<p>So I was just wondering if anyone does cross country and if they have a strict overachiever schedule for it! I want to go running every morning before school but I also want to do some other exercises. Does anyone know a good schedule for it?</p>
<p>Cross country kids at my school have practice daily for like 2 hours.</p>
<p>Thanks:) do you know what exactly they do?</p>
<p>I was in it for a week before I quit because I wanted to kill myself.</p>
<p>They ran around the football field 10 times, did drills up the huge hill by the school, ran around the area, and then did things like planks and squats for painfully long amounts of time.</p>
<p>Is it bad that I just got really excited as I read that? </p>
<p>Haha, thank you so much:) Anyone else know of any workouts and routines?</p>
<p>Varsity at my school has 3 hour daily practices after school and i think jv is around 2.5 hours :)</p>
<p>Do they do any specific exercises?</p>
<p>Our varsity team dose warm ups ( abb workout, streaching and that sort of thing) then a route anywhere between 3 to 7 miles as fast as you can. Practice is usually 2.5 - 3 hours.</p>
<p>What type of ab workouts?</p>
<p>A ten minute circuit including crunches and planks. Then with that a 5 minute arm workout with our shoes.</p>
<p>@twix123 Thanks:) I can’t wait to add that to my workout.</p>
<p>Intermittent speed workouts are also part of the job. And its a lot of fun on a team… By yourself, not so much. Just join the team dude, its worth it.</p>
<p>Holy craap, I was going to do cross country… I guess not now. x)</p>
<p>I can’t join the team because of work:/</p>
<p>I’m on my school’s XC team. We practice 7:30am to 9:30am, so a good 2 hour workout. We ran around the track for warm ups 2 times, and stretched. Every day consisted of a different workout. Such as running around the area, sprints, hills, steps. It’s fun and I met a lot of new people. If you want to stay in shape and meet new people, you should join :)</p>
<p>Well my team was runner up at All states so our practices were pretty tough. First thing we did at every practice was run a trail in the woods (1.25-1.5 miles) for warmup. Then we did some drills and 6-8 stride outs, which is running down a football field at like 90% speed with like 30 seconds rest. After that we did some stretches. Then we did the actual run of the practice at 6:30 to 7:30 mile pace which ranged from 3 to 17 miles (yes 17, non-stop). But usually the average closer to like 9 miles. Then we did 4 more stride outs, some more stretching and finally an ab workout. The ab workout consisted of: 30 pushups, 30 crunches, 45 second plank, 30 leg extensions, mountain climbers, deadbugs, and Russian taps. And that was a typical cross country practice.</p>
<p>6 days a week for 2 years of that put me Inge best shape of my life. To be honest, cross country is more of a mental sport than physical because in race, you’ll feel like dropping out about 7492749 times but it takes mental willpower not physical stamina to keep going.</p>
<p>Heh, I tried cross country just for fun. Practice was about 2 hours, usually involving running around the football field, up and down the street, through the woods, up and down hills, with about 30 minutes of ab work-outs at the end. Ab workouts weren’t bad, but my god the running was awful. </p>
<p>I hated it for so much and that’s why I quit after about 3 weeks, lol. If there were a hell, it would consist of non-stop cross country practice. But to each their own, I guess.</p>
<p>Thanks guys, this is useful:)</p>
<p>My coach would just put up a ripped-off piece of paper from a yellow legal pad with JV and Varsity routes, and we were expected to choose one route and run it. They varied from 4 to 10 miles depending on the day. We’d usually have some stretching and really pathetic core workout program beforehand with, like, 30 seconds of planks and 30 sit-ups, or something like that. Occasionally we were expected to perform all of TEN push-ups. Yeah. Srs bsns.</p>
<p>It was after school and took as long as was necessary. </p>
<p>There were days when it took extra long, because we’d have some sort of interval training where we’d run a couple miles to a park or hill and then the coach would take us through a program of intense and moderate running. </p>
<p>Those days were not fun. I mostly just like to jog. I am not built for competitive running.</p>
<p>practice was about 2 hours after school, meets on saturdays a lot.</p>
<p>Runs were about 5 miles or so, more or less depending on ability</p>
<p>some days were just running a route, some days hill repeats, some intervals (like 5X1000m at race pace), some long runs, some “strength training” that is sprints and bodyweight lifting, combinations of the above, occasional weightlifting, frisbee, easy days before meets, etc. </p>
<p>It’s not just running the same route every day, that’s boring.</p>