What's Your Workout Today VSGers - Wednesday!
I strained my lower back yesterday doing squats (on the last one no less) so this may be a rest day for me. But my plan is for only one workout today and that is to head over to the local public track with my daughter today to run 10 60 yard sprints. Full out as fast as we can run 60 yards and repeat that 10 times. This is to help develop the fast twitch muscle fibers in my legs.
Once you start digging into exercise physiology a bit you learn there are different types of muscle fibers and if you just work on one, you don't get the benefits of fully developed muscles. Fast twitch are the muscles you use when you run fast or dodge left/right, etc. Slow twitch muscle fibers are what are developed when you do strength training or for most of us fatties from carrying around a bunch of excess weight for years. I have huge muscular thighs and calves but I am a fairly slow runner, this is because I have very little developed fast twitch muscle fiber and an excess of slow twitch muscle fiber. As I do more sprints and shuttle runs I am gaining some speed.
