My daughter is 17 years old and has just began her first ever season of track and field. She competed in recreational soccer and did …
A Reflexive Performance Reset (RPR) Success Story
By Rob Assise, Homewood-Flossmoor High School It has been two years since I have been exposed to RPR (click if you are not familiar), and it has …
An 800m training epiphany
Derek DeBarr coaches at Pleasant Plains High School. Follow the team on twitter at @plainstrackxc. In college, I somehow managed to scavenge and obtain a …
Speed/Strength Correlation — Debunking the Misnomers
by Mike Adamson Plainfield East Boys Head Track coach I do not write much but felt compelled to write this for 2 reasons; This past …
Ask an Expert: Tony Holler – Post Collegiate Training
Hi, I have read pretty much all of your articles and wanted to know if you would recommend your sprint program setup for a post …
Relay Runs – A New Drill For 4x100m Handoffs
Often in sports, we try to teach too many things at the same time. We don’t necessarily need to spend an entire day teaching our …
Ask an Expert: Can the meet timing and team points be structured differently to better recognize the 1600/3200 athletes?
Recent Conference meet experience: 2 sprint and middle distance runners from one team accounted for 116 team points running 100/200/4×100/4×200 and 400/4×400/4×800 respectively. The second …
Best time of day for lifting sprint/distance
What are the approaches as far as the best time to lift during the season for sprinters and mid-distance athletes? The above post is from …
