I play ball hockey and it's basically constant 1 minute sprints and 1 minute rests. Usually my cardio is good enough to go but my legs end up being insanely tired just after the first half.

What can I do to increase my leg endurance so that my legs aren't done before my cardio is?

so you play ball?
tell me more.

Ball hockey? Hockey but running and with a ball on a floor

He's trolling u lol.

For real though...you just got to keep at it. Build up your cardio.

Other stuff can help:
- walk more
- swim laps
- bike
- etc
- or trying sprint drills...

I play ice hockey, basketball, water polo. All high intensity sports. I'm able to recover just fine after resting for a bit. Sprint, rest, sprint again.

Oh and make sure your nutrition is in check - eg got enough energy stores to last you through the game. Drink Gatorade also when resting.

This post was edited by PartyInMyPants on Dec 6 2015 11:10pm

Recently I had games back to back. I was playing Thursday Friday . Was always a bit tired for my Friday games , I also use to squat on Friday mornings but I got rid of that and only squat 1x a week on Tuesday.

Thinking about adding HIIT on Wednesday

hiit will do it

Join army.

3 months ago I couldn't even do 100 bodyweight squats, then we started doing bodyweight squats with 30-60 second pauses at the bottom, approx 30-50 reps, ruck marches, sprints, lunges, and general running around in ffo.

now I can do over 250 (although it gets insanely painful around 150, and then form looks weird AF past that point, it's harder to bend the knees cuz quads so tight and you kinda spring up and then it fucking burns then you're trying to get back down again lol)

I'm not joining the army so I can get better cardio for ball hockey.

use jsp time to take a walk instead

Quit playing. If it's not naturally easy for you, then don't do it? Why would someone want to actually have to work to get better at something..?