Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Monday, May 09, 2005 Strength trainingI've been thinking of doing some strength training this summer. Summer, with the hot weather and few O' races, would be a good time to do some indoor training. Summer is long enough that I'd have time to develop some strength and get a sense of whether it was worth the trouble.Currently, I do no strength training. Over the years I've done a bit, mostly some exercises like sit-up and push-ups. I've noticed that I get a bit stronger. I haven't noticed if that strength is worth anything as an orienteer. Before I change my training, I thought I'd take a look at how some other orienteers train. I looked at 20 orienteers who keep their training logs on the web. Most of these people use Attackpoint, but I've also got national team runners from Scandinavia including Emma Engstrand, Kim Fagerudd and Pasi Ikonen. I started with a simple question -- in the last two weeks, how many strength training sessions did these 20 orienteers do? No strength session -- 4 orienteers 1 strength session -- 4 2 strength sessions -- 4 3 strength sessions -- 3 4 strength sessions -- 3 5 strength session -- 2 In my non-random sample, it looks like nearly half of the orienteers do almost no strength training (figuring 1 session in a two week period is essentially worthless). On the other hand, 5 did 4 or 5 sessions a week. That number would probably be a bit higher if the two week period I looked at hadn't included the World Cup races in England. It looks like people are all over the place in terms of strength training. I knew that without looking. So, looking at all of these training logs didn't really teach me anything (though confirming something I expected is worthwhile). Let's hope I have something more interesting to write tomorrow! posted by Michael | 9:07 PM 
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