It’s Championship Season and, if you’re a coach, you’re hoping you’ve put your athletes in position to have their best performances during this small window of ‘win or go home’ meets. So at this time of year, I get a lot of questions about peaking. -What are the best workouts to get athletes to…
How To Get Fast By Tony Veney How do you get faster? The best way to get faster is to run fast. You must have the speed you need before you can build the endurance to survive it, which is one of the biggest mistakes that coaches make. Speed is 25 times more difficult to develop…
I recently heard Dan Pfaff talk about acceleration being a ‘complicated neuromuscular equation’ in speed training. I recently heard Boo Schexnayder say acceleration is about finding the ‘resonant frequency of oscillary patterns’ in terms of developing and improving the efficiency of locomotive mechanics. I recently heard Gary Winckler say, “90% of speed development is technique.”…
Over the next week, we’ll be promoting two new programs, both of which I highly recommend. I’m letting you know in advance, to be honest, in order to avoid returns from those of you who get the one coming out tomorrow and then realize, next week, that you’d rather have that one. The first new…
I’ll be giving three presentations at this year’s US All Star T&F Clinic in Atlantic City on December 13- 14, 2012. As you probably know, this is one of the biggest clinics in the US so I highly recommend you attend if you can get there. You will certainly leave a better coach. I’m scheduled…
The word competition takes on many meanings in the natural world. For two animals in competition for the same basic needs in the same ecosystem, it means survival, and ultimately life and death. Fortunately for humans, competition in the athletic domain of our society has far less consequences. Loosely defined for sporting application, competition is…
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….
What’s the main reason our Master Classes are different than other programs and resources you’ve seen online? Access to the coaches. When coaches agree to create Master Class curriculum, they agree to continue to answer customer questions as long as the program is still available. So you won’t be left on your own to…
Each summer I like to write an article about whether or not sprinters should run cross country and, if they do, what should happen. To progressive programs and coaches, running a ‘modified’ cross country program for sprint types who want to be successful is, at the very least, an interesting option. On the other side…
Horizontal Jumping 101 By Cameron Gary Running and jumping (along with lifting and throwing) are the most fundamental of human athletic movements. The Olympic Motto of “Citius, Altius, Fortius” (faster, higher, stronger) illustrates the applicability of these basic performance attributes. However, to avoid digressing into a history lesson, suffice it to say that in sprint/jump…
