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Share Let me go on record with this fact: Once injury or osteoarthritis has occurred on a soft tissue such as your shoulders, knees, elbows or Achilles, there is NO magic pill to fix the athletic injury. Lower back pain also fall in this same category. That pain and damage you feel is from weeks [...]
Share Dwayne Miller: World Class 400M Dash (DVD) From the mailbag: Jimson, You’ve covered a lot of great 400m coaches on your website like Clyde Hart, Bud Winter and Stan Dowell. How about LaShawn Merritt’s coach? What kind of training philosophy does he have? Long to Short or Short to Long? First of all, Dwayne [...]
Share This article is guest blogged by Taylor Ryan from The Art Of Weight Lifting. Ladies, Increase Your Speed And Endurance While Sculpting Great Toned Muscles! It doesn’t matter if your goal is to increase your marathon time or to just be able to walk up the stairs without getting winded… in the long run [...]
Share The following is a press release from Nike.com. It discusses the evolution from cotton T-shirts, polypropylene and Lycra, Dri-FIT and today’s Nike Pro. It’s a long but interesting read. Nike Training: The Beauty of Obsession There is a code among Nike Athletes: Devotion is the heart of success, and preparation is the soul of [...]
Share During my weight training days at McGill, I remember a lot of lifters were using wrist straps and weight belts, including myself. The weight belt was good for the vanity – it tightened your waist and tucked in your beer belly, plus it inflated your chest, hence the inverted triangle appearance. The 46” chest [...]
Share The official splits from the IAAF can be found here (PDF). What can we learn from these splits? Standard Coaching Theory If your opening 200m is within 1 second of your best 200m, and the differential between the 1st half and 2nd half is about 2 seconds, then simple logic determines your 400m time [...]
Share There are a lot of coaching experts out there who deal with sports specify. And they all charge big bucks. I simply look at any given sport and break it down to the fundamentals of training principles and sports physiology. For example, I’d rather focus on the short speed of a Soccer player than [...]
Share 19.19. Sounds like a year from the WWI history books. What is the take home message, when you compare this with his 19.30 from Beijing 2008? (1) The faster your 100m time (speed), the faster your 200m can potentially be, with a faster opening 100m (speed reserve) taking the curve in consideration. (2) Everyone [...]
Share On Monday, I posted Usain Bolt’s 20 meter splits courtesy of the IAAF. Another biomechanical report has come out with 10 meter splits. You can download the official document here (PDF) But First, the Disclaimer When you want to lose or gain weight, you should always weigh yourself with the same scale, the same [...]
Share On August 31, 2008, they had the largest Human Race with almost 800,000 participants Worldwide over a 10 km distance. Even Carl Lewis got involved by being the unofficial starter in Rome, Italy. I don’t know why he wasn’t in Los Angeles where he belongs. My guess is the Jerry Lewis theory… they are [...]
Share Here are some thoughts and opinions from the 2009 World Championships in Berlin “half-time report”. As usual, I’ll try to focus on coaching and training concepts. Starting Blocks – Back to the Low Blocks Track and Field at the elite level has gone back and forth from low blocks to high blocks during the [...]
Share This is Part 1 of a 2 part series. Click here for Part 2 with 10 meter splits . Honestly, I didn’t expect Usain Bolt to run sub 9.60. I felt a WR was imminent after watching his SF, and I knew his chest thumping slowdown in Beijing showed me he could run low [...]
Share Usain Bolt Berlin World Championships Video How fast will Usain Bolt run? That seems to be the question these days, barring unfortunate weather conditions. His 10.03 jogging the last 60 meters in the Quarter-Finals made me believe he is ready for another world record. He appeared to relax (while the rest of the field [...]
Share Usain Bolt is the clear favourite to win the World Championships in Berlin. But lost in the controversy of who ran the fastest split ever recorded was Tyson Gay’s 2008 Olympic Trials 9.68 performance. Mind you, it was under a +4.1 m/s tailwind advantage. A 9.68 (+4.1) 100 meters translates to a 9.85 adjusted [...]
Share Matt Bogdanowicz’s is a sub-Masters middle distance runner who set WR for 1 minute pull-ups (46), 1 hour pull-ups (522), 30 minute pull-ups (433 set in 2006) but missed the 30 minute WR on Oct 2007 (completed 417 when the current record at the time was 442). In comparison, Alicia Weber is a former [...]
Share When Speedendurance covered Matt Bogdanowicz’s World Record attempts, a lot of you were wondering who set the equivalent WR for a women? As you know, my good friend Matt is also a sub-Masters middle distance runner who set WR for 1 minute pull-ups (46), 1 hour pull-ups (522), 30 minute pull-ups (433 set in [...]
Share What is the STREND Fitness Challenge? Basically, it is when running a 5K alone just isn’t enough. This is a 6 event decathlon that combines strength and endurance. It’s the total repetitions of 5 exercises divided by run time in minutes (the 6th and final event), plus there is a strict recovery between events [...]
Share NIKE, Inc. introduced the new Nike+ SportBand, giving runners real-time performance feedback on their distance, pace, time and calories burned with just a glance at their wrist. Nike also redefined the online running experience by merging the successful site nikeplus.com and its close to 2 million members together with nikerunning.com. Nike+ SportBand The Nike+ [...]
Share There was some Interesting commentary from Superman (a.k.a. Michael Johnson) on Telegraph.co.uk last week. Let’s take a closer look at his suggestions: My three-point plan would be to shorten the competitions and limit the events to only those that most people, in particular young people, are interested in. Focus on the pure competition between [...]
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