Turnabouts is a running session I really benefited from as an athlete, especially when I was either behind on training, needed to be able to get my body restarted or to help with upping my pace on my runs. I have noticed that a lot people who run that want to increase their average pace don’t know why they can’t. Well to put it bluntly, you are just not training to do that. If you are a runner who goes out the door on a run, running the same pace or slower for every run how do you expect to up the anti? There are many other running sessions that you may or may not have heard of that can improve running capabilities for example: Fartlec, Tempo/Threshold, Intervals, Repetitions. Turnabouts whether you do them on the road, grass, track, pool (water running), cross trainer, rower, elliptical or bike is your choice, but how you train has a massive impact on your performance.Turnabouts are a great way of increasing your pace by basically running faster than normal over a short distance. However to get the training effect you do multiple runs with a relatively short recovery. An example of what I did when I needed a quick fix fitness improvement session for running (mostly coming back from injury) was the following:3 x 10 x 100m in 14-15sec (same recovery in between each run). Sometimes it was only 2 x 10 x 100m. The amount of sets, runs, speed and recovery you do is dependent on what you are trying to achieve with your training.
