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Usain Bolt – My Story 9.58 Book Review

Share Usain Bolt‘s official biography goes on sale tomorrow. For those lucky enough to live in the UK or Europe, Usain Bolt’s new book My Story: 9.58: Being the World’s Fastest Man went on sale Sept 2. UK and Europe readers, click here for the book. For those living in the rest of the world, [...]

What is the 100 meter World Record for Running Backwards?

Share What would you say if I had a male athlete running 13.6 for 100 meters, 31.56 for 200 meters, and 69.56 for 400 meters? Or 4 men running the 4×100 meter relay in 62.55? It would either be a beginner Youth athlete, or a senior Masters athlete, right? Wrong. Those are world records for [...]

David Rudisha – Importance of Teamwork and Support

Share What can I say about the success of David Rudisha that has not already been said? Great coaching Great planning Great teammates as training partners A great friend who is good enough to rabbit Great teammates for support and friendship Breaking the WR not once, but twice in a 6 day span shows it [...]

120 Ways to Build a Better Person

Share This is isn’t an article on personal growth or self help (there are thousands of websites and Wayne Dyer YouTube videos out there), but every once in a while we need to review how we can be a better person.  Or Coach.  Or Spouse.  Or Parent. I wrote a similar article based on my [...]

Tom Tellez, Loren Seagrave to present at 2010 Canadian National Sprints Conference

Share The 2010 Canadian National Sprints Conference, November 12-14, 2010 "The Development of Speed" This conference is an outstanding panel of experts that will discuss contemporary sprint training theory and practice over the course of 3 days.  If you are in the Greater Toronto Area, then this is one of the “must attend” conferences of [...]

Speed Predictor for 100 meter times and Rugby Players

Share Last month’s article Maximum Speed Predictor for 100 meter times and Soccer Players raised several questions. One of them was how fast can a RUGBY player run the 100 meters? Well, take all those fancy Excel spreadsheets and throw them away. Get six or eight of the fastest rugby players in the world and [...]

How to Run the 100 meters – Stay in your Lane!

Share The recent performance of Christophe Lemaitre at the 2010 Decanation in his “hometown” of Annecy reminded me the 2 most important elements for racing the 100 meters: Do Not False Start Stay in Your Lane The Decanation is a unique team event where you have the 10 individual deca events.  Sorry, no hammer throw [...]

Penetrex – Do Transdermal Anti-Inflammatory Creams Really Work?

Share POP QUIZ: How much water is the human body made up of? The human body is anywhere from 55% to 78% water depending on body size.  Let’s just say 70% for argument sake.  Or two-thirds. Whatever it is, the human skin has evolved to prevent desiccation to our cells. There’s a reason why we [...]

Why the 100m Is the Most Difficult Race

Share This article is guest blogged by Ian Warner, co-founder of CoverGround.ca The Real Reasons Why the 100m Is the Most Difficult Race The 100 meters is the most difficult race in track and field. Do you think this can be so? What about the race one lap around that track? Or to make matters [...]

How to Race the 400 meters – Run Your Own Race

Share The elite men’s 400 meters over the past 6 years saw the rise and fall (and rise again) of Jeremy Wariner, the rise and fall of LaShawn Merritt, and the emergence of new up and comers like Jermaine Gonzales.  There were some great European faces like David Gillick and the Belgium Borlee twins, but [...]

The Worst Fast Food Shake in America

Share If you enjoyed my post on EAT THIS, NOT THAT by author David Zinczenko, and if you enjoyed Top 10 Worst Fast Food Places List, then you’ll certainly enjoy this article from the same author. Take a look below!  At 2000 calories, Cold Stone PB&C shake is a full day supply of 3 or [...]

7 Simple Exercises to Improve Your Squat

Share For those who are obsessed with Bench Press, Squat, and Deadlift numbers, then this video is up your alley. 650lbs Deadlifter Eric Cressey is giving away a free video that shows you exactly how to improve your Squat technique as well as depth. Click here to watch this free video now In short, this [...]

GPP Training: 101 Different Push-up and Sit-up Exercises

Share It’s mid-September and some of you are still on a training break, others are back into heavy GPP training. What the heck is GPP? In short, it’s just plain well rounded fitness.  It’s a good time for athletes to be in balance with strength and coordination for all the body parts. GPP, or General [...]

Photographing Track and Field Athletics

Share Photographing Track and Field athletes or any action sport is tricky.  You can take hundreds or thousands of photos and only come up with a handful of decent shots.  IF you are lucky.  Life Magazine’s George Silk is a name that comes to my mind first back in the days of film and print. [...]

Shortest and Fastest World Records: 50 meter and 50 Yards

Share With all the talk about Football’s 40 yard dash, Basketball’s 75 feet 3/4 court sprint, and Baseball’s 60 yard dash, let’s take a look at some obscure world record or world best SHORT racing distances. Swimming has their version of the 50 meter “splash and dash”. Here are the world records or world best [...]

Protein in Whole Milk vs Fat Free Milk

Share I was asked by an athlete on a long bus ride home: What has more protein? Whole Milk or Fat Free Milk (aka Skim milk in certain parts of the country)? A quick Google search will tell you they are the same at 8 grams of protein per cup or 250ml of milk regardless [...]

2011 Daegu World Championships Schedule: CRAP

Share Call me old school, but the 2011 Daegu World Championship’s new improved schedule doesn’t appeal to me. I’m referring to the swapping of the relays. The men’s 4x400m finals are on Friday, the women’s 4x400m are on Saturday, and both 4x100m finals are on Sunday, the last day. It’s obvious the IAAF is catering [...]

Ice Baths, Contrast Showers, and Epsom Salt Baths

Share Ice baths are a favorite for elite athletes these days as it helps heal microtears in the muscles, as well as flush out by-products out of your blood vessels by vasoconstriction. The old days of sitting in a hot tub after a strenuous sport are only for recreational sports or winter sports for social [...]

Cancer Cells Love Fructose over Glucose, US study finds

Share Let’s review some simple well known facts: Glucose is a primary source of energy for the body and brain.  It is a simple monosaccharide and also known as dextrose referring to D-glucose. Fructose is the primary sugar in fruit and is a simple monosaccharide. Sucrose, also known as “table sugar” or “white sugar”, is [...]

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