Summer Conditioning

[boone7247]

I know Kansas goes through a "hell week" at the beginning of practice. I know I always had to go through that for sports in high school too. Probably not a bad idea.

I went to a small school and was lucky enough to play football, basketball, track and baseball. The first week of basketball practice was the worst. Give me two a day football practice any time over the first week of basketball. Our high school had a ramp that connected the commons to the halls for classes. That ramp was torture for a week. Basketball uses so many different muscles. I agree, I don't think we need to concern ourselves with these guys having a baseline of fitness.

Also considering they are in shape I don't think 30 second 200s and 75 second 400s would be over taxing them to much. That said, it would be a ***** to complete.

 

[Dryburn]

The first prayer requests may be to end the early morning workouts.

 

[BoxsterCy]

I am pretty sure they are playing enough basketball, lifting weights, and doing other conditioning that they have a good baseline built up and should be just fine with the workout that was mentioned.

I am sure you are right. Just a thought i had but the last time I ran intervals 400s were 440s. :smile:

 

[mj4cy]

I did anything I could to get out of 400 intervals in track in highschool. Worst. Ever.

 

[DeereClone]

I am sure you are right. Just a thought i had but the last time I ran intervals 400s were 440s. :smile:

400 intervals are no fun for anyone (440s are even worse! ha) but these are great athletes in the prime of their lives.

 

[Wesley]

With the running, Georges might get down to 220.

 

[carvers4math]

It sounded like it is once a week and that was the last one. I just assumed they already did this kind of stuff, although I had no idea they previously were doing hot yoga.

 

[Antihawk240]

400 intervals are no fun for anyone (440s are even worse! ha) but these are great athletes in the prime of their lives.

Granted, I ran track at Iowa State so the 5 repeat 200's under 30 seconds and the 400's under 75's made me chuckle. But with that said, they obviously specialize in basketball, I imagine they would laugh hysterically if they saw me play basketball in college.

Actually, what Boxster is talking about is he probably ran when it was 440 YARDS not meters. 440 yards equals 400 meters (technically 402 meters to be precise).

What the article doesn't say is what the recovery time inbetween reps are. If it was 60 seconds, I could see how a big guy like Burton would be huffing, if it was 2 minutes, then we as fan should be concerned about their conditioning and it is a good thing they are out on the track working out.

Just to get my shoulders and head nice and puffy for the weekend. For our track preseason workout at Iowa State we had to do the "Campanile 200's" on central campus. Beardshear to Curtis under 25 seconds or it didnt count. 12 of them, 90 seconds rest inbetween. The faster you ran on the last one meant you got the closer garbage can.

Again, we were track runners not basketball players. But, now that I've proceeded to kill the buzz, carry on!

 

[cyclonedave25]

Like the discipline team building aspect but not so sure about doing intervals like that if you have not done some base running miles. Just jumping in, even for conditioned athletes, doesn't sound like that good of an idea and it's not something track guys would do.

You don't need a base to do interval training, you just need to be tough (mentally and physically).

Moser knows what he's doing.

 

[jay moe]

Agreed, this stuff is all about accountability, team building, and mental toughness.

 

[Cydkar]

oh geez, I read the whole article and I take away 3 things:

1. Burton is going to quit the team
2. Niang is going to tear something in his knee
3. Babb is going to have shin splints

Being a Cyclone fan has lead me to read way to much onto the negative side, sorry guys

Weird

 

[Cydkar]

400 intervals are no fun for anyone (440s are even worse! ha) but these are great athletes in the prime of their lives.

Almost identical distance

 

[IASTATE4LIFE]

Granted, I ran track at Iowa State so the 5 repeat 200's under 30 seconds and the 400's under 75's made me chuckle. But with that said, they obviously specialize in basketball, I imagine they would laugh hysterically if they saw me play basketball in college.

Actually, what Boxster is talking about is he probably ran when it was 440 YARDS not meters. 440 yards equals 400 meters (technically 402 meters to be precise).

What the article doesn't say is what the recovery time inbetween reps are. If it was 60 seconds, I could see how a big guy like Burton would be huffing, if it was 2 minutes, then we as fan should be concerned about their conditioning and it is a good thing they are out on the track working out.

Just to get my shoulders and head nice and puffy for the weekend. For our track preseason workout at Iowa State we had to do the "Campanile 200's" on central campus. Beardshear to Curtis under 25 seconds or it didnt count. 12 of them, 90 seconds rest inbetween. The faster you ran on the last one meant you got the closer garbage can.

Again, we were track runners not basketball players. But, now that I've proceeded to kill the buzz, carry on!

Also a former track guy and I also chuckled at the times. I would think most of these guys wouldn't have any issues with it. It definitely isn't too much to ask of them. I believe our 200-400 interval times had to be under 23 and 50 if I remember correctly. 30 and 75 is border line jogging, especially for our guards.

 

[istater7]

Also a former track guy and I also chuckled at the times. I would think most of these guys wouldn't have any issues with it. It definitely isn't too much to ask of them. I believe our 200-400 interval times had to be under 23 and 50 if I remember correctly. 30 and 75 is border line jogging, especially for our guards.

These guys aren't track athletes. A basketball team is much different from a track team.

 

[SpokaneCY]

Almost identical distance

220, 221... whatever it takes.

 

[SpokaneCY]

These guys aren't track athletes. A basketball team is much different from a track team.

But they are athletes and the sport they've played for years has always involved lots and lots of running.

 

[Cyched]

These guys aren't track athletes. A basketball team is much different from a track team.

[video]https://youtu.be/Ed1YDphG0-I?t=35[/video]

 

[balken]

Also a former track guy and I also chuckled at the times. I would think most of these guys wouldn't have any issues with it. It definitely isn't too much to ask of them. I believe our 200-400 interval times had to be under 23 and 50 if I remember correctly. 30 and 75 is border line jogging, especially for our guards.

A sub 23 second 200m will place you at the high school state track meet in most classes as would a sub 50 400m. These guys are running intervals. It mentions 5 200m intervals followed by 400m intervals. If you think basketball players in off season conditioning drills should be running under 23 and 50 your expectations are not remotely realistic.

 

[IASTATE4LIFE]

A sub 23 second 200m will place you at the high school state track meet in most classes as would a sub 50 400m. These guys are running intervals. It mentions 5 200m intervals followed by 400m intervals. If you think basketball players in off season conditioning drills should be running under 23 and 50 your expectations are not remotely realistic.

I didn't say they should run those times. That was a division 1 track work out interval training. But 30 and 75 is borderline jogging for a 20 year old division 1 athlete in almost any sport. Basketball is just a series of sprinting and jumping mixed with a lot of pushing and shoving. These guys should be pretty fast naturally.

 

[istater7]

But they are athletes and the sport they've played for years has always involved lots and lots of running.

You can't expect all of the athletes to run incredibly fast on a basketball team, for example the article said that it was difficult for the 7' walk on to make it in 75 seconds. I'm sure that the guards and the better athletes overall were able to go faster than 30 & 75.