Does jogging make you slower?
My friend said that your body gets used to the speed your going when your jogging and you start to sprint slower. Is this true.
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Well yes, but it's not permanent. It's temporarily true because when I transition from cross country to track, my first couple of track races are not as fast because I'm used to "cross country" speed. After a couple of weeks though, my legs bounce back into "track speed". Jogging only makes your legs stronger, so you should end up able to sprint faster, but not at first. Your body just needs time to transition from jog-speed to sprint-speed. If you practice sprinting, and you give it some time, you will find that you may be able to sprint even faster than before.Only if you stop your speed work. If you keep up your interval training AND add jogging, then you're going to get faster. See the link below for more info. Hope that helped.
- Mike
If your intent is to run fast, then you need to run fast to develop that aspect of running. Jogging only will cause your muscles to train to that speed. If you do speed intervals then the jogging is a cardio training that helps you develop a base for the speed training and is helpful in recovery.
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If you focus on only distance and not speed during your training, this is likely to happen.If you continue your sprint training*, along with your jogs, i see no reason why you should slow down. There is a big difference between the build of sprinters(muscular and mean) and long distance runners(lean and mean), just check them out the next time you watch an altheletics event.
Alot depends how you train yourself and your mental power. With all things equal, the guy/gal with stronger mental strength and focus wins..
*Explosive muscular power training, i.e. weights, sprints.
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