Elitetrack: Sport Training & Conditioning

The Wall Street Journal recently published a list of the Top 10 Athletes in the world. I was surprisingly shocked to see that not only did 3 tracksters make the list but the WSJ said that the number one athlete in the world was Roman Sebrle. Joining him was Liu Xiang in 7th and Jeremy Wariner in 8th. I'm not sure I fully agree with their rankings but (I think Sebrle's claim to the number 1 spot [...]

Are you training a one trickponies? What do I mean? Essentially are you putting all your eggs inone basket and emphasizing one component of training method with youathletes. If you are I would urge to [...]

Coaches always tell athletes to listen to their bodies. Do we ever tell them what they should listen for or listen to? What if they don’t hear anything? What if they are deaf? [...]

For the person that wrote in to saythey were proud to be a muscle head, I am glad you are proud to be amuscle head. If you take the muscle head approach I would like to playyour team everyday of the w [...]

When an athlete says they cannot do something that is very final. They can’t do it! When they say they say they won’t do it that implies a choice. They can do it but they have chosen not t [...]