Elitetrack: Sport Training & Conditioning

There's so much good stuff to write about with this year's Olympics I'm going to do a couple series and keep writing as the Olympics go on. The 100m is one event that I'd really like to take a closer look at. If you didn't know, the results are in and a new person has claimed the title of "World's Fastest Human." Since the TV broadcast isn't on until tonight and I know some people don't [...]

This is the time of year when championships are won and lost before a game or match is ever played. This is the infamous “pre-season” training period where teams will practice twice even three times a day to get ready for the season starting in late August. I maintain that more games and matches are lost during this period because coaches overwork their athletes during this period. It is too l [...]

One of the athletes on my club team has just made the news. An article about HPC Elite Team member, Lamont Dagen is on the front page news of his hometown newspaper today. Checkout "Putting his best foot forward Kenosha Man eyes Olympics" about Lamont and his quest to make the Olympic team. To support Lamont as he pushes on to the Olympic Trials and beyond please consider donating to his Olympic [...]

I have had several people ask me why baseball does not change. The comments were something like this – After all those are multi-million dollar players, don’t they want them to get better? The answer is simple and it transcends baseball. In order to change you must want to change. Then you must make a sincere and total commitment to change. You have to wipe the slate clean and start an [...]

Here's an ineteresting article I found in the Seattle Times from Blaine Newnham: When Jim Ryun first broke the world record in the mile in 1966,Walter Cronkite interrupted his nightly network show to share the news.Later that year, at age 19, Ryun was on the cover of Sports Illustrated as the magazine's Sportsman of the Year.When Alan Webb finally broke Steve Scott's 25-year-old A [...]