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What is Speed Reserve? Part 1 - 400 meter Sprinter types
Before I discuss the topic of speed reserve, I want to talk about the different types of 400 meter sprinters. Types of 400 meter runners 100/200 sprinters moving up to the 400m: In the past, short sprinters moving up the distance were rare. Remember Eric Liddell in Chariots of Fire? Today, we’ve seen some successful 100-200 sprinters move up like Quincy Watts because his short speed workouts and competitions caused him too many injuries. 200/400 combo: Other than Herb McKenley, Tommie...
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What is Speed Reserve? Part 1 - 400 meter Sprinter types
Before I discuss the topic of speed reserve, I want to talk about the different types of 400 meter sprinters. Types of 400 meter runners 100/200 sprinters moving up to the 400m: In the past, short sprinters moving up the distance were rare. Remember Eric Liddell in Chariots of Fire? Today, we’ve seen some successful 100-200 sprinters move up like Quincy Watts because his short speed workouts and competitions caused him too many injuries. 200/400 combo: Other than Herb McKenley, Tommie...
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What is Speed Reserve? Part 1 - 400 meter Sprinter types
Before I discuss the topic of speed reserve, I want to talk about the different types of 400 meter sprinters. Types of 400 meter runners 100/200 sprinters moving up to the 400m: In the past, short sprinters moving up the distance were rare. Remember Eric Liddell in Chariots of Fire? Today, we’ve seen some successful 100-200 sprinters move up like Quincy Watts because his short speed workouts and competitions caused him too many injuries. 200/400 combo: Other than Herb McKenley, Tommie...
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NIKEiD and Kobe Bryant Collaborate for Christmas
NIKEiD AND KOBE BRYANT COLLABORATE FOR A SPECIAL HOLIDAY SURPRISE BEAVERTON, OR – NIKE, Inc. and reigning NBA MVP Kobe Bryant are celebrating breakthrough innovation with a festive flair this holiday season and beyond. Beginning December 25, 2008, Bryant’s new Nike Zoom Kobe IV, his fourth signature shoe with the brand, will be available on NIKEiD.com with more than 5 billion design variations; an unprecedented combination of color, material and pattern options. The Zoom Kobe IV offering marks...
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Preventing ACL Injuries Videos
LA84foundation.org is the web site for the Legacy of The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games that has several excellent Free Track and Cross Country Coaching Books. There is a web-based lesson for athletes, coaches, trainers and parents on how to prevent ACL injuries. While it may appear to focus on soccer, it applies to any sports where ACL injuries are common, such as basketball or football. Here is the link to the videos (Quicktime required). The lesson is a collaboration between the LA84 Foundation...
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Increase Vertical Jump with Plyometric Exercises
The vertical jump is one of many tests performed at the Football Combine. The following speed, power and explosive tests are as follows: 40 yard dash Vertical Jump Max 225 Bench Reps Standing Long Jump For Football quickness and agility, they may do the following: Pro-Agility Test (lateral agility or I-test) J or L cone Test (another agility test performed in the shape of an L) 3-Cone drill - the athlete does a figure 8 up and back around the cones 20-yard shuttle 60 yard shuttle For a rough...
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2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony - Free or Buy
If you want to relive the 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremonies, you have a couple of choices. You can ask a friend who recorded it on their TiVo or PVR… if they still have it. You can buy the 2008 Beijing Opening Ceremony 2-Volume DVD from NBCDVD for $29.99 Or you can watch it re-broadcasted on NBC on Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008 at 8pm EST. The broadcast is called, Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony: TV Event of the Year, a two-hour special hosted by Bob Costas and Matt Lauer. Both Costas...
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Latest News from the IAAF
6 January 2009 - Uganda’s Commonwealth 10,000m champion Boniface Kiprop hopes 2009 will finally be the year he climbs a major championship medal podium on the global senior stage after a series of finishes in that most unwelcome and cruel fourth position.
6 January 2009 - As a result of their outstanding performances at the Beijing Olympic Games, Australia have pre-selected six athletes for the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Berlin, Germany (15 to 23 Aug 2009).
6 January 2009 – Finland have made seven pre-selections ahead of next summer’s 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Berlin, Germany (15 to 23 Aug 2009).
5 January 2009 – Prior to last summer’s Olympic Games, Natalya Dobrynska hadn’t won a single major international multi-event competition. Indeed, heading to Beijing, her modest accomplishments kept her well off the radar screen as a potential successor to Carolina Klüft. But when she crossed the line of the 800m the 26-year-old Ukrainian loomed large, standing before a trail of exhausted bodies as the Olympic Heptathlon champion.
5 January 2009 - Monte-Carlo - Despite the economic downturn the IAAF has enjoyed a vintage year in 2008 in commercial terms and is now looking forward to building on the success of athletics at the Beijing Olympic Games at the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Berlin and beyond.
5 January 2009 - Six more reigning World or Olympic medallists have been added to the stellar field for the Aviva Grand Prix in Birmingham on 21 February. The meeting is one of ten IAAF Indoor Permit meetings in 2009.
4 January 2009 - Amorebieta, Spain - Eritrea’s Samuel Tsegay provided a major upset today by taking a surprise win at the ‘55th Cross Internacional Zornotza’.
4 January 2009 - Edwin Soi and Sergiy Lebid will return to the Campaccio EAA Permit Cross Country race on 6 January one year after the fabulous nail-biting neck-to-neck race won by the Kenyan by the narrowest of margins after a breathtaking sprint.
3 January 2009 - Antrim, UK - World Junior 1500m champion Stephanie Twell opened her competitive year in style with a mature victory in the Antrim International to further cement her flowering reputation as one to watch for the future.
3 January 2009 - Reno, Nevada, USA – Chelsea Johnson couldn’t wait to get her 2009 season started at the National Pole Vault Summit at the Reno Events Livestock Center on Friday.
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- Track and Field Starting Blocks Evolution
- Million Dollar Man Richard Thompson - Bigger than Ato Bolden?
- NIKEiD and Kobe Bryant Collaborate for Christmas
- Olympic 100 meter Sprint Videos
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- 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony - Free or Buy
