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Share This is Part 4 of a multi-part series. Part 1 discussed Testosterone Creams & Gels: Victor Conte Revisited. Part 2 discussed How To Increase Natural Testosterone, Naturally. Part 3 covered Sleep Deprivation and Testosterone Levels. In all the years I’ve coached, it’s amazing to see how many people are willing to put stuff INTO [...]
Share DISCLAIMER: Artificial testosterone, whether creams, orals or injections, is a prohibited substance for tested athletes, including Masters athletes. This article is not to encourage you to take testosterone, but to educate you. It’s no secret men over 50 are getting testosterone injections to treat hypogonadism. The primary reasons are for increased sex drive, osteoporosis [...]
Share Let’s face it, 55 meters is an odd distance. So when high school sprinter/football player Marvin Bracy ran 6.08 for 55 meters, a lot of people just took it as a new High School National Record. And they should! How fast is that? “Rocket” Raghib Ismail (another sprinter/football) of Notre Dame University ran 6.07 [...]
Share When I wrote The Rocket Sprint Start, the most popular question I received had to be the “Jamaican” toe-scrape technique on the second step. I’ll explain with some “proof” from the 2 videos below. Thanks to Stu McMillan and Dan Pfaff’s YouTube channel, we have a huge collection of high def videos to analyze. [...]
Share LaShawn Merrit will be running the 500 meters at the new and improved Millrose Games. The meet will be held at the NYC Armory, which offers a fast 200m banked track, opposed to the Madison Square Garden 11 laps to the mile (145 meters) wooden boards! Can he break the world record? What is [...]
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 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 When I wrote the Jamaican Sprint Secrets ebook, which you can get for free when you sign up for the free monthly newsletter, the section on Stephen Francis was based on older interviews during the peak years of Asafa Powell. The 2011 World Championships in Daegu was a disappointment for Stephen Francis’ team MVP [...]
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 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 This is part 2 of a multi-part series. Part 1, which discussed hip mechanics, can be found here. This part will discuss: which foot is the power leg resistance running with weighted sleds resistance running with isorobic ropes resistance running with uphill running resistance running with parachutes Without getting into too much detail on [...]
Share I’ll summarize it in one sentence: Host Nation India wins Gold Medal 4x400m women’s relay at the 2010 Commonwealth Games That headline is enough to spark a few readers. That’s why the 4×400 meter relay should be kept as the final event of the program (aside from the marathon, which is not technically a [...]
Share The elite men’s 400 meters over the past 6 years saw the rise and fall (and rise again) of Jeremy Wariner, the rise and fall of LaShawn Merritt, and the emergence of new up and comers like Jermaine Gonzales. There were some great European faces like David Gillick and the Belgium Borlee twins, but [...]
Share It’s mid-September and some of you are still on a training break, others are back into heavy GPP training. What the heck is GPP? In short, it’s just plain well rounded fitness. It’s a good time for athletes to be in balance with strength and coordination for all the body parts. GPP, or General [...]
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Why are Good Sprinters Pigeon Toed or have Straight Feet?
Share For a non-pigeon toed sprinter, the best example of the worse case scenario would have to go to Ato Bolden (see the head-on slow-motion video below with Donovan Bailey and Bruny Surin from the 1995 World Championships archives) One of the reasons why Ato runs that way is from his early days playing soccer [...]