Conditioning for American Football, a mid-level Sport in terms of Endurance Requirements
So in summary my estimates of mile time ability in minutes or maybe and mile time requirement in minutes for players in various sports in competition levels such as college and above are as follows:
Soccer 5.63 (five point six three minutes); basketball 6.0; tennis (simply estimated to be similar to basketball) 6.25; football 6.75; baseball 7.25; and track sports, 6.50. Thus the average for these 6 sports is 6.40. The two sports closest to this average are tennis and football. Thus for me now the best starting point for understanding conditioning for these sports in general is football, since right now the estimate for tennis is a mere guess and I know little as of now about conditioning for tennis. Seems that to get into some kind of acceptable shape for these sports in general, you would want to get into the kind of shape acceptable for football players.
The pamphlet describing the training regimen for the U of Cincinatti Bearcats football team is online. Seems that what they reccommend, as a form of training if would be players are to pass their dreaded Interval Sprinting Conditioning Test, is, sprinting "intervals". An "interval" is sprinted by dashing the width of the football field (53.33 yards), touching the sideline, then dashing back to the other sideline covering a total of 106.7 yards.
For example for receivers, defensive backs, tailbacks and quarterbacks they recommend a set of ten intervals be run in 16 seconds each with rests of 35 seconds between the running of each "interval", followed after an extended rest by another such set of ten "intervals", this time each set being run in 17 seconds with a 45 second rest between the running of each "interval". This routine if you would be able to do it, would take you 160+350+170+450=1130=18.83 minutes to finish.
See my notes regarding this topic at:
http://www.angelfire.com/ma/vincemoon/fball_training.htm
Soccer 5.63 (five point six three minutes); basketball 6.0; tennis (simply estimated to be similar to basketball) 6.25; football 6.75; baseball 7.25; and track sports, 6.50. Thus the average for these 6 sports is 6.40. The two sports closest to this average are tennis and football. Thus for me now the best starting point for understanding conditioning for these sports in general is football, since right now the estimate for tennis is a mere guess and I know little as of now about conditioning for tennis. Seems that to get into some kind of acceptable shape for these sports in general, you would want to get into the kind of shape acceptable for football players.
The pamphlet describing the training regimen for the U of Cincinatti Bearcats football team is online. Seems that what they reccommend, as a form of training if would be players are to pass their dreaded Interval Sprinting Conditioning Test, is, sprinting "intervals". An "interval" is sprinted by dashing the width of the football field (53.33 yards), touching the sideline, then dashing back to the other sideline covering a total of 106.7 yards.
For example for receivers, defensive backs, tailbacks and quarterbacks they recommend a set of ten intervals be run in 16 seconds each with rests of 35 seconds between the running of each "interval", followed after an extended rest by another such set of ten "intervals", this time each set being run in 17 seconds with a 45 second rest between the running of each "interval". This routine if you would be able to do it, would take you 160+350+170+450=1130=18.83 minutes to finish.
See my notes regarding this topic at:
http://www.angelfire.com/ma/vincemoon/fball_training.htm
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