Success in Track & Field ... and Life
Share Who is the world’s greatest athlete in terms of Strength, Power and Speed? Who is the greatest all-around athlete? Decathletes? In this month’s issue of The Strength & Speed Newsletter, my good friend Clay Parker wrote an article on the greatest all-around athletes based on athletic feats and performances that are scored in Dale [...]
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 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 lose so many of my good athletes to soccer. Conversely, I get a lot of “washed up” soccer players at age 17 who didn’t make the cut professionally (or amateur leagues). It’s a cruel world out there, what can I say? If you are interested in becoming a professional soccer player in Europe [...]
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 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 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 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 3 years ago, I wrote about comparing 100 meter Freestyle in swimming and 400 meter Sprinting and running. So when I read and research swimming articles, it’s not because I am in love with Dara Torres. It’s because any swimming sprint (50m and 100m) resembles the 200 and 400m in Athletics respectively. Track and [...]
Share This is part 2 of the series on Speed Training Tips. Part 1 discussed choosing to train your strength or weakness. Truth be told, you need to work on acceleration development at some point, and not 10×200 hard until butt-lock. Here are some examples of the drills we do. Feel free to copy them [...]
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 This is Part 5 in the series called 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 of this series covered How to Weight Train without Weights and it focused on speed strength. [...]
Share Part 1 started with Plyometrics, Ground Contact Time, and Sprinting which showed the faster the movement, the shorter the ground contact time. Part 2 of this series was covered in How to Weight Train without Weights and it focused on speed strength. So this is Part 3. I want to review strength and resistance [...]
Share What does Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay have to do with Muhammad Ali? Simple. With Tyson not eligible for Team USA for the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, you have to ask when will Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay meet again? The 2012 London Olympics? Can Zurich (i.e. the biggest meet after the World [...]
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 (A lot of SpeedEndurance.com readers are Arsenal FC fans, so I am posting this on their behalf. Enjoy!) The Arsenal home shirt for the 2011-12 season features a new bespoke crest that marks the club’s 125th anniversary year – and looks forward to the club’s next chapter as the most environmentally-friendly kit Nike has [...]
Share This article is guest blogged by Jacob Hiller of www.jumpmanual.com Do you need to be strong or are plyometrics enough? How strong is strong enough? But… – How strong is strong enough? – Can you be buff and jump higher? Getting strong is not only a pre requisite to patting your ego, it’s also [...]
Share The Nike Mercurial Vapor SuperFly III is the seventh generation of Mercurial which continues a legacy of providing players with cutting edge innovation that delivers incredibly lightweight, fast, and responsive performance on the pitch. Informed by insight from some of the world’s fastest players like Cristiano Ronaldo and Alexandre Pato, the Nike design team [...]
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Share There was a guy named Scott Powell, who used to sing in a Rock and Roll group from 1969 until he left for medical school in 1980 at Columbia University. Today, Dr. Scott Powell is a member of the medical staff of U.S. National Soccer teams, and is the team physician for the Federation [...]