Success in Track & Field ... and Life
Share Mike Rodgers should be getting all the attention with a dual sub-6.50 60 meter dash indoors, as he ran 6.49 and 6.48 in the thin air of Albuquerque (5300ft or 1600m elevation). But the past weekend had Christophe Lemaitre steal the show with a 6.58 60m performance at the 2011 French Indoor Nationals. You [...]
Share Kirani James of Grenada, currently a sophomore at the University of Alabama, won the SEC Championships Men’s 400 meters in a time of 44.80, just missing the 44.57 World Record set by Kerron Clement in 2005. Just a couple of things to point out before we get to the video. First, note the block [...]
Share This article is guest blogged by Jonas Forsberg of YouthSoccerSpeed.com Do you as a coach feel the importance of acceleration in the game of soccer, but due to information-overload out there, you don’t know who to listen to or what methods to follow? I don’t blame you. According to research, most of the youth [...]
Share Recently, we had some testing done, and I just wanted to point out the correlation between 100 meters times and Elastic Power and Strength. I think it’s pretty obvious why we do weight training, explosive Olympic lifts, and plyometrics as part of our routine. If you want to ran a faster 40 yard dash [...]
Share I was lucky to be in Sherbrooke, Quebec (Canada) in 1987 and witnessed Chip Jenkins setting an American record of 1:15.80 for 600 meters missing the World Record of 1:15.77. Chip is my friend on Facebook, so I’ll ask him to comment on this after I publish this article. Today, the WR is lowered [...]
Share This article is guest blogged by Jonas Forsberg of YouthSoccerSpeed.com The reason I got into primarily speed training for soccer players was due to my own experience as a young soccer player. At the age of 15 I was extremely fast and explosive, and if I haven’t injured my ACL it could most likely [...]
Share adidas brings personal coaching to Android at the Mobile World Congress The adidas miCoach app for Android is being presented at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week in conjunction with Google. The new miCoach app for Android provides a whole new group of smart phone users with the chance to use this [...]
Share There are a lot of comments (both Facebook and regular comments) in the article Baseball’s 60 Yard Dash – What’s a Good Time? Back in Vancouver, Derek Hansen and I had the opportunity in our Track Club to train Nathan Taylor (bronze medalist 4x100m Commonwealth Games), Steve Larsen (a bobsledder and Olympian at the [...]
Share In traditional Lyle McDonald fashion, this article will be broken up into a multi-part series. Racing the 400m isn’t just showing up at the start line, nor is it 1 hour before the race. It’s starts the night before. Actually, to be really picky, it starts in September or October. That is where the [...]
Share This article is guest blogged by Jonas Forsberg of YouthSoccerSpeed.com Last year, I was sitting in front of the TV watching the Netherlands against Denmark in the World Cup. What comes to mind is the way the players move on the soccer field. Both of these two teams have a lot in common, and [...]
Share If you are stuck indoors due to inclement weather, don’t despair. Sure, nothing beats doing short 30m with spikes on a track on a warm day, or flying through a 2 x 300m on an outdoor track with nothing but shorts and spikes (and maybe athletic supporters for men!). But for the unfortunate ones [...]
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Share One of the most common emails I receive is how to train when injured. First, there’s the weight room, and when you skip the running and sprinting workouts, your weights will explode. (See First Law of Thermodynamics: energy cannot be created nor destroyed) You only have so much energy in a given day. If [...]
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One Less Race for Usain Bolt and Elite 100 Meters Sprinters
Share I have to agree with the IAAF decision to cut back the 100 meter rounds for the 2012 London Summer Olympics. The Daily Mail published the article Spectators will see less of Usain Bolt with controversial bye introduced for 100m in London. The 4x100m and 4x400m Relays are already tough to qualify with only [...]