Within the world of 400m coaching, there lies a spectrum of viable approaches we can take to elicit respectable performances out of our sprinters, regardless of age, gender or innate talent level.
Filed under Hurdles, Sprints by on May 7th, 2012. Comment. 
I was going to give you a long song and dance about why I think you should stop what you’re doing and immediately purchase Mike Boyle’s Functional Strength Coach 4.0.
I thought to myself,
Filed under Hurdles, Jumps, Mid Distance, Sprints, Throws by on Apr 23rd, 2012. Comment.
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.
Filed under Hurdles, Jumps, Sprints by on Apr 23rd, 2012. 15 Comments.
Speed Endurance for the Sprint Hurdles
by Tony Veney
How to Develop the High School Sprint Hurdler
Every sprint race has a period where the ability to hold off the effects of fatigue hurts overall performance. In the 100 meter and 100 meter sprint hurdle races, the transition from acceleration, to top end and speed endurance are almost identical. Both races hit max velocity at almost the same location in sub-elite and elite sprinters/hurdlers. But I am not talking about hurdlers we may never see in our careers. I am talking about “Billy Bang a Barrier” and his female counter-part, “Hilary hit a Hurdle”, who both run between 14.5 and 16.0. Each one of these hurdlers is going to hit their max velocity earlier and earlier as their overall time slows. A 14.5 kid will hit top end around hurdles 4-5-6 while the 16.0 kid hits the same area of max effort a hurdle or two sooner. t regardless of where this occurs, the need to develop max speed endurance is critical to your hurdlers training. I have always been taught by my mentors to observe the event and the problem, and then attempt to create a condition at practice to address it. The slower, 16.0 hurdlers must endure for sometimes 3 to 5 hurdles longer than the faster, 14.5 kids. But how can we improve their endurance under duress? Most coaches already run 12 hurdle routines, and even run the 12 hurdle set with the sticks low and close, but somewhere in the run, fatigue is still a problem they must overcome.
Filed under Hurdles by on Apr 19th, 2012. Comment.
This past Saturday I had the distinct pleasure of attending a 6 hour freshman/sophomore meet. The meet was very well run, it was just, you know, a 6 hour freshman/sophomore meet.
Read more on 3 Reasons Sprinters Fall Apart at the End of Races…
Filed under Hurdles, Jumps, Sprints by on Apr 16th, 2012. 17 Comments.
Last week I shared the Cusano Drill, an acceleration drill using hurdles that I like to use with large groups. And we got into a good discussion about whether drills are worth using when athlete don’t do them right.
Filed under Hurdles, Jumps, Sprints by on Apr 11th, 2012. 11 Comments.
Last week, I shared a new (to me) drill for teaching acceleration.
However, since the athletes in the video displayed poor posture, poor mechanics (or both), there was some disagreement about the viability of the drill.
Filed under Hurdles, Jumps, Sprints by on Apr 9th, 2012. 13 Comments.
One idea I’ve been stressing to coaches this year is that workouts don’t teach the skill of acceleration. Or top end speed. Or sprinting in general.
Instead, the ‘workouts’ we use in practice are the byproduct of specific skills we are trying to teach to our sprinters.
Filed under Hurdles, Jumps, Sprints by on Apr 4th, 2012. 16 Comments.
If you coach the sprints and/or hurdles and you’re looking to up your game this spring, here is a list of the resources 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 what your competition has most likely already injected into their programs this season.
Read more on Sprints & Hurdles Programs (on sale this week only)…
Filed under Hurdles, Sprints by on Mar 21st, 2012. Comment.
At this point in your time on this planet, I’m confident you understand how a sale works.
But we’re also launching/releasing/adding Boo Schexnayder’s new ‘High Jump: Technique & Teaching’ DVD (which you can get on its own here) to our curriculum of coaching education resources and expanding his 4 DVD ‘Horizontal Jumps’ package to a 5 DVD ‘Complete Jumps’ package which is a really good deal and you can get the complete program here.
Filed under Distance, Hurdles, Jumps, Mid Distance, Sprints by on Mar 19th, 2012. 4 Comments.
