Success in Track & Field ... and Life
Share The producers of NCAA On Demand Track and Field have a nice selection from their archives. This includes all the indoors and outdoors NCAA Championships. What’s your Favorite NCAA Track and Field Moment? If you are a Florida State Fan, or Walter Dix, surely it can’t be 2007! Was it Xavier Carter’s 4 Gold [...]
Share Mike Holloway: 25 Tips & Drills for the Sprint Events (DVD) Mike Holloway, the University of Florida Head Track & Field, is recognized as one of the top sprint coaches in the sport. Coach Holloway believes that the make-up of a successful sprinter must include the ingredients of power, flexibility, elasticity and the willingness [...]
Share Maurice Wilson: Sprint Training the Jamaican Way (DVD) Maurice Wilson’s resume is impressive: Jamaican National Track & Field Team Assistant Coach (Sprints) at the 2008 and 2004 Olympic Games and in four World Championships; Head Coach to the 2002 and 2001 Jamaican World Junior Teams; Head Girls Track Coach at Holmwood Technical High School [...]
Share Excelsior Sports has a new DVD series called The New School of Human Performance. Below is an excerpt for a 40 Yard Dash set-up from the NFL Scouting Combine Preparation series "40 Yard Dash" DVD. Presenting the 10 minute YouTube video is Steven Plisk, who earned his BS in Exercise & Sport Science at [...]
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Share Results from the Building a Better Runner DVD Giveaway Like any 24 person semi-final, 8 advance to the Finals, and only 3 medals are awarded. In this case, only 3 people can win one of 3 copies of the DVD Building a Better Runner by RunningDVDs.com. The chances of winning was 1 in 8, [...]
Share The International Olympic Committee (IOC) just launched The Best of Us Challenge, a global competition in which ordinary individuals compete against their peers and Olympic athletes such as Asafa Powell, Lolo Jones, pole vaulters Steve Hooker & Yelena Isinbyeva and multi-eventer Carolina Kluft. Yes, it even includes Michael Phelps! It’s all for a [...]
Share In the YouTube video below, we have Veronica Campbell-Brown training with Tyson Gay. Two world class athletes. Fast forward to the 1:20 mark and you will see VCB doing a variety of 4 drills with a sled or harness. First, who am I to argue if these drills and exercise are crap, considering the [...]
Share I love the world of sports marketing, branding, and world dominance. And yes, I follow their commercials. The Adidas Super 7 series of videos were filmed in March 2009. I purposely waited until the Berlin Marathon to post this. Haile Gebrselassie won the 2009 Berlin Marathon in 2:06:08 setting a new 30 km world [...]
Share And you thought Carmelita Jeter’s 10.67 in Greece last week was simply a fluke… Even Jamaica’s Veronica Campbell-Brown runs a season best 10.89. The wind was a legal +1.2. There is something magic about the stadium in Shanghai, China. Perhaps it is a super hard lightening fast track… If it were not for the [...]
Share Did anyone notice the arm action in Usain Bolt’s 200m on the straightaway? And how it slightly differed compared to the last 40 meters of his 100 meters? This brings up the topic of arm action in sprinting. Famous Canadian Track Coach Geoff Gowan would say, “You run with your arms on your legs”. [...]
Share Complete meet information for the IAAF Grand Prix meet in Rieti, Italy can be found here. Asafa Powell set the 100m WR of 9.74 on September 9, 2007 in Rieti, Italy. Videos of that meet shows a very sparse crown in the hills of Italy. Remember, Asafa ran 9.77 three times. The WR lasted [...]
Share If the number forty-three-point-one-eight (43.18) doesn’t mean anything to you, then you aren’t a real Quarter-miler. One day, that number (or lower) will be the 100 meter freestyle swim record. It was ten years ago today, Michael Johnson set the Men’s 400-meter world record in Seville. Michael Johnson should have demolished the 400 World [...]
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 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 [...]
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