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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 If you liked the article on the free open source program called Kinovea, here are 3 more! Free is good. LongoMatch http://longomatch.org/ LongoMatch is a free video analysis software for sport analysts with unlimited possibilities: Record, Tag, Review, Draw, Edit Videos and much more! LongoMatch has been designed to be very easy to use, [...]
Share My good friend Bret Contreras wrote a fantastic review on the JB Morin’s Mechanical Determinants of 100-m Sprint Running Performance study, also known as the “Christophe Lemaitre study”. You can read Bret’s review here on his Blog. Before I summarize the main points (you can read the original research and Bret’s critique on your [...]
Share One of the Fitness testing ratios people love to throw around in the gym is BMI or Body Mass Index. To calculate your BMI, simply divide your body weight in kilograms with your height in meters squared. I am 1.83m and 85kg, which is 85 / (1.83)2 = 25.4 BMI (6 feet tall is [...]
Share Should Decathletes run 7 miles on Sunday morning just to improve their 1500m time? Can you train both short-to-long and long-to-short at the same time? Can you train for strength AND train for endurance, for example, the STREND event? (i.e. 5 weight events followed by a 5k/3 mile run?) And don’t get me started [...]
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 Friday’s article on Calculating 400 meter Potential stopped at 60 meters. So to continue the downward spiral, I will show some extrapolations from 30 meter fly times or running start. You can use the Freelap to accurately test 30 meter fly times. I wrote a lengthy piece on What is a good time for [...]
Share I did a 10 minute video on Calculating 400 meter Potential, giving conversions for 200m, 100m and 60 meter times. The indoor track competitive season has begun, so if you just ran a 60 meter indoor, read on. Scroll below, or click here for the video on YouTube. Here is the presentation in PowerPoint [...]
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 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 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 In the world of track and field, we live by two measurements: Time & Distance. Race and training distances are fixed, for example, how fast (i.e. time) you can run a give distance of 300m. Yesterday’s article on Fine Tuning your 400 meter Workouts, Part 2 gave several examples of workouts up to 40 [...]
Share Alex Hutchinson’s first book Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?: Fitness Myths, Training Truths, and Other Surprising Discoveries from the Science of Exercise is officially released today. Congrats to Alex, (being a distance runner), who beat me (a sprinter) in the race to publish their first book. Who the heck is Alex Hutchinson? For [...]
Share This post is dedicated to people who “don’t believe in weights” or don’t have access to a weight room due to economic or geographic reasons. People are quick to say Carl Lewis or decathlete Daley Thompson never did weights, but they are quick to add they did “plyometrics”. Allan Wells used the speed bag [...]
Share If you liked the article How much Horsepower does Usain Bolt Generate?, you’ll love this article. How much Horsepower does Usain Bolt Generate? The short answer is 2165 Watts. Divide that by 746 watts per horsepower and you get 2.9 HP, very close to 3 horsepower. For a comparison, assuming 1kg to a height [...]
Share Recently, we had some testing done, and I just wanted to point out the correlation between 100 meters times and Elastic Power and Strength. I think it’s pretty obvious why we do weight training, explosive Olympic lifts, and plyometrics as part of our routine. If you want to ran a faster 40 yard dash [...]
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How High can Jeremy Wariner Box Jump?
Share Several years ago in the days before YouTube, there was a viral video in the running forums of Ato Boldon doing a 60 inch or 1.50m box jump (approximately, video below). The height of the box reaches Ato’s neck or chin. Obviously, people confused this with the vertical jump or vertical leap test, but [...]