose a couple of pounds here and there instead of gaining… thing is for me im lucky, im gonna graduate high school at 17 years old and i can train for 1 extra year before actually trying out for competitive sport at uni…</p>
<p>in summary:</p>
<p>cardio+simple leg workouts= you’ll be beastly at jumping. LOL</p>