Can I do strides everyday

eurodonkey wrote:

Maybe you got older too?

That'd be part of the other developmental areas.

It is fine, but I think a lot of people on that posted here is not doing "strides", but rather a 100m repeats workout.

if you are counting how many you are running, measuring the distance and timing them, you are not doing strides. They should be run as a progression on whatever distance and whatever time you feel on that particular day. Running 100m on tired legs while trying to hit a specific time or distance is a good recipe for pulling a muscle.

Also, each stride should be run with a full rest. 1 minute, 2 minutes, whatever, it does not matter as long as it is more than 60 seconds. They are meant for practicing good form and loosening up muscles, not training speed endurance.

You should feel good after the strides, not more tired.

CarlyRaeJepsensMalort wrote:

sometimes i count footfalls. left foot hits ground 45 times = roughly 30 seconds. close enough. for 100 meter strides you could count 25. you could also just go by time on the watch, or just wing it. one other thing i sometimes do is do a stride the length of my block. blocks in my city are 1/8th of a mile in the north-south direction. so they're a good length for a long-ish stride.

Similar. I count double steps progressively faster to 20-25 and that paces the progression and effort and time well. There is progression also from the first to the last cause often there is a shorter stride and resistance in the legs in the first two strides compared to the 3 last.

TooLazyToResetPassword wrote:

On easy, recovery, and long run days I put in 8x100m strides at the end. I start out slow, build up, then slow back down. Usually takes around 28-30 seconds. I go on the minute (30-32 seconds rest). I feel that this has helped my form a lot since I'm hyper focused on it during the strides.

Wait - your strides take 28-30 seconds??

Mickk Jogger wrote:

maybe a dumb question. But for those that do 100's at the end of an easy day, how do you figure your distance of 100 meters? by eyesight? Pick a spot that looks like a football field away?

If I've planned them ahead of time, I have a few 100m repeat workout programmed into my garmin (100m x 10). If i decide to do it on the fly I'll either hit the lap button on my Garmin and go for 0.06 mi, or sometimes I do them by feel, estimating about 20 sec, in my head. I don't consider strides a major "workout" I need to get exactly right, by time, distance or pace. They're more about feel. I'm trying to loosen up the less and activate some fast twitch muscle fibers without feeling destroyed or pulling something.

I think if you're timing strides, you're doing something other than strides. Strides are a drill, like A skips, karaoke, etc. They're to warm up and get a wider range of motion than you'd get in a warm up jog. I suppose you could time them to see how you feel... if the effort matches the pace, but I never time my strides.

Probably an unpopular opinion, but I find strides on easy runs absolutely useless ... I do 3-4x ~100m accelerations w/ walking back rest before interval workouts, but I don't think it's necessary to add them at the end of an easy run where you're already tired from the run + hard session from the previous day.

The benefit is minimal, probably just a mental thing and there's a risk of hurting yourself. Strides are also pretty slow so there isn't much for speed development... I'd say do them before your workouts to prep your body to run a bit quicker, (after the warmup + drills) but there's no point in doing them everyday after easy runs / long runs

I also have pretty decent speed without doing too many strides, 4:01 miler