backwards running?

Has anyone ever heard anything about backwards running being good for your hamstrings??

My coach told me this, and seeing as 80% of the things she's ever told me about running have turned out to be false, I thought I'd ask around.

I'm looking for info on some running websites, but I can't seem to find anything.

no, don't try it. there's nothing that it will give you that you can't get from doing something that looks halfway sensible.

my coach use to make us do a little bit in our warm-up, but she stopped doing it. I wouldn't bother.

Okay, thanks, that's what I thought.

Stupid and is a recipe for injury. Don't do it.

LOL your coach probably watched St. Ralph and decided to use it as a training guideline.

What other stupid stuff has your coach told you?

HXC_Runner2012 wrote:LOL your coach probably watched St. Ralph and decided to use it as a training guideline.

hahaahahaha

HXC_Runner2012 wrote:LOL your coach probably watched St. Ralph and decided to use it as a training guideline.

What other stupid stuff has your coach told you?

I think I need to watch that movie now. Not for any training advice, of course.

We should be doing long runs 30 seconds to a minute slower than race pace, building a base is not important (says the woman who ran a 5k pr during her marathon training ), I'm a faster runner than her (not relevant, but that was when I started to realize that she has no clue what she's talking about haha), and general stuff along the lines of "running 25mpw of intervals will help you a lot!"

a friend of mine from University of Wisconsin-Madison said their coach has them walk backwards on an inclined treadmill to work your hamstrings for about 6-8 minutes.
Now our high school team does it too.

xc running gal wrote:a friend of mine from University of Wisconsin-Madison said their coach has them walk backwards on an inclined treadmill to work your hamstrings for about 6-8 minutes.
Now our high school team does it too.

ya, when my dad hurt his hamstring, they had him do that in PT. the pts and trainers at my gym swear by it. (not running though...that seems stupid, although my winter coach had us do it in warmup and i would just fall over)

ND XC 23 wrote:

xc running gal wrote:a friend of mine from University of Wisconsin-Madison said their coach has them walk backwards on an inclined treadmill to work your hamstrings for about 6-8 minutes.
Now our high school team does it too.

ya, when my dad hurt his hamstring, they had him do that in PT. the pts and trainers at my gym swear by it. (not running though...that seems stupid, although my winter coach had us do it in warmup and i would just fall over)

thanks, maybe that's what my coach was thinking of and she just messed it up and said running instead

we do that sometimes for fun
but it stinks cause someone always ends up falling.

i do this thing where i run backwards on my toes for 15 seconds.I saw it in a dynamic stretching video but i think what ur talking about is different.

Its alright for a calf exercise sometimes. Hamstring? Its never affected that before so idk where you would get that. The only downside is the chance of falling. We do a backwards running type for warmups.

Through_the_Pain wrote:i do this thing where i run backwards on my toes for 15 seconds.I saw it in a dynamic stretching video but i think what ur talking about is different.

yeah, probably, because my coach told me to do maybe 4x100m of this and that would definitly take more than 15 seconds haha

CT Track wrote:Its alright for a calf exercise sometimes. Hamstring? Its never affected that before so idk where you would get that. The only downside is the chance of falling. We do a backwards running type for warmups.

Yeah, my coach told me that thing about it being for hamstrings... idk...

baby got track wrote:

HXC_Runner2012 wrote:LOL your coach probably watched St. Ralph and decided to use it as a training guideline.

What other stupid stuff has your coach told you?

I think I need to watch that movie now. Not for any training advice, of course.

We should be doing long runs 30 seconds to a minute slower than race pace, building a base is not important (says the woman who ran a 5k pr during her marathon training ), I'm a faster runner than her (not relevant, but that was when I started to realize that she has no clue what she's talking about haha), and general stuff along the lines of "running 25mpw of intervals will help you a lot!"

I'd recommend you get a new coach.

HXC_Runner2012 wrote:

baby got track wrote:

HXC_Runner2012 wrote:LOL your coach probably watched St. Ralph and decided to use it as a training guideline.

What other stupid stuff has your coach told you?

I think I need to watch that movie now. Not for any training advice, of course.

We should be doing long runs 30 seconds to a minute slower than race pace, building a base is not important (says the woman who ran a 5k pr during her marathon training ), I'm a faster runner than her (not relevant, but that was when I started to realize that she has no clue what she's talking about haha), and general stuff along the lines of "running 25mpw of intervals will help you a lot!"

I'd recommend you get a new coach.

She's our school coach for track and xc, I can't.
I usually just take what she says, and then do the opposite or just do something totally different.

It's definitely not something you want to do for a while or a ton that's for sure! It does work your hamstrings pretty well though if you go for about 50-100 meters. We did it as part of one of our relays on our relay day...it gets tiring.

Sounds like a big waste of time, or a good way to hurt yourself.

We do it every once in a while for track

i had a good workout when i did it up steep hills. but yea theres much better things to work your hamstrings...so get a new coach. 25mpw of speedwork?!?! thats insane

AudienceOfOne wrote:no, don't try it. there's nothing that it will give you that you can't get from doing something that looks halfway sensible.

Tracko will pounce on you if he ever reads that.

we do backwards running everyday in practice as a part of our plials (ex. geek walks, high knees, but kicks etc. i think theyre actually called polyometrics, im not to sure.)

geek walks?

is that where you go up on your toes then down really slowly as you walk?