Here's some interesting thoughts from former sprint prodigy-turned Balco bustee-turned returning prodigal son Dwain Chambers:When I came back from my suspension in 2006 I went to train in Jamaica and I never got tested once and I was there for six months. You would think that someone coming off a drug ban would be routinely tested but I wasn't tested once. You need to test athletes in October, N [...]

"This is a difficult question to answer in this format for what folks mean by intensive, extensive and low intensity work varies. I have seen very consistent results from programs that do intensive and extensive work as classically described. I do things that I consider to hit both realms albeit not purely classical in design. For example, we do a lot of 100m "up-backs" in the early training ph [...]

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 [...]

In 1960, Johnson arrived from Bakersfield Junior College to set world records for legendary Coach Bud Winter. The coach was just developing his renowned program at SJSU when Johnson arrived. By 1968, Winter had produced Olympic stars Tommie Smith, John Carlos and Lee Evans. In all, he coached 37 world-record holders and 27 Olympians.Johnson's two years in San Jose would stay with him. He returned [...]

The Jamaicans lit up the track world in 2008, taking home more medals in the sprinting events than any other country and doing so in commanding fashion. Despite this, the training methods of the top Jamaican coaches is not widely known or understood. Are they achieving their success based on pure talent, performance enhancing drugs, a special diet, running on grass, or all of the above. We don't [...]