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Staying Low on a 40 Yard Dash or 100 Meter Start

This article is guest blogged by Adarian Barr from Speedbynature.com
What is implied when a sprinter is instructed to stay low at the start and for the first 10 yards or meters of a sprint race?
Staying low has to do with the lean angle of the body from head to toe. The degree of being low […]

Nutrition for Athletics: The 2007 IAAF Consensus Statement - Final Thoughts

How much protein do athletes need?
What’s the best protein?
When should protein be consumed around training for optimal results?

>> Click here for the Ultimate Book on Protein Intake for all Strength, Power and Endurance Athletes
This summary is from the IAAF 2nd International Consensus Conference on “Nutrition for Athletics“ held in Monaco from […]

AAF-CIF Track & Field Coaching Manual Contest

This monster 425 page manual was written by Edward Derse and Skip Stolley, the AAF/CIF Coaching Program Coordinator.
Who is the AMATEUR ATHLETIC FOUNDATION?
The Amateur Athletic Foundation is the organization created to manage Southern California’s endowment from the Olympic Games. Located in the historic Britt House since 1985, the AAF has committed more than $60 million […]

Speedendurance.com Mission Statement

If you are reading this from your web browser, you can’t help but notice the ads on this page.
However, if you subscribe to my RSS feed, you can read the latest articles without the ads, except maybe for 1 embedded ad here and there.
Why So Many Ads?
The mission statement of Speedendurance.com is to […]

Sportsvite .com - Meet-up and Meet-me for Sports

If you are familiar with Meet-up and Meet-me, you’ll certainly love Sportsvite.com
Ever wanted to join a team, but couldn’t find the right players? You tried Craigslist, but to no avail?
Or, perhaps you moved to a new city and wanted to find a soccer, football or basketball team to join?
Enter Sportsvite.com
Sportsvite was started for […]

Nutrition for Travel - IAAF Nutrition for Athletics

This summary is from the IAAF 2nd International Consensus Conference on “Nutrition for Athletics“ held in Monaco from April 18-20, 2007. Copies of the CD and booklet are available from the IAAF website www.iaaf.org.
Nutrition for Travel
Presenter: Tom Reilly (GBR)
Travel across time zones and jet lag can have a profound effect on sleep, […]

Winner of the Herb McKenley DVD Contest

To make this contest fair, I entered all the emails from both the RSS subscribers and the Speedendurance.com newsletter using Random.org. This site is also good for choosing lottery numbers.
The Winner of the Herb McKenley DVD Contest is “Coachus”.
“Coachus” is a RSS to email reader, and the sign-up doesn’t ask for your name, but […]

Enviro-Sports Death Valley Marathon

I’ll be visiting my buddy Dave Horning from Enviro-Sports Productions this weekend.
Every year for the past 4 years, I make the trip to Las Vegas en route to Furnace Creek in Death Valley, California. But I don’t go in July; I go in February. It often coincides with the Super Bowl, so Hotel […]

Road Races Enforcing Bans on iPods - A Silly Rule?

There are some good rules and some silly ones.
For example, rings and earrings body piercing jewelry is prohibited in the high school system. I remember a high school female long jumper setting a PB, but when she raised her arms in jubilation, she exposed her belly button naval ring, and was thus disqualified.
Then there […]

Video on How to Improve Your 40 Yard Dash

I really opened a can of worms in my quest to find the fastest 40 yard dash ever on video.
Here is Jason Hadeed from Elite Athlete Training Systems and his 4 and a half minute video on how to improve your 40 yard dash. It’s fairly basic, but if you pick up a tip […]

How to Get a Sport Job You Love

There was a good article in the Wall Street Journal on the new National Football League CFO Anthony Notto and how his diverse financial background landed him a high level job at the NFL.
Here are 8 good ideas to keep in mind when trying to land a job in the ever-so-competitive Sports Industry Business, whether […]

How to Start a Blog - Part 2

In my article on How to Start a Blog for under 7 dollars, one thing I forgot to mention was disk storage. The old quota has just increased from 50 MB to 3 GB.
This means you can now upload high-resolution photos, Word and Acrobat PDF documents, music and videos to your WordPress blog without […]

Ready for Your 45?

This post isn’t about your next 400 meter time or moving up to the next Masters age group in a few months.
If you are a hockey fan (aren’t all Canadians hockey fans by birth?) you’ve seen the Nike Commercials for “What’s your 45?” or “Ready for Your 45?”
This concept is based on the average shift […]

Fastest 40 Yard Dash Time?

The shortest distance the IAAF recognizes for indoor world record performances is the 50 meters (approx 54 yards) run in 5.56 seconds set by Canadian sprinter Donovan Bailey in 1996. The irony is he was considered a poor starter!
The current world record for 60 meters is 6.39 seconds set twice by American Maurice Greene […]

Michael Johnson’s Nike Golden Spikes - Step Aside!

Nike designs new running spikes for Asafa Powell
This article from The Jamaica Observer made me realize the power of branding in the marketing wars between Nike and Adidas.
We all remember Michael Johnson for the Golden spikes in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.
The first prototype won’t be revealed until Powell competes in his first race in […]

Innovations in Training and Nutrition - IAAF Nutrition for Athletics

This summary is from the IAAF 2nd International Consensus Conference on “Nutrition for Athletics“ held in Monaco from April 18-20, 2007. Copies of the CD and booklet are available from the IAAF website www.iaaf.org.
Innovations in Training and Nutrition
Presenter: John Hawley (AUS)
The “train low, compete high” paradigm of glycogen levels has been challenged […]

Track Conversions for 50m, 60m, 200m, 300m, 400m

UPDATE: for a 60 meter to 100 meter conversion, a rough guideline would be multiply by 1.53 or 1.54. CLICK here for Extrapolating 60 meters performances to 100 meters

This article is a bit dated, but it outlined the conversion factors for Track and Field during the Canadian CIAU (now called CIS) in the early […]

Navy SEAL Fitness Challenge

Matt Bogdanowicz, current record holder of the 60 pull-ups World record, and former world record holder of the one hour pull-ups, will be attending the Navy SEAL Fitness Challenge in Los Angeles Feb 9-10, 2008.
The Navy SEAL Fitness Challenge is a series of physical fitness events challenging athletes to maximize their performance in individual tests […]

Reggie Bush 40 Yard Dash - Fastest 4.33?

Thanks to Adarian for sending me the link to the video.

Everyone talks about the fastest 40 yard dash time. The fastest 40 yard I recall was the “4.17″ by Deion Sanders. If that is a hand time, that makes 4.2 (rounded up) or 4.44 FAT (by adding 0.24 from hand to FAT)

The direct […]

Win a Herb McKenley DVD Contest

This is his story.
Jamacain Herb McKenley is the only man to have reached the finals of the Olympic 100 meters, 200 meters and 400 meters.
McKenley was also the first man to run the quarter mile under 46 seconds and under 45 seconds.
It took six tries in Olympic Finals to eventually win a Gold medal:

1948 Olympics […]

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