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Discus R.V.M. Drill – John Ridgeway and Greg Pilling

Coach John Ridgeway explains and Greg Pilling demonstrates the Discus R.V.M. Drill

Nov 26, 2014

Horizontal Jumps – Box Drills – Cliff Rovelto – KS ST. Univ.

Coach Cliff Rovelto explains and an athlete demonstrates these Horizontal Jumps – Box Drills

Nov 26, 2014

Training With Data

In High School, College, and at the Professional Level: Insights into how mid to long distance coaches perceive and use data to drive performance and progress.

Nov 26, 2014

100m Race Strategy with Dana Boone – Texas State Univ.

Coach Dana Boone discusses 100m Race Strategy

Nov 12, 2014

Common Ground – Technical Commonalities in the Jumps

Developing Horizontal Force. The approach should provide the jumper with horizontal momentum and velocity. This assists performances in events with great horizontal components. This horizontal velocity also eccentrically loads of the muscles of…

Nov 12, 2014

Discobolus

Old may not be quite the right word in the above title. Ancient may be the better word to describe twist in the context of this article. The most accurate Roman copy of the Greek original, Myron’s Discobolus circa 450-460 BC, “…is today…

Oct 21, 2014

High Jump Landing Drill – John Gartland – IN State Univ.

Coach Gartland explains and High Jumpers demonstrate this Landing Drill

Oct 21, 2014

Hurdle Landing Drills – Doug Case – Univ. of AR

Coach Doug Case explains and Hurdlers demonstrate these Landing Drills

Oct 21, 2014

Restoration and Recovery – Will Freeman

Coach Will Freeman discusses the importance of Restoration and Recovery

Oct 8, 2014

Acceleration Drills with Cliff Rovelto – Kansas State Univ.

Coach Cliff Rovelto discusses Acceleration Drills

Oct 8, 2014

800-1500M 8 Lane Tempo Run – Rose Monday

Coach Rose Monday discusses this 8 Lane Tempo Run

Sep 24, 2014

Hurdles Form Training Drills – Karim Abdel Wahab – CO State Univ.

Coach Karim Abdel Wahab explains and players demonstrate these Hurdles Form Training Drills

Sep 10, 2014

Track Exercises that Build Explosive Muscle

If you are a sprinter, jumper or thrower, you need to be explosive. Without this essential attribute, you will be left standing on the blocks, miss your jump height or fail to match your opponents on your throws.

The key to getting more…

Aug 29, 2014

Ties that Bind

After over twenty years as an athlete and coach in the sports of cross country and track & field reflecting on my experiences, both positive and negative, has helped me understand what it is I do and where my greatest successes have been…

Aug 29, 2014

Warm Ups for Sprints and Hurdles with Cliff Rovelto – Kansas State Univ.

Coach Cliff Rovelto discusses warm ups for sprints and hurdles

Aug 27, 2014

High Jump Takeoff – Short Approach Drill – John Gartland – IN State Univ.

Coach John Gartland explains and high jumpers perform this Short Approach Drill

Aug 27, 2014

Women’s Track Workout: Increasing Speed in the Weight Room

Over the course of my career, I have had opportunities to work with some very talented female track athletes, including NCAA Championship Qualifier and Academic All-American Jenna Caffrey (Iowa State). One overarching theme I’ve seen: no elite…

Aug 26, 2014

Ground-based Exercises to Aid with Acceleration

Acceleration is a force characterized by pushing. To accelerate forward an athlete must impart a backward force, a push, into the ground. The stronger the force is applied (with optimal technique), the faster the athlete accelerates. Force should…

Jul 30, 2014

Warm-up and Cool Down – Two Crucial Details on Race Day

In thirty years of coaching successful distance runners I listened to, read about, or discussed with colleagues the merits and shortcomings of many different types of training programs. Many people, athletes in particular, seemed to spend…

Jul 30, 2014

Projected Maxes: A Safer Approach to Maxing Out

In order to monitor progress in the weight room, it is necessary to devise a safe and accurate testing procedure. Single repetition maxes are the most frequently used form of testing and monitoring progress. In single repetition maxing, heavy …

Jul 30, 2014

Pre-Season Conditioning

The key to a successful track and field season can be made or broken in the first 35% of the season. Most training theorist state that the general preparatory facet of the season should be between thirty and forty percent of the overall season.

Jul 30, 2014

Properly Programming and Scheduling In-Season Weight Training

For the most part, certain sports have it easy when it comes to in-season weight training. Football has games on Friday nights so weight training on Mondays and Wednesdays makes perfect sense. For many other sports like track and field…

Jul 30, 2014

Using General Strength in the Training Regimen

General Strength exercises are exercises that develop strength, using the athlete’s bodyweight as the sole load or resistance. In general strength work no external loading is applied. General strength exercises can run the gamut from simple…

Jul 30, 2014

7 Awesome Medicine Ball Drills to Increase Speed!

Here is a quick tutorial on physics. Newton’s third law of action reaction basically states that when ever there is a force applied, there is an equal and opposite reaction meeting that force. This is the concept I use medicine ball training to…

Jul 30, 2014

IRON – The Missing Nutritional Link to Performance

Coaches, athletes, and athletic trainers are bombarded with copious recommendations regarding the perfect formula and factors that will be conducive to optimal performance. Some of these contain fallacies that can stump the individual as to which…

Jul 30, 2014

Sprint Training for the 100/200 Meters

Many coaches believe that athletes are born “God-Given” SPEED and nothing can be done to change it. As a coach with over twenty years experience at the high school, junior college and university levels, I strongly disagree with this statement, to…

Jul 30, 2014

Sprint Training – Energy Systems

At the beginning of each track season, you sit down and evaluate the returning and the incoming talent. The thoughts eventually shift to the top sprinters and the expectations we both have for the upcoming season. If girls or boys ran 12.5 or 11.0…

Jul 30, 2014

Starting Blocks (4-Point Start)

Starting block work is considered the most important tool in sprinting events. Many novice sprinters are anxious with starting block work. It definitely is a tool that doesn’t allow much room for error; however, once perfected it will indeed help…

Jul 30, 2014

Developing Speed: A Neurological Approach

There are many methods for developing speed. An athlete’s ability to accelerate and sprint is based on the ability to generate large force production in the lower musculature extremities. Evidence-based literature suggests that “high resistance…

Jul 30, 2014

Objectives…Middle Distance and Distance Running

1. Must build strength.. Not talking about bulk
A. Includes strength from weights and resistance and strength in running. This is a necessity.

2. Must increase endurance. This is a must and we must continue to build up what we have.

Jul 30, 2014
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Skills & Drills

  • Useful Hurdle Exercises with Vince Anderson – (Retired) Texas A&M Univ.

    Useful Hurdle Exercises with Vince Anderson – (Retired) Texas A&M Univ.

  • Wicket Drills with Chris Parno – Minnesota State Univ., Mankato

    Wicket Drills with Chris Parno – Minnesota State Univ., Mankato

  • Valsalva Maneuver (Holding Your Breath) with Dave Pavlansky – USATF

    Valsalva Maneuver (Holding Your Breath) with Dave Pavlansky – USATF

  • Throws Box Jumps with A.G. Kruger – Ashland Univ.

    Throws Box Jumps with A.G. Kruger – Ashland Univ.

  • Pole Vault: What to Do When Technique Begins to Break Down with David Butler – Rice Univ.

    Pole Vault: What to Do When Technique Begins to Break Down with David Butler – Rice Univ.

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