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Harry Marra Interview [PODCAST]

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November 23, 2012 by Jimson Lee 4 Comments

Last Updated on February 19, 2014 by Jimson Lee

If you enjoyed the Aston Eaton video, and the Clyde Hart podcast from SportsCoachRadio.com, then you’ll enjoy this one.

In this podcast (original link here), we have Glenn Whitney interviewing Harry Marra, coach of both American Ashton Eaton, and Canadian heptahlete Brianna Theissen.   He was named USA Track & Field’s 2012 Nike Coach of the Year.

Harry Marra also coached Olympic decathletes Dan O’Brien (Gold 1996), Dave Johnson (Bronze 1992) and Paul Terek (21st in 2004)

Ashton Eaton Harry Marra Hug in 2012 Olympics Trials

Photo Credits: Christian Petersen/Getty Images North America

Harry Marra Interview from SportsCoachRadio.com

Presenter: Glenn Whitney
Broadcast Date: October 2012
Duration: 1:00:27
File Size: 27.7 Mb

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Category iconCoaching,  Interviews,  Podcasts,  Track & Field,  Training Tag iconAston Eaton,  Harry Marra,  SportsCoachRadio

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. Eric Broadbent says

    November 24, 2012 at 7:49 am

    No max efforts in practice! I find that hard to believe. He did say occasionally if they are doing flys but really?

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    • Harry Marra says

      November 25, 2012 at 10:12 am

      Eric,
      Here’s the idea. Example…no full LJ in practice…90 % rhythm on approaches…shorts ( jumps of 3 L’s into HJ pit/sand pit to work on T/O and landing principles: never any full throws in Jav…more rhythm throws in Discus, shot put may be exception, as the heaviness of the implement mandates such; all runs for 400 M and up at controlled…well within yourself, etc etc…these examples are a SAFE and FUNCTIONAL way to train for all the decathlon events. Selected meets, scheduled as a lead up to a multi, is where we will go full effort to time up skills…but of course, correct adjustments in training loads must be made in order to accomodate this. Good luck. Harry

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      • Eric Broadbent says

        November 30, 2012 at 5:45 am

        That makes sense. My coach actually follows very similar ideas when it comes to a lot of what your saying. We do all short approach LJ and HJ work but separately we will do full approach LJ efforts (without actually landing or anything but maybe last 3 or 4 with takeoff). % wise I would say its about 95% effort though. We don’t do full approach Jav throws either but we if we are doing 400 specific work, we will eventually get to max efforts(or close to it) i.e. 2×350 or something like that.When you guys do 400m work do you stay at or below that 85% range or would you say it might creep up a little higher than that? Also if you were to do block work or true accel work, would these be more relaxed close to max efforts or would they still be around 85%? Thanks for answering my questions and congratulations on everything thus far!

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        • harry marra says

          December 14, 2012 at 11:08 am

          Relative to 400 M work, here is how I achieve 100 & max effort without actually giving 100%….controlled recovery time between bouts of running…example: 4 x 300 m for training today =’s ( for As h) maybe at 37 sec pace BUT only 2:30-3:00 min for recovery…this way acute fatigue is there probably after 3 efforts and the fourth effort, because of high lactic lods, is a max effort, but controlled by the fatigue …we never take long recovery on 400 train and we keep volume of work to minimum

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