Originally Posted by
roadwarrior
A friend of mine by the name of Phil Campbell wrote a book on the science of sprint work. Sprint 8 Protocol. It will give the researched reasons why that exercise method is superior.
It's funny now because you see all these exercise equipment companies now advocating short hard sprints with full recovery.
Phil has been doing speedcamps for years for runners...and he has coached a boatload of NFL speed demons. Training fast twitch muscles is how you get faster. But you can't do it every day. Phil advocates 3 days a week. Phil is also a multi time national senior track champion.
I find sprinting outdoors to be very helpful, but indoors I just can't quite do it, but maybe that's because I haven't tried it on my smart trainer yet. There was something about a fluid trainer that made it unrealistic. I'll have to try a sprint session on my new trainer, so far I've done hills and an open road session on Zwift, and a hill session on The Sufferfest. As much as I want to put the trainer through its paces, I'm trying to ride outdoors as much as I can before the weather gets too miserable for it. We still have a long winter ahead.