Every so often, I play at sprinting. I'm currently in a phase
of playing more seriously at it, or at least thinking more
seriously of being more playful with it. Or something.
Anyhow, at Tuesday's club time trials, I ran a 60 m
and now have a baseline time. One area in which I know I'm
far from sprinterly form is turnover rate. For now it's
probably around 220, vs. the 270-300 of real sprinters.
When I'm in better shape, mainly by way of having done some
longer recovery 50-100 m repeats or flyins, I get to about
240 strides per minute.
What can I do to more specifically train up my turnover?
One thing I do, though not a training thing, but which does
help some, is switch away from mentally counting every stride
(1,2,3, 2,2,3, 3,2,3, 4,2,3, ...) to just going 'one and one
and ...'. It'd probably help to come up with a good piece of
music to work with, which, on a right foot count only, could
be mentally played at 135-150 bpm. Suggestions?
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