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#65: Gill1918 presents David Neville "Finding and Developing Sprinters" Part 1 | Glazier Clinics · The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast

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David Neville of Georgia Southern University.
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He's going to be speaking on developing and finding
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sprinters. And so this is going to be Part
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Now let's get into today's topic.
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Definitely. Well, thank you.
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Thank you for having me. I want to say thank you to
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everyone who's who's joining in, who's checking out what we're
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doing today. I'm, I'm always excited to have
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an opportunity just to share a little bit of, of knowledge with
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other coaches who may be seeking, just trying to figure
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out how they can get their athletes to be a little bit
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better. And maybe you're a coach who's
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just for the first time getting ready to take on coaching track
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and field, and you're trying to find out, you know, how to put
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workouts together, who, who to go after, what to look for in
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athletes and really how to get, you know, your program up and
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running. I'm, I'm excited that today is
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an opportunity that I get to share just a little bit of
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knowledge and information with you all about what I'm doing.
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You know, as, as he mentioned, I'm going to be doing 3
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different, I guess, kind of segments today.
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And so at the end of each of those individual segments will
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have an opportunity to ask me questions so that we can kind of
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keep those questions within each, each segment of of the
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information that I'm trying to share with you today.
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So the first one that we're going to be talking about today
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is that finding and developing that talent.
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So I'm going to share share my screen here with you all so that
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you can see what I am seeing and and looking at when we're trying
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to find and develop those sprinters here for track and
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field. So just give me one second while
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I pull up this this screen and then we will get this this show
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on the road here. OK, All right.
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So I guess that we're talking about finding and developing
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sprinters. What does that really look like?
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Before I get get into this, this slide, I want to share, I like
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to share a little bit of information.
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Some people, key people that I want to thank because they have
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always been very inspirational and informational and kind of my
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my progress and development as a coach.
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And I think it's very, very important that we all have
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mentors and people that we look up to.
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And so there's some people that are mentioned here that have
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been kind of worked with some of the stuff that I, I've typically
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done here in the past. And so, yeah, I always want to
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recognize them. And if you have questions about
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these people and, and what they've done in the
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conversations that I've been able to have with them, feel
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free to always reach out at the end of this.
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I'll give you my contact information also.
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So today and talking about finding and developing
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sprinters, there's some key things that we want to talk
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about and really kind of discussed and hone and I.
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So I got 5 main. What kind of points here that
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we're going to talk about which the first one is what
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characteristics to look for? Like what are the ideal type of
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people that could be who you could choose, who you could be
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looking for when you're roaming the hallways of your high
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schools or whatever it may be. Like what are these key things
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that I should be looking for? Or you've heard certain things
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about athletes that may be in other sports.
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We're talking about men and talking about women or boys and
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girls at your high school. What are those key people that
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I'm looking for? Secondly, the, the typical body
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types. All right, as much as or as hard
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as it may be for us as coaches, we have to, you know, more times
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than not, I can see someone walking down the street and
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because of the their body type, the makeup of what they look
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like, I may say, oh man, that person looks like they could be
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a great high jumper. I mean, they may not be able to
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get an inch off the ground, but because of the way that they're
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built, they may have some characteristics in their body
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types that can really stand out to me as someone who may be able
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to do this event. And it's the same thing for
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sprinters. There are certain type of body
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types because of how the body is biologically made-up, that could
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be better for certain events, even within the Sprint.
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And so we'll talk a little bit about that.
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Then thirdly, we'll talk about the mindset.
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What type of mindset is needed to be a sprinter When you're
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going and you're looking at finding and developing those
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sprinters, who am I looking for? Where has their, you know,
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their, their mental makeup and their clarity and what can they
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do? Those are key, especially when
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you start talking about the fourth point, what events to run
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them in. And so just because you got a
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sprinter, don't mean they can do everything in the Sprint realm
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because you've got everything that ranges from the 100 meter
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dash all the way up to the 404 hundred hurdles.
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If we're talking about looping in the hurdles into this
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discussion as well. And then finally, how to train
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them. And so we'll talk a little bit
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about how you should train these athletes when, especially when
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we start talking about the developing part, right?
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So it's one thing to go out and find them and get them and bring
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them here. But if you don't know what
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you're doing with them once you get them, then all that it, it
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just goes to crap and it means nothing.
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So let's first kick it off by talking about some of the best
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characteristics to look for in hundred 200 meter runners.
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And so I'll be talking, like I said about both the the boys and
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the girls or men and women with our program at Georgia Southern,
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we only have women here. And so it's but it's only been
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one year that I've only been working with women.
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So previously I was at the I was at the University of Tennessee
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in Knoxville for five years. And while I was there for five
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years, I coached both men and women.
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And prior to that, I was, I was at Taylor University in Indiana
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for three years, coach both men and women.
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So I have experience on both sides.
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And so some of the key characteristics that we want to
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look for first of all, is the ability to be aggressive.
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If you're talking about someone who's a hundred 200m runner,
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we're talking about short sprinters.
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And these are the people that need to be the most aggressive
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within your team, within your roster, the people you're
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looking for. And so when I say aggressive, I
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don't mean mean, but I mean it can really get after, right.
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If you need them to go and dig hard and, and get down and
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dirty, they're willing to do that.
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They are an aggressive person. They're strong, they they can
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move. And so you want to find someone
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who is willing to put it all out there, even if it's just for a
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short burst of time, they are willing to put it all out there.
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OK, so the first thing is that they must be aggressive and
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ain't going to do you no good. If you're going to get someone
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out there who's not willing to go out there and just really
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hammer it when you're training and coaching short sprinters,
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they need to be able to do, you know, you got to do block
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starts, right? You block starts.
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The best thing that you need to do is line them up next to each
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other, have them race off. Well, if you got someone who's
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soft and can't get after it, they're not cut out for the 100
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to 200. All right.
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So first be very aggressive. Secondly, you want someone who's
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very explosive in the plyometric jumps.
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And So what do I mean by that? If you if you know anything
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about plyometrics, you've got box jumps, you've got hurdle
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jumps, you've got bounds, it can be sandhops.
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There are very different types of exercises that you can do to
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utilize and get explosive pop out of your sprinters and 100
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and 200 meter runners need to be able to be explosive in the
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plyometric jumps on a on a weekly basis.
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We do some type of plyometric movements or work with our
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programs. And so that can be something as
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simple as I have our athletes doing regular box jumps to have
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them doing multi jumps where we're going over multiple
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hurdles, hurdle hops. All right.
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And when I say hurdle hops, I'm not meaning like those little
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baby hurdles. So you can do those, but I'm
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also meaning the normal hurdle height.
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And sometimes we'll raise them up a higher than that for women.
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And you can raise them up as high as you can get them so that
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your athletes can learn how to be bouncy and springy off the
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ground, right? Track and field.
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Part of the sprinting aspect of it is that the athletes need to
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be able to put force into the ground and explode and get off
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that ground quickly, right, so that they can fly across the
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track. Well, they need to be able to be
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explosive, all right. So just because they're
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aggressive doesn't mean they're explosive, all right, So let's
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make sure we keep that those two things separately.
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Thirdly, powerful in the weight room, you got to be able to move
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some weight, all right. Now, there are some athletes
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that especially in high school coach just won't do a whole lot
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in the weight room. And that's but I believe that
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it's important to make sure that you're progressing them so that
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by the time they get done their senior year, they are at a place
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where they can be ready to go to whatever college program they're
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going to go to. If they're going to run track
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and field where they can have some at least basic knowledge of
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the Olympic lifts, right, Back squats, dead lifts, cleans.
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And in our program, we do those three, We include snatches, we
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include cleaning jerks, we do front squats, right?
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And I'm not telling you that you have to do all of these
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exercises from the Olympic lifting side of the weight room,
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but your sprinters, short sprinters in particular, hundred
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200 meter runners need to be able to generate power.
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OK, If you're going from a standstill position, which is
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what we're doing in the block start and you need to be
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explored, explosive and get out, part of that is power.
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And how much power can you generate?
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When you start talking about the 100 and the 200 meter dash, the
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1st 2030 meters of the race is not the fastest portion of the
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race. That is the power portion which
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will get you up to speed. And so it's important to make
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sure that we are powerful and utilizing the weight room
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effectively. And obviously weight room talk
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for sprinters is a whole nother scale.
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It is not the same thing as talking about putting them out
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in front of a in utilizing football weight room training.
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All right, and I have no issue with what football players do in
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the weight room, but it's not the same thing when it comes to
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track and field. So please, please do not utilize
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the same type of lifting program for your football athletes or
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have your athletes who are doing football think that they should
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be doing the same exact type of lifts with track and field.
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There is a difference and it's important to make sure that you
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understand that and that can be a, a whole another discussion.
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But that is one thing I, I caution you against when it
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comes to training those short sprinters.
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And then the last part here that they need to have great top end
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speed. And So what I mean by that top
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end speed, it takes about 30 to 40 meters for you to get up to
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stop speed. So from 30 meters to 60 meters,
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that is the realm where athletes are at their fastest.
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You can only hold top end speed for approximately 3 seconds at
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your fastest. So what is the Max velocity, Max
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velocity of that runner? What is their ability?
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Can they hold some great top end speed and how long can they do
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that? So those are the characteristics
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that we want to look at. We want to make sure that we
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have established when talking about our short sprinters, 100
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meter, 200 meter runners, All right?
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So when the body types look like for those athletes, right,
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Typically they're higher cut athletes.
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And when we say higher cut, it means their hips are a little
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taller, OK? It means that they're not long
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torsoed athletes typically, right?
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OK. And longer legs.
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And this is for all sprinters. But when I'm talking about short
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sprinters than this, but that can kind of go for all sprinters
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as well. Typically you're a short
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sprinter are average height or a little shorter.
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The ones that are on the team, that's just what they typically
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are because they can come, because they are more compact,
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right? Which I talk, I talk a little
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bit here about because they're a little bit more compact.
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They're able to generate force and over short distances quicker
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than someone who may be a little bit taller.
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It takes them a little longer to unwind.
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Now, the fastest man ever to run, Usain Bolt is a little
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different. He's an anomaly.
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You typically don't see sprinters that are 6 foot five.
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They can run that fast. He's a special Unicorn, as they
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say. All right.
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And and as I said, they're more muscular and built, and I talked
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about being compact already. So that's what a short
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sprinter's body types typically look like, the characteristics
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for A200400 meter runner. So now we're talking about the
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long Sprint. I was the long sprinter.
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OK, So I'm not short. I'm about 6 foot 4 long legs, so
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we'll talk about the body types of of those in a little bit
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here. But for the characteristics,
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when we're talking about two hundred 400 meter runners, you
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want to find your best all around athletes.
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So those are athletes that can maybe do a little bit, go a
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little higher in distance. When I say higher, I mean like
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to the 600 to the 800, but they can also run down and go down
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and drop and run the 100, right? So they they need to have that
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speed, but they also have to have a strength component to
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what they're doing if you want to have a good successful
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forward to be a runner. So finding someone who is a grid
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all around athlete, they they should have a higher than
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average strength tolerance when it comes to long run.
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So there are many different philosophies when it comes to
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coaching the event of the 400. All right, Some people say,
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well, I'll never put my semi long sprinter, MY200400 meter
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runner on a long run. OK.
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Some people will do some tempo runs just to build some
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endurance and some strength. OK, I'm a good mixture of both.
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I don't do a whole lot of long stuff, but one time a week I
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typically will send my long sprinters on a run just to build
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up some strength and endurance. OK, That's something that my
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coach did, my professional coach did, and I believe in that part
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portion of making sure that my athletes are strong, but we do a
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heck of a lot of sprinting and acceleration work.
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OK, so the next part here is that they're hard workers.
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Obviously being a 400m runner, it's it's hard.
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It's tough. You got to be able to put in
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more work than your average short spur does, right?
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Yes, they can be fast and short spur maybe out there running a
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whole bunch of 30s and 40s and 60s, but you're 400 meter
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runners, You're going to have to go go around that track a little
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bit. So you want to make sure that
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they're hard worker, someone who's not willing to shy away
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from the type of work that it takes to be a great 400 meter or
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two 4 runner. And then lastly, they need to be
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able, they need to have speed. And so just because they're a
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little taller doesn't mean they shouldn't be able to run fast.
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All throughout high school, even throughout college, I ran even a
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little bit during my professional career early on in
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the year, I ran on some 4 by ones.
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And so your 400m runners can run on the long relays and the short
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relays, all right. So I think it's important to
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make sure that you train the speed aspect of being a 400
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meter A2 4 runner. If you're running a 200, you're
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sprinting against hundred 200 meter runners, they're going to
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be fast. Same thing needs to happen with
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your 400 meter runners. They got to be able to go
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200400OR48400800 depending on what type of athlete it is.
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Sprinters that are 400 meter, runners that are more strength
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based so they can go up. That wasn't me, but I have
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coached some of those runners that are like that, all right.
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And then there are many of them they can go down and run more
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faster 200. So those are some of the
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characteristics when we're talking about looking for 204
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hundred meter runners. Now the body types of those
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higher cut like I spoke about taller than most of the other
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sprinters on the team. All right, So that's what their
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body types typically are, what they look like.
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They're lengthy, they're long leg, the long arm.
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That's how I'm built. That's how the majority of top
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400 meter runners are, OK and and they're typically a little
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bit thinner and build OK, not as compact.
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They're not trying to produce or or get out as much speed over a
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short period of time. They've got a longer distance.
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They need to do that when you're talking about the long
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sprinters. All right, So those are the body
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types gone through the body types and the characteristics
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for both short and long sprinters.
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Let's move on to the mindset and what the mentality of what those
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athletes look like. So they are mentally strong,
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okay? And so when I say mentally
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strong is a sprinter, you got to be able to stand up and line up
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face to face against everybody else, right?
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Everyone's on that line across from you and be zoned into that
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gun because that gun's going to go off and everyone's going to
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take off. So they need to be mentally
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strong athletes. When we talk about someone who
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is a good executor, what I'm meaning specifically, I'll
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probably say this more for the long sprints then I would say
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this for the short sprints, right?
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There is execution that must take place in every single
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event. But when we look at something
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like the 400, it unfolds over a longer period of time and so
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there are more parts or areas in the race where you can mess up
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and not follow the game plan. Or even for some, they just
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think too much and they try to do things that aren't what you
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practice and what you worked on. All right, So when that's what
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I'm meaning when I'm talking about being the execution, and
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the same thing has to happen even in the short sprints, like
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I said, you've got only 100 meters.
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If we're talking about the 100 meter dash, you've only got 100
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meters to let the race unfold, right?
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So if you don't get out, if you don't react to the gun because
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you're not mentally strong, you're not zoned in or locked in
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on what you hear, then you won't get out with everyone else.
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You're already be left behind and you don't have as much time
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to make up. For war for that mistake, right?
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But there are also some technical components, making
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sure that you're running with good technique, making sure that
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you're transitioning and you're building into certain areas or
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phases of your race. OK, Also, the mindset is that
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you cannot be afraid to run both shorter and longer races.
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And what do I mean by that? I have every single one of my
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4:00, every single one of my 100 meter runners, short sprinters
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at the very beginning of the year, all of them will at least
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run one 4x4. I use it as part of my training.
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I use it to take some people out of their comfort zone.
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But I also at times are able to find someone who we may not have
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known had the ability to go out there and run on a 4 by 4 and
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contribute and really help the program and the team.
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So I think it's important to make sure that you're not afraid
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as a coach to put them in a race like that, but also that they're
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not afraid to step up and say, hey, this is what coach thinks
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is going to help me be better. If I run the 200, which your
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100m runner should be running the 200 as well, then this 4 by
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4 is going to help them. It's going to help strengthen
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them so that they can hold on longer and they can try to hold
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that top speed a little bit longer when it comes to 200 and
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execute that a little bit better.
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So not afraid to run both the shorter and longer races.
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Like I said, your 400 meter runners should be able to
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contribute when it comes to the four by one.
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Sometimes you may have a smaller roster.
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You don't know who's going to go down and someone's going to be
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able to step up. And sometimes that's somebody
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who doesn't normally run that event.
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You might have to ship them down there.
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All right. And if they're willing to put
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their body through the gauntlet for the team.
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And by that what I mean is think about a conference championship
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meet or something like that. And you have your team has a
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good opportunity to win. Sometimes you got to ride on the
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back of and a certain athlete. Now that's not some, that's not
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a way that you should always try to organize and put your team
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together. But sometimes there's people
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that you will find who can be great athletes and they can
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spread them across multiple events that can really help your
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program from a point standpoint. And so that's what I mean by
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willing to put their bodies through the gauntlet.
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All right, so let's talk a little bit about training here.
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All right, so training, when I talk about training, I'm talking
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about block work. And so when we say block work,
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we're talking about making sure that the athletes are able to,
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excuse me, let me make sure I meet, that the athletes are able
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to get enough practice. If you have multiple athletes,
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you face them off against each other or next to each other,
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working on getting out the blocks together, working on body
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positions, making sure the hips are high enough but they're not
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too high. Also making sure that they are
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able to react to the gun, that their their, their chin isn't
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too tucked, that they're not looking at the finish line when
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they come out the blocks. There's so many different
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things. You need to make sure as part of
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your training that you are doing block work when once we're in
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season. I tried to probably do blocks
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about twice a week, once once we're in season.
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And and it varies throughout the course of the year what the fall
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looks like. But yeah, blocks is very
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important. I also spoke to you all about
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about pliometric, so let me go back here and just share a
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little bit with you all. When we're talking about the
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block work with this young lady here, her name is Nas.
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She was the bronze medalist at the U20 Championships this this
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past summer. We've done a lot of work on
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blocks trying to make sure that she keeps a low heel carry.
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By a low heel carry. What I mean is if you see that
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her heel, our goal is not for her heels to come up anywhere
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near her butt in those first few steps, but to pull her heel
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straight forward or her toe straight forward out of the
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blocks without lifting up and kicking her butt and pull that
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second foot through. And that's something we've spent
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a lot of work on. It's important.
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I'm not a, I'm not a coach who believes in the toe drag.
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I don't believe in toe dragging. If that's what you do, you do,
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that's your thing. But but what I try to do is
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really keep a low heel recovery, pulling that foot as low as I
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can to the ground so we can drive and get ourselves moving
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forward early on in the race. And so block work is always
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important, plyometric work. I spoke about that box jumps,
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hurdle hops, and you can do lunge.
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You can do not want, well, you can do lunge jumps, you can do
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straight leg bounds, Sam hops. There's all kinds of different
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plyometric exercises that you can utilize to strengthen
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certain parts of the lower extremities of the body and make
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sure that the athletes are explosive.
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Sled pushes and pulls. Those are other things that we
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consistently do to make sure that we can get that power
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moving down the track or that we can make sure that we can get
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something moving and push it forward.
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OK. And overspeed training, so we
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use bungies. There are other different,
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different mechanisms. There are some electronic ones
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don't have the money for that at this moment, but it's called a
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1080 Sprint where they'll hook you up to the front of that
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thing and you can set how fast you want it to go and it will
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pull the athlete faster than they can typically go.
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You can use that same machine to basically to simulate a sled as
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well a sled pool. So we utilize that some more
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resistance work we do as hills, we do stadiums.
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And so when I say hills, I have I have steep hills, I have long
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slower hills as well and I use them both.
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We do stadiums at the stadiums. We may do hops, we may do
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straight Sprint UPS, we may do every other step.
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We do drill such as as forgot what they're called.
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I, I, it's, it's basically simulates your start, your block
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start. So we have to be in a position
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where we're down and we're driving up.
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So it's just like driving out the blocks.
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We'll do those as well as making sure that your athletes are
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doing some speed endurance and so speed endurance work.
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And then so continuing on with some of the training, we also
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utilize what's called wickets. Wickets are little baby hurdles.
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We use 6 inch wickets for some of our our drills and some of
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our work. And with those 6 inch hurdles,
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what we'll do is we'll have our athletes have a 20m.
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We start out with 10 meters at the beginning of the season, but
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we'll have our athletes get into a 20m run in.
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And is this helps to work on establishing and maintaining
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good technique and bio mechanics as we're running through and
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down the track so that your athletes can hold that upright.
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Good technique, making sure they're getting the knees up,
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they're putting force down into the ground as they're running
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down the track. The weight room is very
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important. We do a lot of technical runs as
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well and those going to be slow, slower than obviously race pace
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and Med ball circuits are other exercises that we do.
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So you can see here with this young lady named Monse, she's
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from Mexico. She's got a 20m run in and then
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I actually put ended up putting just some disc down for her 1st
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10 meters within the wicked cycle.
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And so she's able to slowly transition to getting in her her
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knees up and not feel like she has to make it.
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So that's a little bit of what we do with our wicked work.
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That is all I've got on that specific topic.
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We are right at the 30 minutes for that one.
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So I guess now we're going to get ready to open it up for some
28:02
questions on the topics of of finding and developing
28:09
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