The summer months are an excellent time to review the scientific basics of the aerobic energy system training and reflect back on how your athletes performed last spring following their particular training program. From the performance data sets of your athletes you can diagnostically check to see if you had them properly prepared for the…
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Do Not Neglect Speed and Speed Endurance Workouts
Modern training theory is invaluable in applying scientific research to the development of middle-distance runners. Knowing how to set up training microcycles that include all of the necessary session components during a training phase is critical to progressive development. Modern training theory does not suggest that training microcycles need to be seven days in length. …
How to Run the 800 Meter
Click here to watch How to Run the 800 Meter Hi, everybody. Welcome to Stillwater High School. This is the human performance lab that I have and my physiology classroom here in Stillwater, Minnesota, and I’d like to talk to you today about how to run the 800 meter and a little bit about developing…
Middle Distance Winter Training
Middle distance winter training is the time of the year that many physiological development gains can be made in middle distance athlete fitness, and not just in the endurance component of training. Speed, strength, coordination, and flexibility gains can be realized as well during this calendar period despite the weather. It can also be a…
The Essence of the Endurance Training Program
Over the past 60 years all sport training models have benefited from the scientific principles that scientists have developed to explain the natural world. The application of scientific laws and theories by coaches has transformed athletic training from a trial and error method to a systematic model of periodized development. The important link in this…
Race Strategy and Tactics for the Endurance Events: 800 – 5000 meters
In track and field and cross country, the race is the assessment tool that endurance coaches use to determine the present day fitness of their athletes. Race performance is a complex cumulative blend of various physiological variables as well as known and unknown factors that hinder or help race performance on the psychological side of…