Starting Blocks By Latif Thomas The purpose of this article, ultimately, is to explain proper acceleration mechanics. Proper acceleration is crucial to the success of track and field sprinters, but can not be achieved without ideal positioning within the starting blocks. Therefore, we will cover the process from the time the official calls the athletes…
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Save the date!
I’m excited! After countless meetings, emails and phone calls over the past 12 months, I’ve ‘signed’ who I consider to be the best jumps coach in our sport: Boo Schexnayder! And two weeks from today, Monday October 17, we will be releasing his brand new horizontal jumps training resource here at Complete Track and Field….
The Start Position
The Start Position By Tony Veney We’re going to get Adonis to stand in front of the start line. In front of the start line facing this direction and I’m going to want him to take two nice high double knee jumps to get himself ready, go ahead. This is really exploding the legs and…
How To Get Fast
How To Get Fast By Tony Veney How do you get faster? The best way to get faster is to run fast. You must have the speed you need before you can build the endurance to survive it, which is one of the biggest mistakes that coaches make. Speed is 25 times more difficult to develop…
400m Training vs McDonald’s
Last week I posted some information (here and here) about training 400m runners. And I endorsed the speed based ‘short to long’ approach. Invariably, every time this topic comes up, people immediately say, ‘But so and so says train slow to get fast’. Well, here’s the thing about that… If you perennially get a…
Measuring What Matters Part 5 – Meet and Season Performance
Measuring What Matters Part 5 – Meet and Season Performance By Carl Valle With the short sprints, especially the 50-60m sprint, technical execution is a direct influence in performance, but many times the longer 200m event and the 100m performances are a result of program design. The calendar year and other factors such as meet…
Why Usain Bolt Is So Fast
In past articles, I have discussed why stride length and stride frequency should never be taught directly. That they are byproducts of what really determines speed: The amount of force applied to the ground, as well as the length of time and the direction it is applied. To get a clearer understanding of what force…
Measuring what Matters Part 4- Speed Endurance
Measuring what Matters Part 4- Speed Endurance By Carl Valle Speed Endurance can be generalized and the ability to sustain a velocity at the end of a sprint race, provided the athlete distributed the effort properly. Speed Endurance is specific not only to the event, but it’s also specific to the program, time of year,…
Measuring what Matters Part 3 – Maximal Speed
The 100m and 200m sprint events are more maximally speed related, and measuring / testing maximum velocity improvement year to year can shed some light on actual progress in training that meet performance may not be able to provide. It is widely accepted that the ultimate test is the competition itself, but when the meet has…
Measuring what Matters Part 2- Acceleration
Measuring what Matters Part 2- Acceleration By Carl Valle In terms of time contribution, acceleration is a major contributor to the performance in a 100m race, but technically only a quarter of the time in a 200m race. The sport of sprinting has evolved in a way which requires having a complete race, not just being…
Developing Speed in the High School Athlete
Most coaches would probably classify speed as the most critical of all athletic abilities. Yet in spite of this importance, in many programs speed abilities go largely undeveloped. This is often because of the faulty assumption that speed cannot be improved, or simply because so many training systems follow traditional yet ineffective means for developing…
Measuring what Matters – Guidelines to Evaluating Practice Times
Part 1 Is Your Sprinter a Diva or a Rock Star? By Carl Valle The purpose of this article series is to break down the 100m sprint and 200m sprint events into four testing qualities; Acceleration, Maximal Speed, Speed Endurance, and some specific work capacity. While this series is focused on the short sprints, other…