Success in Track & Field ... and Life
Share This article may be trivia to Americans, but beneficial to the rest of the World who are not familiar with the Imperial system. You’ve seen the classic workout of 2 x 352 yards in older sprint programs like Bud Winter and other great coaches. Why the unusual distance? To use a very bad analogy, [...]
Share INDIANAPOLIS – Some of the world’s most respected coaches and scientists are among the scheduled presenters for USATF’s Podium Education Project, Dec. 10-13 and Dec. 17-19 in Orlando, Fla. The featured speaker for both sessions will be German biomechanist Dr. Klaus Bartonietz. The author of countless articles on biomechanics and technique for throwing events, [...]
Share I mentioned the previous USATF SuperClinic in the article on Dwayne Miller, LaShawn Merrit’s coach. Among the wealth of information provided at this clinic was a lecture and handout from Tom Tellez. Tom Tellez requires no introduction… you can read the article Sprinting: A Biomechanical Approach Part 1 (Part 2 is here) for a [...]
Share Bill Bowerman is more famous for co-founding NIKE and coaching long distance runners, but he did coach sprinters and field events. I covered Harry Jerome and Otis Davis in previous articles. From his book Bill Bowerman’s High-Performance Training for Track and Field (Third Edition) he compares the training patterns of Stan Wright, Jim Bush, [...]
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 Ever notice airline magazines and USA Today have those short articles with interesting stats and numbers? I thought to give it a try with the 400 meters. Here goes… The 400 meters 5800 – Number of subscribers to SpeedEndurance.com 3635 – Age of the current world record (in days) 2010 - ? Year of [...]
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 Preamble: I posted my weight training routine from 1985-1992, followed by a lengthy discussion on how to calculate your 1 rep max (1RM) and weight percentages. Here’s another weight training program for discussion. This is a 15 – 30 week weight training program. Each phase is 5 weeks long. After 15 weeks, you adjust [...]
Share If you enjoyed my casual and candid live coaching videos of John Smith with Jon Drummond demonstrating a drills session or Clyde Hart Drill’s session, you might find this series of videos informative from YouTube. In these videos, we have Coach Stephen Francis explaining how to prepare for sprinting at a session. This was [...]
Share The 2008 USATF National Podium Education Project takes place December 9-13 at the Tuscany Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, NV. The main focus of this year’s summit will be “How to Maintain Your Peak from the Trials to the Games“. It follows the same format as last year with the conference broken down into [...]
Share Kenya, like Canada, has a hard time trying to develop a pool of 100m, 200m & 400m sprinters with Olympic and IAAF “A” Standards. I can’t remember the last time Canada sent a 4x400m relay team to a World Championships or Olympics. (HINT: 1992 Olympics) The Americans are overflowing in abundance in this department. [...]
Share There was a good article in the Wall Street Journal on the new National Football League CFO Anthony Notto and how his diverse financial background landed him a high level job at the NFL. Here are 8 good ideas to keep in mind when trying to land a job in the ever-so-competitive Sports Industry [...]
Share Let’s start the New Year with one resolution: STOP MAKING EXCUSES! Here is a quote from HSI John Smith‘s Inside the Training & Inside the Competition videos. “A true champion, when they lose, they don’t get defeated. They get inspired by their loss. It makes them come back to practce. They can’t wait to [...]
Share I’ll be writing a lot of John Wooden articles in the near future. I’ve covered John Smith, Clyde Hart and Tom Tellez quite in detail, and it’s time to cross sports, keeping the Coaching and success theme intact. I’ll also do a few articles on another great basketball coach, Pat Riley. On that note, [...]
Share USATF presents the 2007 National Podium Education Project. This year’s project includes most track and field event areas. The NPEP will be held Dec. 11-15, 2007 at The Tuscany Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, and is broken into two sessions. John Smith, Clyde Hart, and several other world class coaches of the top [...]
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When Athletes Become Coaches: Maurice Green
Share Can former elite athletes become world class coaches? Just because you once ran fast (once upon a time) does not qualify or give you the permission to become a coach. You have to pay your dues, obtain certifications, and go to conferences. You have to learn, learn, learn. You can never stop learning. There [...]