Speedlinking: The Complete Guide to 400 Meter Training

UPDATE: download Clyde Hart’s 60 page Training Manual from the 2007 USATF NPEP Conference.

Speedlinking is a term to define a collection (or handful) of good posts on a particular topic, very similar to a Blog Carnival.

Here is a collection of workouts and race strategies from around the world:

From Speedendurance.com’s archives:

• Clyde Hart Training Seminar Notes
• Differences between 440 yards and 400 meters
• Video of the 1988 Olympic Finals (Steve Lewis, Butch Reynolds,& Danny Everett)
• from Supertraining
• from Lee Evans
• Michael Johnson’s race strategy
• Bud Winter on Tommie Smith
• Bud Winter on Lee Evans

From the Internet:

• Clyde Hart Classic blueprints to his 400m training
• Clyde Hart on the 400: Train slower to race faster from American Track and Field by Andy Friedlander, a nice 3 page scanned article.
• Clyde Hart: coach to Michael Johnson and Jeremy Wariner from www.sports-fitness.com
• Strategies and Tactics on Running the 400 Meters By Rob Lasorsa, M-F Athletic Co.
• Track Coach #102 (Winter, 1988) By William Black
• The 400-meter dash training and racing, March 1996 by Michael Stevenson
• by Brian MacKenzie, UK Level 4 Performance Coach
• by Australian Coach Steve Bennett
• from Australian Coach Steve Bennett, moderator for the YahooGroup 400-800-1500: