At the BSMPG conference a question was how effective corrective exercise was in a college setting during a break. Due to NCAA rules we can only see the athlete so much each week and after some "assessments" the laundry list was nearly 70 minutes of corrective exercises, activation work, remedial training, and mobility exercises. Alan argued that this may be a problem because soft tissue is not j [...]

In the second part of the mediacasts I will share the raw observations of my visits and observations of the major players in the sprint world here in the United States and Canada. While I could not get everyone on this list that is worthy of mention, I must share what I feel were major influences in what I believe in. John Smith, Charlie Francis, Dan Pfaff (Austin, Montreal), and the LSU past and [...]

For a limited time this month I am offering a DVD set with Tom Tellez, Dan Pfaff, and Boo Schexnayder. Tellez - Methods to Improve Sprint Starts and Sprint/Hurdle Mechanics (2 DVD set) Over 2 hrs of lecture, demonstration and video analysis by the master.Pfaff - Technical Problem Solving - 80 min lecture on how to detect and solve technical errors... covers a myriad of overlooked topics.Pfaff [...]

Okay... the other day I hinted at something special.. here it is!I am offering a 5 DVD set of lectures by Dan Pfaff and Boo Schexnayder. Dan Pfaff - Training Design, Injuries, and Plan B (two disc set)Dan Pfaff - 200m and Up Sprint TrainingBoo Schexnayder - Planning Microcycles (part I)Boo Schexnayder - Traning Design/Speed & Power Development (Part II)I am offering this set for a limited time fo [...]

I can't say enough good things about the USATF schools. I am one third the way into my career and I learn something every day from guys like Randy Gillon and Kebba Tolbert. Other great minds are also teaching at the USATF schools and it's awesome to learn so much from not only the instructors but fellow coaches. The Level III school from Las Vegas was a true brain blast that inspired me to keep [...]

As time went on, we found different supplements to be more valuable than steroids....We found that using the whole complex of vitamin B could help add 3–4 meters to a throw. -Anatoly Bondarchuk No matter how glamorous something seems to be we must look at the context of the results. For example Bondarchuk has been used as an example of superior techniques but when we look more clearly at th [...]

Every training method one has should have an origin. Every technique I have that I share with the other coaches that I work with is explained first with history. What I mean is that I share who and where I got the idea, method, and exercise from in order to understand my interpretation of the information. I also explained what worked and what didn't work well for me. Often, like the olympic lifts [...]

Due to the requests on the forum, here's the entire lecture of the snippet I posted earlier from Dan Pfaff's horizontal jumps talk in Las Vegas. Special thanks to Tom Kaberna for sending me a non High-Def version of this video that was small enough that I could actually upload the entire thing for viewing. [...]

Here's another video from Coach Pfaff. This one's another from the HPC ELITETRACK Gold Medal Track Clinic. It's about training elite pole vaulters. Although Dan is known more for his sprint coaching pupils, he has also coached plenty of elite pole vaulters, most recently coaching Brad Walker to an American Record last year. One of the things that sets Dan apart from some of his fellow pole vaul [...]

I hope everyone had a great Christmas. To help fight off post-Christmas depression, here's my last Pfaff lecture snippet from the USATF National Podium Project. (at least until I get back from visiting my family in NY that is). As with the other lectures, you'll find that although this one was given to throwers much of the talk actually remains the same and is generalizable to a wide range of ev [...]