In Part 1, I explained the many benefits of using back-to-back training sessions of high neuromuscular demand as a model when your are planning training for your sprinters. In regular people terms this means back-to-back speed days. If you haven’t read it, it’s worth checking out before continuing on here because it explains the underlying…
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The Best Way to Teach Top Speed Mechanics? The Wicket Drill (VIDEO)
Ron Grigg’s ‘Complete Program Design for 400/600/800m Athletes’ Becoming ‘trilingual’ is crucial to your ability to plan effective training for your combo 400/800 runners. Your first step is to understand athlete and event characteristics in order to provide a framework for training. To better speak ‘distance coach’, I showed you why 10k pace reps are critical…
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…