Success in Track & Field ... and Life
Share I had the pleasure of speaking with LaShawn Merrit, the 400 meter 2008 Olympic and 2009 Word Championship Gold medalist. We talked about training, and especially Dwayne Miller’s famous “Drill Outs” workout. Miller presented LaShawn’s annual plan at the 2008 SuperClinic. I primarily asked about his 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 season, and that Beijing [...]
Share This is part 3 of the article How to Run Faster… at any Age as we start going into Technical Competency and Sprinting Efficiency. Part 2 talked about the importance of coordination. If I had to name a couple of jargons related to sprinting and how to sprint faster, it would be “dorsiflexion”, “triple [...]
Share Asafa Powell’s 5.64 victory yesterday in the indoor 50 meters was one-tenth of a second slower than his best 50m split of 5.54 seconds outdoors. This made me ponder… when will the indoor 50 and 60 meter world record be broken? And why are the indoor times slower than the outdoor splits? Even with [...]
Share Are you an AC Milan fan? Do you have aspiration of being a Soccer coach? How about learning “a Day in the Life” of a Professional European Soccer player? My friend is hosting a full time "Coaching and training week". It’s a complete training program with the AC Milan “Serie A” team, with the [...]
Share This is part 2 of How to Run Faster… at any Age. UKA’s David Lease, famous for Jason Gardiner’s coach, mentioned in his podcast the most important element in sprinting is coordination (thanks to Mark Collins who sent me the interview. NOTE: UKA audio and videos are restricted to UK residents) To sum it [...]
Share Dwayne Miller: World Class 400M Dash (DVD) If you attend the USATF Olympic Trials, they hold a fantastic SuperClinic series on the “rest day break” every year since 1992. The 2012 SuperClinic will be on Tuesday 26 June at the Boulevard Grill on the south end of Franklin, 5 blocks from Hayward Field. The [...]
Share Every week, I get several emails from readers on how to run faster. Some are from parents of pre-teen children in Track, Soccer and Football. Other readers include Masters athletes. I’ll share some of the highlights from my various phone calls here in this article. And, as per usual, I’ll keep it simple and [...]
Share One of the earliest papers I read on 400 meter training was written by William Black from the 1988 Winter edition of TRACK COACH. You can download the PDF here (168Kb). The paper talks about the physiological factors of performance in the 400 meters, and one specific reference was from 1980. It’s a good [...]
Share Every 12 years, the Dragon has to be the most popular Chinese animal made famous by the 1985 Mickey Rourke movie (not to be confused with the 1972 Bruce Lee movie, Way of the Dragon, and the famous Rome Coliseum fight with Chuck Norris). So January 23, 2012 marks the Chinese New Year, the [...]
Share At SpeedEndurance, I like to cover strength endurance just for fun. One of the popular articles on this Blog is my former training partner Matt Bogdanowicz and his 60 second pull up record. (It has since been broken, but hey, records are made to be broken) This challenge was a training prep for his [...]
Share The Alpe Cermis is the toughest race in the Cross Country Skiing World Cup. It’s the final stage of the Tour de Ski, a 9km course just outside of Trento (Trentino) Italy, with a total climb of 495 meters! Just search Google for photos and videos, and all the skiers literally collapse in exhaustion [...]
Share I’ve been sitting on this article for months with hesitation. Here is the preamble on why I never posted it (until today). The problem with doing splits is you need extremely good video, preferably non-compressed HD quality, as well as the video of the starting gun showing the smoke coming out to start the [...]
Share In Italy and other parts of the world, Carnevale (also known as Mardi Gras) is celebrated 40 days before Easter, which is February 22, 2012 this year. One of the popular treats is the bombe fritte or ciambelle fritte also known as the donut or doughnut. As a former member of Canada’s National Police [...]
Share I have to admit, I am still a kid, and I still enjoy connecting the dots. I wrote about the proper use of the arm and hand action in at least 5 articles (see below for the links). And I wrote about the importance of fascia in past articles More on Stretching – Active [...]
Share I created an 18 minute video on 800 meter training, with an slight emphasis for 400 meters moving up in distance. Scroll below for the video, or click here for the video on YouTube. Here is the presentation in PowerPoint with the transcript of the 12 slides on AuthorStream. You can also download the [...]
Share Racing season is here! Last month, I wrote about How to Run the Indoor 300 or 400 meters. BBC Channel 4 had a good video clip with UK’s Iwan Thomas and Michael Johnson on How to Race the outdoor 400 meters shown during the 2011 World Championships in Daegu. Ironically, back in 1998, Iwan [...]
Share Here is a quick 5 step guide to goal setting for your athletes. I am using the acronyms S-M-A-R-T: Specific. Drill down to the specific by asking the W-5: who, what, where, when, & why. (Sidenote: How many Canadians remember the TV show “W5”?) i.e. Who do you need to make your goals happen? [...]
Share Once again, I want to thank @TrackNation for pointing out some useful references. Below is a chart I extracted from the USATF 2008 Men’s 400m Olympic Trials Finals. There are several components you can learn from these results, both in race strategy as well as workout suggestions and guidleines. Source: USATF Splits are just… [...]
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Share Last fall, I started a series on erogenic aids after being a guest on ESPN The Ticket radio show. The big question is how do you define “cheating” vs. “performance enhancement”? I define “performance enhancement” if it’s BOTH safe and legal. If it’s illegal, then it’s called “cheating”. If it’s not safe, well, what [...]