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Starting Blocks

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November 15, 2011

How to Run Faster

A young sprinter asked me how to get faster at a recent function.  Well, I replied if he had 3 hours to spare.  He looked confused, as this article is

Category icon400 meters,  Coaching,  Track & Field,  Training Tag iconBud Winter,  elastic strength,  Explosive strength,  force,  force application,  Maximal strength,  Reactive strength,  speed endurance,  speed strength,  Starting Blocks,  Strength Training,  stride frequency,  stride length

March 21, 2011

How to Improve your 100 meter Start: Quickness vs. Powerful?

I just completed the first draft for the updated Bud Winter book The Rocket Sprint Start. The original version was from 1964, so I think a new version

Category iconCoaching,  Track & Field Tag iconBud Winter,  reaction time,  Starting Blocks

March 15, 2011

100 Meter Training Videos with Marc Mangiacotti

If you enjoyed the last 800 meter training Master Class, you’ll enjoy this new session. This Master Class is geared for anyone who coaches the 100

Category iconCoaching,  Track & Field Tag icon100 meters,  Marc Mangiacotti,  Starting Blocks,  Vince Anderson

June 28, 2010

9 Mistakes Sprinters Make Before the Championship Meet

You've trained for 46 weeks 5 or 6 days a week.   You've done your 7-10 day taper.  You are injury free and ready to rock and roll. Yet sometimes

Category iconCoaching,  Featured Story,  Success,  Track & Field,  Witty Tag icon5 hour,  Arthur Lydiard,  Caffeine,  coffee,  Heart Rate Variability,  Red Bull,  sleep,  speed suits,  Starting Blocks,  Vitalyze

June 21, 2010

Pre-Race Routine: Getting into the Starting Blocks

This is PART 2: The pre-race routine getting into your starting blocks. PART 1: The pre-race routine before getting into your starting blocks. If

Category icon400 meters,  Coaching,  Featured Story,  Track & Field Tag iconJeremy Wariner,  pre-race routine,  Rome Golden Gala,  Starting Blocks

June 16, 2010

Wyomia Tyus: The Famous Pre-Race Dance to Out-Psych Everyone

This is PART 1: The pre-race routine before getting into your starting blocks. PART 2: The pre-race routine getting into your starting

Category iconOlympic History,  Track & Field Tag iconBarbara Ferrell,  Carl Lewis,  Chi Cheng,  Irena Szewinska,  Mexico 1968,  pre-race routine,  Raylene Boyle,  Starting Blocks,  Tokyo 1964,  Usain Bolt,  Wyomia Tyus

June 2, 2010

Time Trials in Training: Run Alone or in a Group?

When doing time trials during testing week, should you run alone, or as a group? My early days with Coach Dennis Barrett were always in a group to

Category iconCoaching,  Track & Field Tag icon300 meters,  Asafa Powell,  Starting Blocks,  time trials

February 15, 2010

How to Choose Starting Blocks

The best analogy for buying starting blocks is camping. You want to purchase the highest quality boots and tent money can buy. For everything else,

Category iconCoaching,  Shoes & Spikes,  Track & Field Tag iconStarting Blocks

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