Success in Track & Field ... and Life
Share In 1964, Bud Winter published the book The Rocket Sprint Start based on Germany’s Armin Hary 100 meter victory at the 1960 Olympic Games. If you’ve seen the vintage footage, you will agree on two facts: (1) he was one of the fastest starters of all time, and (2) his pickup in the first [...]
Share So you want to be a professional Soccer player? or Football player? Do you have dreams of playing soccer in Europe? Then save this date: Feb 5-10, 2012 Here’s your chance to qualify for a professional soccer (football) tryouts in Europe. If you are between the ages of 16-18, or even as young as [...]
Share Here are my top 7 tips for your Track spikes: Don’t leave them in your spike bag Dip the spike pins in 10W30 oil before inserting Carry extra pairs with different spike lengths and types Carry a pair of pliers 200m specialists pin placements Differences in spike plates Choosing pins and needles Take them [...]
Share Since today is Black Friday, the day following American Thanksgiving, it officially kicks off the Christmas shopping season. If you are looking for ideas on books to buy, you can go to the Book Review category section. And of course, there is my Rocket Sprint Start book to be released on December 1. Here [...]
Share Here are two great videos for coaching sprinting as well as understanding sprinting. John Pryor is a Biomechanist and Strength & Conditioning coach in Australia. Primarily his focus is in International Rugby, but his passion is speed (like most of us). How to get faster is the Holy Grail for all strength, power and [...]
Share When someone takes a good thing too far, it gives it a bad rap. I am talking about Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS), also known as Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES), or simply “electromyostimulation”. This should not be confused with TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulator) which is common in the use of electric current for pain [...]
Share This article discusses wind assistance for the short sprints and horizontal jumps. This article will not discuss excessive wind assistance for the hurdles, as that’s another story with stride and step patterns. You’ve all seen the dreaded +2.1 on the race results which nullifies any attempts for record purposes (or achieving standards). I know [...]
Share I never get tired listening to Tom Tellez, Clyde Hart, John Smith, Dan Pfaff or Loren Seagrave. Sure, they may be old school USATF material, but I always, and I mean always, come out with several new ideas and a few “a-ha” moments. I’ve watched hundreds of hours of film, both elite sprinters as [...]
Share Sten and I would like to thank all the beta testers who took the time to evaluate the latest fitness tester for iOS devices. You may recall we had a call-out for the iPhone, iPad and iPod FitnessMeter: Beta Testers Wanted. The company, Appmaker, also makes the iPhone sprintTimer – Photo Finish & Race [...]
Share Many thanks to the NubiaGroup for assembling this awesome collection of 112 photographs from the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. All sports, including the Opening Ceremonies, are included. My hats go out the athletes who competed. I’m tired of hearing excuses like “fear of getting sick” to “contaminated food poisoning from the [...]
Share I did a 10 minute video on How to Break 50 seconds for the 400 meters. Scroll below to get to the video on YouTube. Here is the presentation in PowerPoint with the transcript of the 9 slides on AuthorStream. You can also download the PPT or Video file (MP4 version) from that link [...]
Share Coaching the hurdles is easy, right? Track and Field, or Athletics to the rest of the world, is a relatively easy sport to coach and to participate. It’s meant to showcase the individual athleticism in Track or Field events. The rules and specifications are calculated for a reason, and that includes hurdle heights and [...]
Share A young sprinter asked me how to get faster at a recent function. Well, I replied if he had 3 hours to spare. He looked confused, as this article is the result of our conversation. It’s a long read (almost 2000 words), so I suggest you grab a drink and have a seat. This [...]
Share I love determining 10 meter splits to calculate maximum velocity and the amount of degradation over the final parts of the race. Can the adidas miCoach Speed_Cell record 10 meter Splits? With the popularity of Garmin watches for distance runners, it’s no wonder we are now seeing this technology for speed events, and not [...]
Share WHEN: December 12-15, 2011 WHERE: JW Marriott Hill Country, located just outside of San Antonio, Texas COSTS: from $225.00 MAIN WEB SITE: http://www.ustfccca.org/ustfccca-convention SCHEDULE: http://www.ustfccca.org/ustfccca-convention/convention-schedule The USTFCCCA Track and Field Convention is highly recommended because it has a huge selection of lectures in their Symposium as well as getting certified by the Track and [...]
Share I did a 10 minute video on How to Write a Sprint Program in 5 easy steps. Normally this is an hour long lecture, but this is a quick summary to get you started. Scroll below to get to the video on YouTube. Here is the presentation in PowerPoint with the transcript of the [...]
Share Track Alerts had a great interview with Glen Mills, in case you missed it. There’s aren’t any secrets here, but the best part of the Q&A was “the last word” on Mills on the state of the sport. Canada and the USA aren’t the only ones having problems keeping and retaining young elite athletes [...]
Share This is Part 6 in the series titled Plyometrics, Ground Contact Time, and Sprinting. Part 1 Plyometrics, Ground Contact Time, and Sprinting was simply to demonstrate the faster the movement, the shorter the ground contact time. Part 2 covered How to Weight Train without Weights and it focused on speed strength. Part 3 was [...]
Share I wrote about the possibility of the IAAF changing their Track and Field Rules for 2012 because of the Usain Bolt DQ in Daegu. Nope. Zilch. Nada. It’s not going to happen. Here is the current Track and Field Rules for 2012, in English. Click here for the 284 pages, 3MB PDF file. Everyone [...]
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Are We Getting Faster? World Championship Performance Trends
Share Daegu 2011 is now a distant memory, but there was one interesting souvenir, and that is the IAAF Stats Handbook for Daegu 2011. It’s a huge download, 186 pages and 8Mb in size, and you can download it from the Daegu 2011 IAAF Website. What was interesting was the section on performance trends. As [...]