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Share Talk about slicing the bologna thin! Christophe Lemaitre produced yet another a new French National record and personal best for the 100m after clocking 9.92secs to win France’s National Championships. However, the wind was a suspicious +2.0 m/s. I know many years back meet directors would have someone stand in front of the wind [...]
Share This Part 3 of a multi-part series. Part 1 talked about the injury cycle and the 4 stages of diagnosing your injury. Part 2 explained why regular strength training does not work, and why you need to do heavy load eccentric contractions. Part 2 also showed the Heel Drop exercise. So, here is Part [...]
Share This Part 2 of a multi-part series. Part 1 talked about the injury cycle and the 4 stages of diagnosing your injury. Based on demand from Part 1, I’m going to jump right ahead and get to the physio and rehab exercises for strengthening your Achilles tendon. There are only 3 reasons why you [...]
Share Below is a special section from the October 2008 edition of The Spartan Daily. This wonderful 10 page colour booklet (PDF file, 10.7 Mb) is a nice anthology of stories all related to Bud Winter and Speed City. It contains 9 short stories, and if you are a Bud Winter, Tommie Smith, John Carlos, [...]
Share This is part 1 of a multi part series on Achilles tendon injuries. Lyle McDonald would understand the multi-part format, heh heh. I will look into all the aspects of the injury cycle, the how’s and why’s, pros and cons of each phase. Those who know me know I’ve been suffering from Achilles tendonitis [...]
Share World Championships are 5 weeks away! Scroll below for the video and results. Facebook and RSS readers, click here. If you want to see how Usain Bolt wins the race, fast forward to 4:54 of the video and see the slo-mo side-angle where Bolt is behind, but makes up inches on every stride. Talk [...]
Share Oscar Pistorius should be allowed to run. It’s an interesting human rights story, and thus you can’t deny his rights if he makes the IAAF “A” Qualifying standard. Rules are rules. But let it be known, he does has some disadvantages, and a lot of advantages. There comes an optimal point where one will [...]
Share Remember the story last month on Roger Black and how he chose athletics over academics? By failing one course changed the path to his destiny? Black trained at Surrey university’s campus gym before competing in the Olympics, and thus it is great to hear he has been given an honorary degree from the University [...]
Share Last year, I wrote about Tips on Preventing Leg Cramps while Sleeping. I also covered this topic briefly in Sports and Energy Drinks: The Complete Guide (start with Part 4 and go backwards from the links). But what about leg cramps while racing? First, what is a leg cramp? It’s a muscle cramp with [...]
Share If you are into Powerlifting, then the name Andy Bolton comes to mind. Even if you are interested in improving your lifts in the Bench Press, Squat, and Deadlift, then you’ll love these books. Of course, improving these numbers will carry over to the Olympic lifts such as Cleans (power cleans, hang cleans, etc.) [...]
Share Many thanks to Ken Stone who covered these 400 meter races on his MastersTrack Blog. It always inspires me to see a 35 year old running times capable of winning some College meets, or a 40 year old capable of winning local OPEN meets. Or my fellow countryman Michael Sherar running 51 point at [...]
Share Part 1 started with Plyometrics, Ground Contact Time, and Sprinting which showed the faster the movement, the shorter the ground contact time. Part 2 of this series was covered in How to Weight Train without Weights and it focused on speed strength. So this is Part 3. I want to review strength and resistance [...]
Share Yesterday’s post on What is a Swedish Relay? deserves a few videos. The USA team, comprising of Youth athletes (i.e. U18 or under 18), came very close in breaking the WR with their 1:49.47 performance. The first exchange is critical as it is occurring at near top speed (100 to 200). As expected, Japan, [...]
Share If you watched the recent IAAF Youth Championships in Lille, France, you know the answer to this question. The “Swedish Relay” is 1000 meters in length (two and a half laps), comprising 4 legs in order of 100m, 200m, 300m, & 400m. It is also called the medley relay and mostly used in youth [...]
Share Last week, Jim Hiserman wrote Summer Sprint Training: Important Variables to Consider. This article is guest posted by Latif Thomas, CSCS, USATF Level II, Creator of Complete Speed Training for Sprinters. If you’re a sprinter or sprints coach who starts getting ready for the indoor season during the fall (or for spring during the [...]
Share Yesterday’s video on How to Race the 200 meters was focused on execution on running the 200 meters. Curve running is another important aspect as half your races over 200 meters on the oval track are on the curve. Should you treat curves the same as straightaways? I’ll break this article down into several [...]
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Share If you’ve followed this Blog for a while, you’ll notice a subliminal message behind the articles. Since I turned 48 years old today, I’m probably old enough to be your father for half my readers (based on the Internet stats and demographics) Behind all the training and nutrition tips, and all the post race [...]