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Share I had the pleasure of speaking with LaShawn Merrit, the 400 meter 2008 Olympic and 2009 Word Championship Gold medalist. We talked about training, and especially Dwayne Miller’s famous “Drill Outs” workout. Miller presented LaShawn’s annual plan at the 2008 SuperClinic. I primarily asked about his 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 season, and that Beijing [...]
Share If you think Kirani James Gold medal was a fluke at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, think again. The big meets after Worlds are usually Zurich and Rieti for the 800 meters. That is, if you aren’t emotionally drained from all the rounds and pressures of a championship meet. At Zurich, James proves [...]
Share Almost 20 years ago, both Danny Everett and Roberto Hernandez were credited with a world record time of 31.48 for the 300 meters. It was set on September 3, 1990 at Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, just 1 hour south by car from Seville. Danny was declared the winner breaking the previous mark of [...]
Share Press Release: 400-meter gold medalist LaShawn Merritt has accepted a provisional suspension as a result of positive drug tests caused by his use of an over-the-counter male enhancement product that he used intermittently following the completion of the 2009 outdoor track & field season. This over-the-counter male enhancement product contained DHEA and pregnenolone, which [...]
Share NOTE: Some of my older guest posts on other Websites are now being shut down due to the economic climate. Thus I will present them here. How much do the tight indoor curves affect your performance? Even with the banked curves to counteract the centripetal forces, it does affect your stride length and stride [...]
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 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 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 LaShawn Merrit and Jeremy Wariner in the 400m – The Battle of Nike and Adidas Next to the Usain Bolt – Tyson Gay anticipated match up, the LaShawn Merritt Jeremy Wariner head-to-head match up comes next. These two have been avoiding each other all year, and the meeting in Herculis Greece never materialized where [...]
Share I am currently in Rome where the 2009 FINA World Championships are held. There’s quite a buzz in the city with the electric atmosphere of a Championship meet. Plus, it’s over 35C or over 90F during the day with humidity. And those temperatures are in the shade! Between 1968 and 2004, only 7 men [...]
Share LaShawn Merritt and Jeremy Wariner continue to avoid each other as the match up to Berlin comes to a climax. This video is a textbook 400 meter sprinting at its finest. The HQ quality shows good form and rhythm from most of the athletes, including the winner LaShawn Merritt. Ever notice the 400 meter [...]
Share Gone are the days where the 400 meters was an event for 800 meter runners who moved down in distance. Today, I am convinced the short sprinters have an advantage over the “strength” sprinters like Lee Evans and Butch Reynolds. I am referring to the successes of Quincy Watts and Michael Johnson. In MJ’s [...]
Share The IAAF article can be found here. Click here to download the PDF file. How were these splits recorded? Transponder antennas were laid under the track at the 0m, 100m, 200m and 300m. Athletes wore chips on the inside of their front bib numbers, so when they crossed the transponder threshold, a time was [...]
Share Why is Nike winning the Shoe War? Let’s recap 2008. Over $18 Billion dollars in sales in the fiscal 2008. Just as a perspective, Apple topped $10 billion in quarterly sales this year. And according to reports, Nike accounted for almost 50% of ALL running shoe sales in the USA. That’s a lot of [...]
Share Click here for What is Speed Reserve? Part 1 – 400 meter Sprinter types The news of Usain Bolt going after the 400 WR in 2010 inspired me to write this article. What is Speed Reserve? Speed Reserve, or Anaerobic Speed Reserve (ASR), is simply the difference between your maximum speed and your maximum [...]
Share The 100 meter freestyle in swimming resembles the 400 sprint in running. Their Elite times are in the mid 40′s second range and both events have similar energy systems: Alactic anerobic and Lactic anerobic. Between 1968 and 2004, only 7 men has run under the magic 44 seconds barrier for the 400 meters (and [...]
Share I was going to post the last ten 400 meters dash Olympic Champions, but decided to post the last 16 Olympic medalists since the post WWII “modern era”. To read more about these athletes, click on the link under their name. Some names require no introductions. This list is a classic, but it leaves [...]
Share When David Neville dove for the finish line at the 400 meters finals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he broke up the pre-race favorite prediction of LaShawn Merritt, Jeremy Wariner and Christopher Brown of Bahamas. With an American sweep, no one won the 400 meter Olympic prediction contest, as the most common entries were [...]
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