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Archives for Tony Veney
Blizzard of 2015: Video Playlist
Where I live, there’s a blizzard happening. I can’t tell you how excited I am to shovel the 24+ inches of snow that has fallen. By excited, I mean I will cry myself to sleep tonight. Regardless, I thought I’d share a video playlist from my YouTube Channel. And by ‘I thought’, I mean I…
300 Hurdles & 400 Hurdles: Systems vs Philosophies
Some coaches have a system for training various event groups. This system is applied to all athletes in the group, regardless of whether such a system is best suited for that particular type of athlete. At the collegiate level this can work for knowledgeable coaches because they have the option of recruiting the types of…
Managing the Meet Warm Up and Warm Down During Competitions
Recently I was watching athletes warming up at a track meet where they had multiple races and rounds to run. I was surprised when I saw a kid I was recruiting running the 100m, 200m and both relays perform her full meet warm up four times with four full warm down routines. How does this…
6 Signs You’re Over Coaching Your Athletes at Meets
As I go into the 42nd year of my coaching career, I wanted to make sure I wasn’t one of “those” coaches. You know the one I’m talking about. The guy who thinks he’s been coaching 42 years but has only really coached one year 42 times (thank you Gary Winckler for that bit of wisdom)! …
The Top 3 Articles, Programs & Answers of February 2014
I understand you may not have time to catch everything I post each month. As I continue to increase the frequency of new posts across the spectrum of event groups and training modalities, I put together a ‘Best of’ each month so you can get your track nerd on. Below are ‘The Top 3 of…
The Top 3 Articles, Programs & Answers of January 2014
I understand you may not have time to catch everything I post each month. And since I didn’t do a ‘Top 3’ for December, if you don’t follow me on Twitter and/or Facebook, you may have missed a number of thought provoking (and exclusive) blog entries I posted over the last couple month or…
The Top 3 Articles, Programs & Answers of November 2013
I understand you may not have time to catch everything that we post on CompleteTrackandField.com during the course of the month. So, today I’m doing a quick(ish) recap since you probably missed some stuff you’d be interested in. Below are ‘The Top 3 of November 2013′ for the following categories: 3 Most Popular Articles, 3…
The Top 3 Articles, Programs & Answers of October 2013
I understand you probably don’t have time to catch everything that we post on CompleteTrackandField.com during the course of the month. So, today I’m doing a quick(ish) recap since you probably missed some stuff you’d be interested in. Below are ‘The Top 3 of October 2013’ for the following categories: 3 Most Popular Articles, 3…
How to Fix a Lazy Hurdle Trail Leg
If you attend clinics and seminars with any degree of regularity, you know that some of the best information gets shared between sessions and at the social when talking shop with presenters and other coaches. That’s why I think the Q&A aspect of Coach Veney’s new Advanced Hurdle Development program is extremely underrated. Today, I’m…
How to Fix 6 Common Mistakes in the Sprint Hurdles
When starting a new track season, many coaches and athletes alike busy themselves setting goals based on performances from the previous year. Getting faster, stronger, tougher, and more powerful are among the many attributes that when increased can lead to new personal bests. But sometimes the new goals are still a ways off due to…
Top 6 Sprint Hurdle Training Parameters
With hurdle training, before you decide how fast you want your hurdler to run in 2014, you need to determine what is necessary in order to drop from 15.50 to 14.65, or 17.00 to 15.70. Look at your annual track schedule and decide how many races you expect your hurdler to run for the year….