One of the difficult areas to manage as a coach is the development of your sprint hurdles (110H/ 100H). The books out there will give you plenty of technical things to learn and what I want to touch on is the practice session itself. One of the biggest problems continues to be the fact that…
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Inside Tony Veney’s Hurdle Program
In this video, I show you the nuts and bolts of Tony Veney’s new high school hurdle training program, ‘Hurdling Using the Rhythm Method’. Tony Veney’s ‘Hurdling Using the Rhythm Method’
New hurdle program from Tony Veney. Get it now!
If you didn’t compete as a hurdler, you probably struggle with teaching the event more than you do with the sprints (you need a hurdle program!) OK, I’m talking about myself… But, even if you were a hurdler, as my mentor told me the day he hired me many moons ago, “Just because you ran…
Want more hurdle drills? (Watch)
When I was a young(er) coach, I thought the key to developing good hurdlers was to teach a lot of hurdle drills. Trail leg slide this. Walk overs that. Five step trail leg half hurdle this. One step lead leg half hurdle that. Then I started talking to Tony Veney. He said to focus on…
Trail Leg Slide Drill
Trail Leg Slide Drill By Tony Veney Everybody has done some trail leg circles, now we are going to get into trail leg slides. One of the reasons why I like this particular drill is it really requires the athlete to get themselves in the proper position, gets another good stretch into the hips, but…
Hurdle Drills
Hurdle Drills By Tony Veney One of the things that’s a little different aside from frequency and stride length as far as hurdling is concerned and sprint hurdling, as opposed to regular sprinting, is the big split that you are going to get between the legs as a hurdler attacks and moves through their hurdle…