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Share 2011 will be remembered as the Year if the Methylhexaneamine positive tests coming directly from products containing Methylhexaneamine or resulting from supplement contamination. I heeded a warning last year in my 4 part series on Sports Drinks. Let’s recap the year in review… 2010 Commonwealth Games women’s 100m winner Damola Osayemi of Nigeria… India [...]
Share When: December 17, 2011, from 1:00pm to 5:00pm Where: Merritt College, 12500 Campus Drive, Oakland, CA Cost: $50 Instructors: Roosevelt Kent Micheal Reid Adarian Barr If you want to go to a track and field clinic that has active hands-on participation, and learn the real ways to make you run faster, this is the [...]
Share Christophe Lemaitre was in Amsterdam this week and fellow Dutch Blogger Losse Veter has the chance to interview him. The first question was his decision (and his coach!) to skip the World Indoor Championships. Later, he talks about the past season, his goals, next year’s Olympics in London, the mental part of the sport, [...]
Share In true Lyle McDonald fashion, this is a continuation of a series of articles on specific sprint training for the 100 to 400 meters. Since November is around the corner, I want to discuss special endurance “magic workouts” and those workouts depend on whether you have an indoor track or not. The 4 x [...]
Share WHEN: Sunday, 01 January 2012 at 15:00 – Saturday, 07 January 2012 at 20:00 WHERE: USOC Olympic Training Center – Chula Vista, California Cost: Tuition – $600 Room & Board (Shared Room) – $600 Room & Board (Single Room) – $920 Offering: USATF/IAAF Academy diploma and certification upon completion of all components of the [...]
Share The following tips are training strategies related to speed and power development for the long jump and triple jump from Boo Schexnayder presentation notes on this subject. Re-printed with permission from the author. >> Click here for Coach Schexnayder’s Complete Horizontal Jumps Training Program. A horizontal jumper’s speed and power capabilities are the greatest [...]
Share This is part 6 of a multi part series. Part 1 was the ESPN radio interview. Part 2 looked at the history of Ethical Cheating or Ergogenic Aids and some of the disgusting food choices. Part 3 discussed coffee and caffeine. Part 4 discussed Nootropics. Part 5 discussed baking soda and beta alanine. Let’s [...]
Share I started my Track career at nine years old as a Triple Jumper, so the horizontal jumps has a special meaning to me. Because speed training is vital for jumpers, I also ran the 4x200m relay, then eventually became a specialist in the 400 meters. The Long and Triple Jump doesn’t have the glory [...]
Share This article is guest blogged by FitnessHealthZone.com Kids do it all the time, but equally athletes, boxers, and wrestlers do it. Jumping rope or skipping as it is also known, is not just kid’s play and athletes, fitness experts and regular adults have found that a jump rope workout can be a very effective [...]
Share Gary Reed announced today the public launch of the Reed Athletics Fund, the first non-profit of its kind, founded and funded by a Canadian Olympian. Reed, 6-time 800 meter Canadian champion and record holder, 2 time Olympian, and 2007 Silver Medalist in the World Championships, retired from athletics in 2010 and founded the Reed [...]
Share This is part 5 of a multi part series. Part 1 was the ESPN radio interview. Part 2 looked at the history of Ethical Cheating or Ergogenic Aids and some of the disgusting food choices. Part 3 discussed coffee and caffeine. Part 4 discussed Nootropics. Let’s go over some of the common products you [...]
Share Coaches and Athletes, If you remember the iPhone sprintTimer – Photo Finish & Race Timing last May, you’ll be glad to hear some more iPhone, iPad and iPod apps coming your way. (We’ve seen an iPhone ECG App and iPhone Starter Pistol too) fitnessMeter fitnessMeter is a tool for measuring different fitness tests like [...]
Share If you like the video of Christophe Lemaitre’s How to Run the 100 meters last July, you’ll like this one with Usain Bolt. And it’s subtitled in French, too. In this video on YouTube, we go through the entire process from start to finish. Even Usain Bolt admits his reaction time is critical. His [...]
Share London 2012 and Atos, the Worldwide IT Partner for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, today officially unveiled the Technology Operations Centre – the mission control for all 94 Olympic competition and non-competition venues. The launch follows the first phase of the London Prepares Series, during which the London 2012 technology team together with Atos, [...]
Share WHEN: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 WHERE: St. Louis, Missouri What is it: The Podium Education Project, PEP, is an annual High Performance Coaches Symposium which brings elite coaches and sport scientists together to review and present some of the most cutting edge methodology and coaching practices in the World. It is designed to provide [...]
Share Two years ago, Richie Mercado of the North America, Central America and Caribbean Track & Field Coaches Association (or NCCACTFCA) wrote a review on Loren Seagrave’s Neuro-Biomechanics of Maximum Velocity Sprinting. Part 2 of his review is here. Ralph Mouchbahani and Kevin O’Donnell were the co-authors. I had a few comments by email asking [...]
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Share Men have an unfair advantage over women because of their strength and size. That’s why the events are separated by gender, and Para-Olympians have their own games. Because of this, we have the women’s throwing events using lighter implements. We have the women’s hurdles at lower heights than men and with shorter spacing in [...]