does distance running affect sprinting????

[saruknight]

i've recently started working on my endurance running and i'm wondering if you end up losing any speed in the sprint. naturally, i'm a sprinter, but felt my endurance needed work. if your curious my 100 mtr is in the high 10sec mark XD

[bbabb22]

Dont run over two miles. For endurance i would reccomnd a pyramid workout. Im a 330 hurdler and that the majority of my workouts.

[bbabb22]

here is an example of a pryramid workout. These help with endurance as well as speed.

pyramid(these are to be done at full speed with 2-3 minutes rest between each one)
there are many different ways to do these i like to switch them up everyweek here are a couple
(four 100s, three 200's, two 300's, one 400, two 300's, three 200's, four 100's)
(two 200's, two 400's, two 600's, two 400's, two 200's)
those are just two you could do. these two will give you the idea so you can make your own up.

what events other than the 100 do you do?

[g_samsa]

long distance running and sprinting use two entirely different sets of muscles. Long distance runners frequently work on sprints as it helps them with a finnishing kick but they never intentionaly build a sprinters body shape. A sprinter will never want to do any seriouse distance because it will very rapidly change his posture and gait. You will be doing youself harm if you do too much distance. I'd talk to a professional coach as to what the appropriate distance for you might be where it would't affect your performance.

Some distance is always good but for a dedicated sprinter, not much.

[ddd0004]

Sprinting and distance running are two different forms of exercise. Sprinting is an primarily anaerobic form of exercise (You are using a greater volume of oxygen than your body can intake) where as distance running is to a greater degree aerobic exercise

The answer is yes, distance running does affect sprinting but to what degree is difficult to say. The benefits of training in distance running include cardiovascular conditioning and improving your anaerobic threshold among many other benefits. Will this directly translate to faster sprinting times? Maybe slightly, but I'd think that you would be better suited with a strength or plyometric training program.