Yesterday I read the Riot Act to my group of sprinters, hurdlers and jumpers. Why? We’re changing training phases and that means each event group requires more event specific training. My life becomes monumentally more difficult because instead of having individualized event training twice per week like we did during general prep, we now…
An interesting point was brought up in the discussion section of my last article on 400m training. A suggestion was made that if you (as a parent) don’t have faith in your high school’s coaches, pull the athlete from the high school team and have them compete for better coaches in a more appropriate environment….
In the wake of Hurricane Irene one of our volunteer assistant coaches asked me how I thought those 60-70mph winds that this storm created would help a sprinter in the 100m. We all know that a tailwind helps in a race. However…he was amazed that I answered by saying that it all depended on an…
If you coach the sprints and/or hurdles and you’re looking to up your game this spring, here is a list of the sprint programs and hurdles programs we have on sale this week. I listed them with the highest selling (number of units sold in 2012) programs first, so you can get a sense of…
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…
So many comments came in so quickly to last week’s ‘The Lance Armstrong Defense’ article about submitting false seed times, I didn’t get a chance to respond to individual questions and statements as I normally do. But, it was such a hot topic I felt it deserved one more day of discussion. So here are…
In middle-distance training it is important that workouts are determined by certain individual anaerobic index performance values that are unique to each athlete. In distance training it is common to use the athlete’s field-tested, date sensitive,VO2 max value to determine workout pace intensity for aerobic work. As an example, a four mile tempo run should…
The 300 and 400 hurdles are the last major event group without a program completed or in production here at CTF. (Throws, 3200/2 mile, Training Model for HS 800-1600 are all completed or near completion.) I’d like to have that program created so we can make it available before the start of the spring track…
Track coaches use the disciplines of physiology and psychology to develop successful athletes. This can be difficult in part because coaches usually work with large groups of athletes in their training group. The application of unique training and psychological stimuli within the training group is called individualization of training. To do this effectively is critical…
If I had to pick one thing that contributed to the success of my sprints/hurdles/jumps program this year, especially being in a new (distance runner based) school, it would be this: I went back to the basics. And the truth is I simply had no choice. This spring, for example, I had to teach…
