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2 Secrets to Sprinting: Forward Lean and Longer Ground Contact

Share There’s a reason why the October Issue of Men’s Health is pictured on the left.  (Thanks to Divinio A. for pointing it out) Here is a snippet of the article on page 36 referring to Leaning Power: "Dig, dig, dig!" may not be the best advice to shout at a sprinter. A recent German [...]

How Do You Determine the Worlds Fastest Man?

Share Back to School Special, Part 1. Warning: this subject matter may bring back horrible memories of high school physics! How do you determine the Worlds Fastest Man? The Winner of the 100m Olympic Gold Medal (The Olympic shortest sprint distance)? The fastest 10m segment? (with or without a running start?) A radar gun (like [...]

Michael Johnson’s Speedwork Training

Share Michael Johnson’s training for speed endurance was covered in detail very early in the blog, so I thought it would be interesting to review what he did for speed work or acceleration development.  After all, we are talking about at man with a 10.09 PB for 100 meters and who ran 19.32 for 200 [...]

Duane Carlisle Total Football Training DVD

Share Are you ready for some football? Football is around the corner. Actually, it’s already here when you count the off season. Track coaches who coach multi-sport athletes such a American football will love this complete program as it resembles Track and Field due to the speed, power and strength requirements. Duane Carlisle, the Head [...]

Clarification on Fastest Recorded 10 meter Split

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 [...]

Maurice Wilson: Sprinting the Jamaican Way: Drills for Speed and Technique (DVD)

Share Maurice Wilson: Sprinting the Jamaican Way: Drills for Speed and Technique (DVD) This is part 2 of a 3 part series in reviewing Maurice Wilson’s 3 DVD set on Jamaican sprinting.  Part 1 can be found here. Maurice Wilson’s resume is impressive: Jamaican National Track & Field Team Assistant Coach (Sprints) at the 2008 [...]

Happy Birthday! Win a Copy of Complete Speed Training for Sprinters

Share Speedendurance.com went live on Monday, May 21, 2007. That was Victoria Day in Canada (or La fĂŞte de Dollard-des-Ormeaux in Quebec).  So this weekend marks the three year anniversary. This site has helped hundreds of athletes and coaches achieve personal bests, seasons bests, and Masters “age category” bests over the past three years. And [...]

Coaching Soccer Drills and Tips – The Testing Phase

Share Soccer is a speed, agility and power game.  Why on earth they still send kids out on 40 minute runs to work on their aerobic conditioning is beyond me. If you want to work on their aerobic capacity, try 20 x 50m tempo strides @75% speed with pushups and sit-ups (or any core exercise) [...]

400 Meter Training: Blending Short-to-Long and Long-to-Short Methods – Part 2

Share This article is guest blogged by Jim Hiserman, author of the books Program Design Method for Sprints & Hurdle Training and Strength and Power for Maximum Speed This is Part 2.   For Part 1, click here: 400 Meter Training- Blending Short-to-Long and Long-to-Short Methods – Part I In working with some high school coaches [...]

400 Meter Training: Blending Short-to-Long and Long-to-Short Methods – Part I

Share This article is guest blogged by Jim Hiserman, author of the books Program Design Method for Sprints & Hurdle Training and Strength and Power for Maximum Speed Development of 400 meter sprinters is a complex task that requires a thorough understanding of Sprint Mechanics, Maximum Speed Development, Strength & Power Development/ Maintenance, development of [...]

Speed, Agility and Quickness: Youth Soccer Drills Examples

Share This article is guest blogged by Patrick Beith of Athletes Acceleration. The ability to stop, start, cut and sprint are extremely crucial skills needed to be successful in soccer. Here are 6 of our top soccer agility drills for players that can be used and are great in a team setting. 1. Ground Marker [...]

Steven Bradbury – Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics

Share With the Vancouver 2010 Olympics approaching, this has to be one of my best memories of any winter Olympics. Steven Bradbury of Australia is most well-known for his unexpected gold medal at the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympic Games in the men’s short track 1000 metres event from three unlikely events occurring. The [...]

Glen Mills on Balancing Speed Endurance and pure Speed Work

Share One of the most important parts of designing an annual plan is whether you have 2 days a week or 3 days a week of “hard days”. Elite and Youth athletes can easily go 3X per week, but for Masters athletes, I like 2X.  Masters athletes can work on other factors such as weight [...]

Speed is the Result of Net Forces Acting on the Ground

Share I really like this quote from Charlie Francis when it comes to the debate over stride rate vs stride frequency.  The answer, according to Ralph Mann (and others) at the USATF NPEP, is ground contact.  Specifically, the reduction of ground contact time. Charlie Francis quotes from his latest manual: Too many coaches are coaching [...]

The Attrition Rate of a 400 meter Sprinter

Share From the mailbag: I ran 50+ in College and I just turned 40.  I have not let myself go like most 40 year olds, and I’ve stayed fit from a variety of sports throughout the last 2 decades.  What can I expect to run at M40 and M45? This article will discuss the attrition [...]

Justin Gatlin 2006 NIKE Commercial

Share Remember when Justin Gatlin was a household name? Why not?  He won the 100 meter gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games when Asafa Powell was considered the favourite. This NIKE commercial was shot in the spring of 2006 prior to the announcement of his eight-year ban from track and field.  That didn’t stop [...]

High Jump On-line Calculator

Share A big thank you to Ken Stone of MastersTrack.com for pointing this out to me.  I love it when Science & Technology meets Track & Field. The High Jump Resource Center belongs to Todd Acheson, a two-time NCAA DIV II All-American in the High Jump. I discussed Baseball’s circular path when rounding the bases, [...]

CherryPharm Natural Light

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Share Everyone is going light these days. Take a look around you, and you’ll understand why.  When you’re watching your calories, you want every calorie to count. For example, Gatorade G2 is 25 calories per 8 ounce serving (~250 ml) which is about half the calories compared to the regular Gatorade. With the popularity of [...]

40 Yard Dash Set up: NFL Scouting Combine Preparation

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 [...]

3 Rounds for Track Events – What does it mean?

Share Interesting article from the IAAF Council Meeting notes, Monaco – 20 November, 2009.  It states under the TRACK EVENTS: No more than three rounds for any event A preliminary qualification round of men’s and women’s 100m to include only unqualified athletes Relays spread over at least three days Semi-Finals and Finals in same session [...]

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