In 1932, physiologist W.A. Engelhardt, for the first time introduced the definition of the training process as a physiological breakdown that serves as a specific stimulus for the subsequent adaptive recovery process. While Engelhardt’s experiments worked with laboratory animals, injected drugs, and introduced stimuli far above what the animals were accustomed to, this idea became…
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Training High School 400m Runners (Extended Trailer)
Here is a sneak peek at Latif Thomas’s new ‘Training High School 400m Runners‘ program.
400m Training Q&A – Part II
Today I’m answering more common questions about 400m training for high school runners. If you missed my first video, click here. Before you play today’s video, I’d like to apologize in advance for, truly, two of the worst jokes I’ve ever made, as well as my reaction to them. As well as for not editing…
The ‘Missing Link’ in your HS Long Sprints (200,300,400) program?
The biggest mistake high school ‘long sprints’ coaches make is wasting time and energy searching for solutions to problems that don’t exist. You can write the most beautiful annual plan or the most individualized and specific workouts the universe has ever known. But, if your sprinters secretly hate the 400, fear the 400 and/or don’t…