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Share The 100 meters can be broken down into 3 parts: reaction time, acceleration to top speed, speed endurance, If you take Usain Bolt‘s 9.69 time from Beijing 2008 as a percentage of time, you get: Reaction time = 0.165 (1.7%), 0-60m without reaction time = 6.155 (63.5%), 60-100m including celebration = 3.37 (34.8%), The [...]
Share The 100 meter freestyle in swimming resembles the 400 sprint in running. Their Elite times are in the mid 40′s second range and both events have similar energy systems: Alactic anerobic and Lactic anerobic. Between 1968 and 2004, only 7 men has run under the magic 44 seconds barrier for the 400 meters (and [...]
Share This article was guest blogged by Philippe Neron of Incrediblesteps Records Today is the one year anniversary of the passing of Jamaica’s Herb McKenley. Sometimes, you get better with age. Michael Johnson repeated his Gold medal victory in the 400m in the 2000 Sydney Olympics at the age of 33. Mike Larrabee was 30 [...]
Share Somehow, when the NY Times speaks, everyone listens. This stretching article was referenced in many Blogs with mixed reactions. Earlier this month, they had an article on Relaxation – The Key to Victory and Success. While this was not a landmark or pillar article, it did mention Clyde Hart which caught my eye. It [...]
Share 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 [...]
Share Last month, I wrote about the Plan-Do-Check-Act components of the Deming Cycle. Another theoretical concept that applies to training is the 80-20 rule of Pareto’s Principle. This is not to be confused with the Law of Diminishing Returns. The 80/20 Rule is a general rule of thumb, or as I call it, a “guesstimate”. [...]
Share Certificate in Sports Hypnosis Presented by Gary Baker Director, The Centre for Sports Hypnosis London, United Kingdom Starts: Friday January 30, 2009, 09:00AM Ends: Saturday January 31, 2009, 05:00PM Event Type: Training / Seminar Location: The Centre for Sports Hypnosis, Greater London, GB Price: £245 – £295 Website: http://www.sportshypnosis.org.uk Related Keywords: Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy, Hypnotist, [...]
Share Iwan Thomas is the current UK record holder at 400 meters with a time of 44.36 seconds. His best year was definitely 1998 where he won the gold at all 3 major “championship meets” that year, notably the IAAF World Cup, European Championships and Commonwealth Games. He also won a silver medal at the [...]
Share I was going to post the last ten 400 meters dash Olympic Champions, but decided to post the last 16 Olympic medalists since the post WWII “modern era”. To read more about these athletes, click on the link under their name. Some names require no introductions. This list is a classic, but it leaves [...]
Share If you enjoyed my casual and candid live coaching videos of John Smith with Jon Drummond demonstrating a drills session or Clyde Hart Drill’s session, you might find this series of videos informative from YouTube. In these videos, we have Coach Stephen Francis explaining how to prepare for sprinting at a session. This was [...]
Share First of all, this is British comedian Lee Evans, not the Lee Evans the 1968 Olympic 400m and 4x400m Gold medalist. Prior to Sydney, the crew made several short video clips as Lee Evans attempts to train with various world class athletes. In this video, what is funny is Ato’s trainer is simply called [...]
Share The latest issue of IAAF New Studies in Athletics special edition focused on the 400 meters: The 400 metres by Jurgen Schiffer The aerobic mechanism in the 400 metres – by Enrico Arcelli, Marina Mambretti, Giuseppe Cimadoro, Giampiero Alberti New Studies in Athletics Interview with Clyde Hart The IAAF New Studies in Athletics is [...]
Share In the past 18 months this Blog has been around, we’ve had a few great ones pass away in such a short period of time: Al Oerter Herb McKenley Peter Norman Robert Taylor And now Larry James. Larry James is best known for his silver medal at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics in the [...]
Share Every time you hear Clyde Hart speak at a conference, he provides incredible insight as well as humour to coaching 400 meters sprinters. Sometimes you leave the room with more questions than answers. This is good, as coaching should be a discovery on what works (and what doesn’t work) for your athletes. If you [...]
Share Tabbloid is a web service from Hewlett-Packard that delivers your daily Blog (or Blogs) as a print-ready Adobe PDF attachment. This FREE service is handy when you are in a foreign country and they block access to your favorite Blog. This is similar to Feedburner’s Subscribe to Daily Email service (see sign up box [...]
Share Frans Bosch is a professor of biomechanics and motor learning at Fontys University for Applied Science in The Netherlands. He is also the co-author of “Running: Biomechanics and Exercise Physiology in Practice” with Ronald Klomp. His book “Running” is widely regarded as one of the top sprinting resources for coaches worldwide. An anatomical illustrator, [...]
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