At the end of the day, if we can’t get our athletes to three step their race, we’re not very good hurdle coaches. But, the reason they’re not three stepping between, say, hurdle three and four, isn’t because of what they’re doing between hurdle three and four. In the jumps, we know that every problem…
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Coaches & Parents: Go to this clinic
Generally, when you imagine a summer track & field clinic, you assume it is for athletes. And the primary focus of the 2012 Complete Track & Field Summer Clinic is helping the athletes. However, we’ve designed the event for coaches (and parent coaches) as well. Here is how our clinic is different than all the…
Why I won’t be coaching at the 2012 CTF Summer Clinic
By now, you’re well aware of how much people enjoyed last year’s clinic. And if you haven’t signed up yet, you only have two weeks to register before we have to jack up the price and/or shut down certain event groups. (Session I: Sprints for example) But, the more I work on setting up the…
What is The Best Way to train 400m runners?
Within the world of 400m coaching, there lies a spectrum of viable approaches we can take to elicit respectable performances out of our sprinters, regardless of age, gender or innate talent level, especially when you want to train 400m runners. Combine my lack of belief in concepts like ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ with being hypercompetitive well…
Program Review: Planning Training for the Jumping Events with Boo Schexnayder
As you (hopefully) know, acclaimed jumps coach Boo Schexnayder has just released his newest coaching education Master Class, ‘Planning Training for the Jumping Events‘. For the serious jumps coach, in my opinion, it’s a ‘no brainer’. And, as orders have come in, I’m not surprised to see the same names I always see when a…
What the hell is a ‘wicket drill’? (Video)
Last week I shared the Cusano Drill, an acceleration drill using hurdles that I like to use with large groups. And we got into a good discussion about whether drills are worth using when athlete don’t do them right. But the truth is that most of our sprinters spend most of their races trying to…
3 Phases of the Horizontal Jumps Approach
INTRODUCTION The key to a great jumping performance is consistency. Consistency in the approach begins in the first two to three strides of the approach run-up. The horizontal jumps approach has the same goal as any short sprint race: to accelerate as long as possible and to hold maximum velocity. I plan on talking about…