How to Train Around Dual Meets (video)
Ah, yes. Dual meets. The bane of the existence of any Championship caliber program.
I’ve already written about how I feel about dual meets, so I won’t go into that here.
But, if you’re forced to compete in too many dual meets during the season, want to know how to deal with/train around multiple dual meets during the course of a single week and/or you want to know how to minimize the damage they do to your training progressions, you’ll want to watch this video:
Want more information like this? Here are the top 3 related resources I recommend:
1. Complete Program Design for Sprinters
2. How to Build the Perfect 100m Sprinter From Start to Finish
3. Complete Speed Training Vol. 2 – How to Build Champion Sprinters
To your success,
Latif Thomas
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Latif,
I purchased your vol 2 series about 6 weeks ago. After reviewing it a couple otimes I began implimenting your description on how to run the 400m with my son. He is a Soph in HS. Come to find out he was “striding” the back straight and then purposefully slowing at 200 mark before kicking again. Times were 49.8 splits in 4x and 50.3′s in open 400. After having him “float” the backstretch andkick at the 200 his times dropped the last 4 mehttp://www.flotrack.org/coverage/238227-2011-Texas-Relays/video/483374-B-4×200-H05-D2ets to 51.7′s+. District prelims were yesterday and he decided to go balls out. his time dropped back to low 50.x which puts him at 2nd fastest for todays final. Do you have any reccomendations that he can try over the next 2 weeks if he makes it to regionals? Here is a vid of him running a 4×2. He is 2nd leg lane 8. Purple/white top.
http://www.flotrack.org/coverage/238227-2011-Texas-Relays/video/483374-B-4×200-H05-D2
Thx
Todd
sorry for the errors and link in middle of txt as Im posting from a droid x. Also since 7th grade his times dropped from 57-54-51respectively but now only to 50 as a soph. thx again.
thanks for your atantion
good progrems
Latif,
I ordered and watched Building Champion Sprinters vol. 2 and it has been a great help. We are coming off the best season in school history (3rd in state 2A) and are currently preparing for the upcoming season. During our competitive cycle, our meet schedule is triangular meets on Wednesday and big invitationals on Friday. Our program is championship oriented so I am not concerned about winning triangulars mid-week. I use this meets (like you) for conditioning, experimenting, experience for younger runners. How would you set up a practice week with a Wednesday/Friday meet schedule? I am like everyone else in that my sprinters, 400m runners are my jumpers. How do you fit their technique work with their weekly run schedule?
Eric Warren
Head Girls Track and Field Coach
Springfield High School
Springfield, Illinois
@Eric:
You can do short approach jumps, take off and landing drills on your non workout days as long as you keep the approaches to 4-5 steps. So I’ll have my jump types do that instead of gs work or tempo runs.
In general terms, I would set up such a week as follows, ask further questions if you have them as I don’t want to write a long response you never check back to see:
M: Intensive Tempo
T: GS/Tempo/Recovery/Technique
W: TRI-MEET
TH: GS/Recovery
F: INVITE
SA: OFF
SU: Speed Development (depends on time of year)