Success in Track & Field ... and Life
Share When was the last time you crammed for an exam? Why didn’t you keep up all year long, studied a bit every day, so you would just have to review your notes as a refresher the night before? Would you run a marathon the night before a marathon? This sounds ludicrous, but I see [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Share Speedendurance.com went live on Monday, May 21, 2007. That was Victoria Day in Canada (or La fête 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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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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 [...]