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no way of measuring on the road
watch plus map?
welcome gps watch squad, it's a game changer
i dont think treadmill will translate too well, but you never know. i imagine if you were already proficient in road running, that treadmill could be swapped in/out etc. but, going from treadmill to roads/track could be rough.
very curious to see how it goes tho!
Any major high schools around your area or Little Athletics Clubs? You may be surprised and find a track closer than 25 minutes away.
i think it is for sure.. but not half court. intense full court should get you fit. adding stuff in will only help (line drills, gassers etc). but ya, i wouldn't expect half court to get you anywhere fit for full.
it'll definitely help. bball is start/stop tho. if you want to really improve your ability in game, without playing games, you need to mimic that a few times per week at least. could be part of your 5k run, just mixing it up fartlek style (sprint/jog/sprint/jog) random stuff etc. additionally, basketball is start/stop using all kinds of forward/backward/lateral movements, so - very different than linear running (which is alot easier). changing direction is rough and takes alot more energy. but still, 5k every day is much better than nothing. it'll surely help considerably.
. Literally have never been fit in my whole life and i was seduced by the idea that just playing basketball was enough to 'build endurance' for basketball. Or running some intervals lol. Probably never played that much full court basketball in any case but even when i did regularly albeit infrequently (1-2x week) i would always redline very quickly into a competive game. I'm talking about seconds into the game, probably because my adrenaline gets jacked way up and my HR maxes out almost immediately. Never figured it out but the demands on conditioning are pretty high and i don't think just 'playing ball' is a good way to train for that conditioning. Which means to me, somehow, people who do play basketball regularly and do so in good condition for the sport must have developed the fitness in a way I missed out. Maybe it was high school training which probably involved a steady diet of suicides or long steady jogs etc etc which i never did because i didn't play basketball in school. ya i'd never buy a treadmill. if some facility has one that goes way up in speed to occasionally use, cool. if not, real sprinting.
Nah don't worry about some hypothetical better way, it doesn't exist. Your experience is more valuable because you know what works for your body and training. 1 week cut/bulk cycles are a bad idea though because you never give your body a chance to 'adapt' to fat loss / reduced calories which is what you need to burn fat efficiently. Keeping a weekly deficit but eating more calories around training helps you recomp and recover from training, which makes sense and seems to work well in practice.
If 1 week cycles never give my body a chance to adapt to fat loss, then what about cycles even smaller than that like i’m currently doing?
Currently I’m trying to maintain bodyweight while getting back closer to my previous PRs. I lift 4x/week (upper/lower split). On lift days i aim for +500 caloric surplus and >200g protein. On off days i am for -500 caloric deficit and 150g protein. I weigh about 185lbs now and i would say im 11% bf. I also do IF.
Does it make sense to do this? Am i better off doing 1 week cut/bulk cycles for body recomp instead? 4 week cycles?
