Carl Lewis: First 3 Steps out of the Blocks

Carl Lewis: First 3 Steps out of the Blocks

October 4, 2010 By Jimson Lee 1 Comment

Share “The Start” has always been a fan favorite for discussion. Everyone worries about the start to shave a few tenths of a second, when they could work on speed endurance and shave a few seconds, especially in a 200m. Then again, a good start sets you up for all phases of the race. So [...]

Filed Under: Coaching, Featured Story, Track & Field Tagged With: Carl Lewis, Tom Tellez

Clarification on Fastest Recorded 10 meter Split

July 26, 2010 By Jimson Lee 6 Comments

Share Time for some clarifications on last week’s article On Top End Speed and Speed Endurance. In the article Usain Bolt 100m 10 meter Splits and Speed Endurance, I wrote at the time 0.83 was the fastest record split before Usain Bolt ran 0.82 (from 50-80m) at the 2008 Beijing OG. He subsequently ran 0.81 [...]

Filed Under: Featured Story, Track & Field, Videos Tagged With: Asafa Powell, Ben Johnson, Calvin Smith, Carl Lewis, Chidi Imoh, Christophe Lemaitre, Desai Williams, Lindford Christie, Marian Woronin, Maurice Greene, speed, speed endurance, top speed, Usain Bolt

Wyomia Tyus: The Famous Pre-Race Dance to Out-Psych Everyone

June 16, 2010 By Jimson Lee Leave a Comment

Share This is PART 1: The pre-race routine before getting into your starting blocks. PART 2: The pre-race routine getting into your starting blocks. Usain Bolt is famous for being super relaxed and dancing and playing to the crowd BEFORE he races. In fact, we saw Asafa Powell change his demeanor at the 2009 World [...]

Filed Under: Olympic History, Track & Field Tagged With: Barbara Ferrell, Carl Lewis, Chi Cheng, Irena Szewinska, Mexico 1968, pre-race routine, Raylene Boyle, Starting Blocks, Tokyo 1964, Usain Bolt, Wyomia Tyus

Pietro Mennea’s Detailed Training Workouts for 200 meters

May 10, 2010 By Jimson Lee 14 Comments

Share Pietro Mennea’s 19.72 200 meter World Record was set at the 1979 World University Games in Mexico City. The WR would later become the holy grail of the 200 meters until Michael Johnson broke it (twice) in 1996. Today, that 19.72 sounds like molasses in January compared to 19.19. Pietro Mennea also won the [...]

Filed Under: Book Reviews, Coaching, Featured Story, Olympic History, Track & Field, Training Tagged With: 1980 Moscow, 200 meters, Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, Pietro Mennea, Plyometrics, Weight Training

Coaching Long Jump Technique – Hang or Hitch-kick?

December 16, 2008 By Jimson Lee 4 Comments

Share When you think of high jump, no one uses the straddle roll anymore. The last time we saw that technique being used was Vladimir Yashchenko (2.33m & 2.34m World records from 1977-78) or Valeriy Brumel (2.23-2.28m World records from 1961-63) In the long jump, most Elite men (if not all) use the hitch kick. [...]