This weekend I had the chance to speak with Coach Loren Seagrave on his thoughts about absolute strength. Loren is a former LSU sprint coach, founder of Velocity Sport Performance and coach of some of the fastest individuals in the world. I've had the privilege of doing at least one speaking engagement with Loren each month for the past couple months and I've been able to pick his brain on topic [...]

Henk Kraaijenhof, P.T., B.A. is a performance consultant to international elite athletes in athletics, speed-skating, volleyball, bobsleigh, triathlon, fencing, archery, swimming, tennis, handball and soccer. He has coached individuals and teams to national success in Olympic and world level competition including sprinters Nelli Cooman, Merlene Ottey and Troy Douglas. He is currently technical dir [...]

"Contrary to what the sprinting gurus tell you, horizontal force development is the most important component to sprinting speed. I cannot even believe that some gurus who I look up too can actually believe that vertical force development is the most important component to sprinting speed. I’ll completely dispel this misconception in a future article and book, but for now just start trying them [...]

I stumbled on an old piece of what looked like scrap paper yesterday. The thing had been in my 'to do' box at my home office for some time. Lo and behold it's some notes I took from a John Smith coaching talk from a recent (2007?) Elite Sprint Development Seminar. John Smith has coached Mo Greene, Ato Boldon, and more recently Carmelita Jeter. Since there isn't a ton of info available about wh [...]

This Christmas, like many men across the globe, I received some new razor blades in my stocking. These are always a welcome gift because I generally prefer to use a blade over my electric razor. My razor of choice has 5 blades. I've been using this kind for the past 18 months or so. Before that I used a blade by the same company that had only 4 blades. At the time this was the latest and greatest [...]

Why are people not creating a buzz with Japanese training? You would think the hype would be huge as the 4x100m went 38.03 and that is faster than the Soviet record. With wins in swimming and other sports such as wrestling, cycling, and gymnastics why do they get shafted? It doesn't matter but I think we need to embrace everyone's methods and not gravitate to the Yuri lemmings. Right now I am co [...]

Why is finding actual video of speed guys lifting good numbers like finding bigfoot? Surely if people can post pictures and videos of themselves drunk, they can post a photo or video squatting 400+. I have been keeping my eyes open on this for years with no result. All I see is Mike Conley 1/8 squatting 405, Staffan Strand squatting 185, still photos of Kajsa with a bar on her shoulders that lo [...]

Please note the posture at 50m with Jeter. I am not sure what John has done in training but she is striking with great position of her hips. The pelvic position of Shelly-Ann Fraser will limit her after she becomes upright. The key is to accelerate with more quad stiffness and perhaps we will see sub 10.6 soon. [...]

I am absolutely awestruck by Bolt's performance. It is really hard to find words to describe what we just witnessed. The fact that his two 100 meter world records came in the finals of the Olympic Games and the World Championship, by itself is amazing. He beat the best. I am trying to put it in a historical context and imagine where all the past great sprinters in history would have finished. The [...]

Matt Gardner used a typical 3 day speed/power Split 8 x 80y grass sprints (Float-Sprint), skips for distance, 150 contacts ( 8x8 of 36 inches), 10 x 2 at 1.3 BW Cleans, Squats 4 x 4 @ 425. When we did this set up we often planned his soft tissue regeneration first and created the program around his massages and joint restoration sessions. Pool workouts were stacked on his tempo days. Since Matt a [...]