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Interview with Lance Brauman, Coach of Tyson Gay

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July 16, 2012 by Jimson Lee 6 Comments

This is Part 9 of a multi-part series from my recent trip to Orlando & Clermont, Florida.

Part 1 was with Dennis Mitchell.  Part 2 was with Brooks Johnson.  Parts 3 & 5 was Hurdle Touchdown Times with Kellie Wells Training and Part 4 included Håkan Andersson.  Part 6 was my interview. Part 7 was with Stephen Maguire, coach of visually impaired sprinter Jason Smyth who is just 0.04 seconds off to make the able-bodied Olympics.  Part 8 was a run-in with USADA and out of competition random drug testing.

Lance Brauman is the president at PURE Athletics.  His impressive roster includes Tyson Gay, Trinidad’s Keston Bledman and Kelly-Ann Baptiste and many more.

To learn more about Lance Brauman’s training methods, you can checkout his 2 DVDs titled 16 Speed and Power Drills for Sprints and 30 Speed and Power Drills for the Hurdles.

I had the pleasure of shadowing him and Stephen Maguire for a day last April.  To go through a workout and pick apart some of the details in sprinting biomechanics was an eye opener because I don’t have a 9.69 sprinter on my roster.  Heck, I’ll be happy with anyone running 10.18.

At the end of our session, I grabbed my video camera and asked a few questions just before they headed up to the weight room.  Unfortunately it was windy, and I didn’t bring the cover for my microphone.

  1. What are the differences in training a College Athlete vs. a “sponsored” Elite athlete?   Work volume comes to mind.  I read somewhere Tyson Gay’s training starts at 9:30 am and finishes around 3pm?
  2. What are the challenges when you have a healthy 9.9 and 19.8 sprinter show up in October for another year? How do you get them to 9.7 and 19.5? Do you keep on doing the same things? Tweak a little here and there?
  3. Outside of track workouts, how much emphasis do you place on strength and explosive training?  In the weight room, do you balance strength exercises (i.e. bench and squats) and explosive work (Olympic lifts)?
  4. Is there a particular biomechanical preference you look in sprinting, or do you let the athlete’s natural build and technique set the standard, and go from there?  I guess I am referring to Asafa Powell’s 2nd step toe drag, or Justin Gatlin straight arm movements.
  5. What the heck are wicket drills?  And when is the best time to use them in athlete development?  How does it help the sprinter?  (see Increasing Stride Length: Lance Brauman’s Wicket Drills for more details)
See also  PODCAST – Interview with Lance Brauman

Related Posts on Lance Brauman

  • Increasing Stride Length: Lance Brauman’s Wicket Drills
  • Lance Brauman’s Fly-In Drills, In and Out Drills
  • PODCAST – Interview with Lance Brauman… where he gives a sample training week for his athletes.
  • Lance Brauman: Speed and Power Drills for Sprints and Hurdles (DVD)

Category iconCoaching,  Interviews,  Track & Field,  Training Tag iconLance Brauman

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. OKtav says

    July 22, 2012 at 3:54 am

    the interview with Interview with Lance Brauman – Is “mute”!?…Can’t hear sound

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  2. OKtav says

    July 23, 2012 at 2:15 am

    Jimson… The sound do not work!!1

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    • Jimson Lee says

      July 23, 2012 at 2:25 am

      The sound works for me, and I’ve had over 9,000 views on this already. Nobody has complained. Did you click on the volume control?

      Reply
  3. OKtav says

    July 23, 2012 at 2:40 am

    I have no sound problem on web or stand alone videos – youtube, vimeo, etc… May be 4 of 9000 visits are mine, that doesn’t mean that it works… Actually I have a sound – is something like snake tongue…Snake whispering… Well doesn’t matter. I thought it would be helpful… May be I miss an audio codec… As far as I know I have all of them installed on my PC

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  4. OKtav says

    July 23, 2012 at 2:41 am

    Sorry I meant the sound doeS not work or do not workS…Please Jim edit comments button :)

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    • Jimson Lee says

      July 23, 2012 at 2:49 am

      I sent you the links to download the MP4 directly. if it doesn’t work, well there’s not much I can do, I cannot attend to the 6700 daily readers to this site and all the comments and individual emails.

      Reply

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