FFF 040: The Benefits Of Sprint Training & How To Incorporate It Into Your Exercise Routine - with Laura Turner-Alleyne
The Food For Fitness Podcast | Nutrition | Training | Lifestyle | Healthy Living
Scott Baptie
4.8 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2016
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
This week Laura Turner-Allenye is on the show to chat all about how sprint training can benefit not only sprinters but footballers, triathletes and casual runners alike.
Laura has an impressive background as a GB athlete and her 12 year international athletics career saw her compete at the Beijing Olympics, win 5 UK titles and a Commonwealth Games Gold Medal. These days, she is a top coach.
With an MSc in Sport Sciences (High Performance Physiology) she works with professional athletes, weekend warriors and every day folks who want to get fitter, stronger and faster.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you tired of falling off the proverbial fitness bandwagon? |
| 0:04.1 | Join us as we share simple, realistic, and above all, achievable weight loss advice |
| 0:09.5 | based on evidence gathered from helping hundreds of people look, feel, move, and perform better. |
| 0:15.5 | You don't need to starve yourself or hop on the latest fitness craze. |
| 0:19.1 | We'll show you how the smallest change can give you the largest impact. |
| 0:23.1 | Now join your healthy living host, Scott Baptee, for the Food for Fitness podcast. |
| 0:36.2 | Welcome to episode 40 of the Food for Fitness podcast, brought to you by foodfor Fitness.co. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm your host, Scott Maptay, and with a bit of a hoarse throat due to this horrible cold that's going around, I have a great guest on the show for you today. |
| 0:52.4 | Laura Turner-Alene is a former G.B. Olympian. |
| 0:57.3 | She has competed at the Beijing Olympics in hurdles and now she is a top level speed coach, |
| 1:05.5 | speed and sprint coach. So in this episode we'll be talking all about sprint training, |
| 1:29.5 | what it is and how it's not just, you know, going down to the track and just running for 100 metres upon 100 meters. We'll be looking at the benefits, how you can incorporate some sprint training into your routine, how you can do it in the gym and down on the track, how you can do it outside, how long a session should be, we'll be looking at the importance of periodizing your training, so |
| 1:34.7 | you have different goals at different times of the year and why is this a good idea? |
| 1:38.7 | We're looking at some of the common running mistakes she sees people make and it's |
| 1:43.3 | generally just an all-round winner of a podcast, |
| 1:46.0 | especially if you are already doing some form of exercise. If you're a complete beginner, |
| 1:51.2 | this episode might not be for you, but if you are training two to three times a week or you |
| 1:55.8 | play sport, then this episode is going to be really beneficial and she's going to give you |
| 2:00.0 | some top advice that's going to give you some top advice that's |
| 2:01.1 | going to help you get stronger faster and fitter and before we move on to podcast just a reminder to |
| 2:07.3 | check out the high protein handbook obviously if you're into your health and fitness you are |
| 2:11.9 | that's why you're listening to this podcast the high protein handbook is my new ebook that has 30 |
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