Today a great coach has left us. "As an athlete, Francis was Canadian 100 metres sprint champion in 1970, 1971, and 1973. He reached the second round of the Munich Olympics in 1972 with times of 10.51 and 10.68. His personal best was 10.1 at the Pan Am trials in Vancouver in 1971. Francis died Wednesday May 12, 2010 at Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital after a five-year battle with cancer, according [...]

Relative strength- is it really that magical for vertical jump and acceleration. When tested for correlation, it doesnt always correlate that the strongest pound for pound jump the highest and accelerate 10-20 yards the fastest. But to get an individual better, it seems that in the real world, getting someone stronger for their bw is the best way to improve standing vert and accel ability. In othe [...]

Yesterday I posted a couple videos with some insight in to what MVP club coach Stephen Francis is doing with his athletes. The discussion on this blog entry got me off my butt to write another blog that I've been meaning to write for some time – The Reasons Why Jamaicans Dominate the Sprints. In case you were in a cocoon in 2008, you witnessed one of the greatest sprint years by a single count [...]

I would like to thank the emails I get from members wanting to get the myths of sports performance dispelled. Lately, the garbage coming from coaches sharing what they are doing with athletes or rewriting history is bad for sports and this industry so here goes.I hear that bobsleigh athletes are freaks. They out sprint the sprinters, out lift the lifters, and are leaner and bigger than linebackers [...]

This article resonated with me. I was especially interested in the comments of Andy Higgins and Doug Clement, two coaches that I really respect. I think this article summarizes the all the issues in a very succinct and concise manner.Questions continue to surround sprintingBy BEVERLEY SMITH AND JAMES CHRISTIE , From Monday's Globe and MailSeptember 21, 2008Twenty years after Canadian sprinter Be [...]

Tim Montgomery. Once the holder of the most esteemed title in all of sports ("World's Fastest Man") has somehow managed to dig a hole deeper than previously thought imaginable. A teen phenom with prodigious talent, Monte has since:been busted for performance enhancing drugs in what has become the start of the biggest doping scandal since Ben Johnson,been caught in a multi-million dollar check f [...]

Here's an interesting article from Sports Illustrated that recalled the Lewis:Johnson showdown in Seoul almost 10 years ago.... The damn shame is all anyone seems to remember is what happenednext: the disgrace of a positive steroid test, the flight from Seoul,the Dubin Inquiry into drugs in sports, the subsequent comeback and asecond positive test, the match race against a horse. Almost t [...]

In light of the recently posted Youtube video of Carl Lewis, I figured it would only be fair to post this one of his arch-nemesis:    [...]

Since I posted the article about Ben complaining, it's only fair to post this one from today's ESPN News Service:If you think you've heard every excuse for a positive doping test, think again: Discredited sprinter Ben Johnson has told an Australian newspaper that his chief rival, Carl Lewis, was "involved" in a conspiracy to sabotage Johnson's drug testing scandal at the [...]

A funny claim by Ben Johnson in today's Associated Press:MELBOURNE, Australia: Disgraced sprinter Ben Johnson has claimed superstar rival Carl Lewis played a part in a conspiracy to sabotage his drug sample at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, costing him his 100 meters gold medal. Johnson set a world record of 9.79 seconds to win the 100 meters at Seoul but was stripped of his gold medal and world rec [...]