Before I get to the Q&A, here are two new programs/resources you don’t want to miss: 1. After years of requests, I’m excited to announce we’re taking registrations for the 2011 New England Sprints & Jumps Clinic. Register early! 2. If you can’t get enough Track & Field information, tips and ideas, you’ll be…
Development of Speed in the Horizontal Jumper Boo Schexnayder Development of speed in the horizontal jumper is one of the most important and difficult tasks that coaches face. In one sense, development of speed is an extremely simple process. When simple guidelines are patiently followed, the program will generally be successful. But in another sense,…
For me, an indoor and spring track coach, the indoor track season starts in 24 days. The pressure and excitement are starting to build. I feel very good about my preparation for the upcoming season, as well as the upgrades I’m making to my programs. (Except for the part where Vince Anderson said I had…
Jumps coaches – All of Boo Schexnayder’s Jumps Coaching DVDs are on sale this week. You can get any of the individual event DVDs or get the entire 5 DVD package for an even bigger discount. I’ve provided individual links for the full package, the individual jumps DVDs and the accompanying strength and power training…
The useful thing about modern training theory is that it was put together by scientists using empirical and replicable evidence rather than a hodge-podge of ideas and intellectual artifacts advanced by coaches. Because it is rooted in science, training theory is an ever-changing set of principles and concepts that evolve as better scientific testing is…
Distance running at any temperature generates metabolic heat production inside the athlete, even with cold weather running. The chemical conversion of carbohydrate and fats to ATP is only about 35% efficient, with the remaining 65% lost as heat in the complicated bio-chemical processes inside the cell. While this seems like a lot of lost heat,…
Let’s look at three more hurdle qualities I believe can assist coaches in making them better able to make your “Newbie” hurdlers fast and your experienced hurdlers faster. I had a community college guy who was competition in his first decathlon, and was terrified of the high hurdles. The hurdle height did not scare him…
The human foot is designed to only do two things, propel the body forward and absorb the shock of doing so. The center of mass of the body must balance itself on a broad, saddle-shaped pelvis that distributes the weight of the organism equally on either side of the sagittal plane straight down to…
Over the last 50 years the training of distance runners has evolved from a process of trial and error testing, to specific event-centered progressions that are deeply based in the scientific method. Exercise physiologists, cardiologists, and endocrinologists, working with training theorists, have provided a wealth of empirical evidence for coaches to use as a resource…
Today is the one day of the year I like to take some time to reflect on where I’ve been, where I’m at and where I’m going. Because I believe, fundamentally, that our external reality is the mirror image of our internal reality. The physical manifestation of our thoughts, beliefs and expectations. (I know, I…
