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Clyde Hart at the European Athletics Coaching Conference

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November 6, 2008 by Jimson Lee 3 Comments

Every time you hear Clyde Hart speak at a conference, he provides incredible insight as well as humour to coaching 400 meters sprinters. Sometimes you leave the room with more questions than answers. This is good, as coaching should be a discovery on what works (and what doesn’t work) for your athletes.

If you live in the USA or Canada, be sure to attend the 2008 USATF National Podium Education Project to hear him speak.

From www.european-athletics.org:

A series of four keynote presentations throughout the weekend was launched by Clyde Hart, coach to 400m legend Michael Johnson. In this he explained how his coaching philosophy had been shaped by his experiences visiting Europe – “the coach always striving to be better through using what works; taking on board the ideas of others and shaping them to develop these on the track – which is on our lab, while using the athlete as the number one learning tool’.”

Clyde commented, “You don’t get to be a good coach without being a good thief” and in answer to his own question: Are we coaching any smarter than we were 25 years ago? Well,’ he continued, “we only have a bigger vocabulary!”

Clyde finished with a challenge to all delegates “There’s no such thing as peaking – if you can’t see the top (of the performance), how do you know where the peak is?

Interesting comments, especially the last part about “peaking”! The quote is more evangelistic rather than specific, and is taken out slightly of context.

If he was being specific, then maybe that explains why we often see Michael Johnson or Jeremy Wariner running 44 low in April or May.

But to train “long to short” as Clyde Hart does, you really need to “peak” for your event with the proper speed workouts in place.

In addition, you need to be able to handle the pressure of multiple rounds, and you need a few key meets to be exposed in “pressure cooker” situations. No training can replace that feeling.

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Category icon400 meters,  Coaching,  Track & Field Tag iconClyde Hart,  Jeremy Wariner,  Michael Johnson,  speed

About Jimson Lee

I am a Masters Athlete and Coach currently based in London UK. My other projects include the Bud Winter Foundation, writer for the IAAF New Studies in Athletics Journal (NSA) and a member of the Track & Field Writers of America.

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  1. Jimson Lee says

    November 7, 2008 at 9:51 am

    @Adarian – good point, and let’s not forget how many times Asafa ran those 9.7 in less than ideal sprinting conditions… cold!

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  2. adarian says

    November 7, 2008 at 9:13 am

    Peaking is a bad word. I think what happens is that when we train an athlete to peak versus to perform coaches end up limiting performance. I know A lot of coaches that set goals for athletes, and then coaches them to reached that goal, one problem they may be much better than the goal.

    I hope that Usain Bolt has opened coaches eyes to train athletes to perform at a high level versus peaking
    Even Asafa Powell, and the Russian female pole vaulter.

    Usain ran a world record in May and then another one in August.
    Asafa may not do well in games but he had a good year. 9.72 the second fastest 100m ever. He also had a few 9.8 along the way.
    And the russian female pole vaulter jumpers a world record everytime she vaults.

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  3. suraju says

    August 8, 2009 at 8:55 am

    Hello,

    Im intrested in partispate in Clyde Hart at the European Athletics Coaching Conference do get back with me as soon as possible you recived this mail so that i can be able to come over there because am a student of lagos state university..in nigeria..pls mail me back and let me no what to do so that i can be able to partipate in the up coming Clyde Hart at the European Athletics Coaching Conference pls mail me back as soon as you recived this mail.Thanks

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