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OLD BOY JACKSON ON SPRINT TRAINING Firstly, they're meant to hurt, they're designed that way! The interval training raises lactic acid levels in the muscles [that's what makes them hurt], and then makes you go again before your body has had long enough to remove the lactate from the system. It also puts you into oxygen debt. The body is gasping for air because you're forced to work above the aerobic threshold. Secondly, you do need to pace yourself in order to keep the intervals at a reasonably constant pace. There's a free supply of instant energy in the muscles [in the form of creatine phoshpate] which gets used up in the first interval or two, and means that they don't hurt as much. This is the anerobic alactate energy path [doesn't need oxygen, and doesn't produce lactic acid]. Once this is exhausted you're relying on the lactate mechanism which is the painful bit. Depending on the length of time between intervals, you're either training the body to remove lactate rapidly [long intervals], or training the body to tolerate higher levels of lactate in the bloodstream [shorter intervals]. The standard approach is to work on tolerance first, and production/removal closer to the event [I think the standard 10 Week sprint training has longer rests later on to work on speed]. In case you're not already, keep moving between sprints. This keeps the blood flowing and helps to flush the lactate away. Breathe deeply to get plenty of oxygen into the system. Drink something isotonic during intervals. Foodwise, you shouldn't need to eat anything specific in the days before training. Just stick to the normal type of high carbohydrate diet. Pasta, potatoes, rice, fresh veg and fruit, the normal kind of stuff we all know we should eat more often . . . If you're training at 7pm on a normal working day, make sure you eat good healthy meals at breakfast and lunchtime. About an hour or so before training eat a snack high in simple carbohydrates which can be readily turned into instant energy, e.g. toast with honey, bananas, honey nut cornflakes. The complex carbohydrates [pasta/potatoes etc] take too long or the body to turn into useful fuel to eat just before training. After training make sure you eat something within 15 minutes. This speeds up the body's recovery processes, and is essential if you're going to be able to train regularly. Then eat a proper meal later.

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