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 [...]

Stumbled on this picture today while searching the internet for something in preparation for my talks this week. This is Kip Kieno and I think Peka Vasala from the early 70's, may actually have been 72 Olympic games. Regardless this picture speaks a thousand words. You don't get this from doing drills, you get this from running fast!Look at this from the PAL Paradigm.P = PostureA = Arm ActionL = [...]

Last year I read Malcolm Gladwell's excellent book Outliers. In it he talks about success and some of our (mis) conceptions. At one point he talks about IQ and says, "Over the years, an enormous amount of research has been done in an attempt to demonstrate how a performance on an IQ test... translates to real life success." He then goes on to explain some scoring ranges (e.g., people below 70 a [...]

I recently put together a DVD for a clinic presentation - it was well received and I am offering it here for $30. The DVD has over 90 mins of video with members our training group doing Acceleration Development/Blocks Starts, various hurdle mobility routines, general strength routines, warm-up routines and sprint drills, special sprint tech, various multi-jump routines. Included are Olympic and Wo [...]

A while back I remember discussing injury and a fellow coach insisting for the move from injury to opportunity. At the time he meant the opportunity to do great rehab, overcome, and set personal records. While covering the proper bases to rehabilitate the injury is priority number one, injury provides some other opportunities that wouldn’t exist in the course of a normal season or training. D [...]

For those liking my old article "Building Speed Demons" you will love my Pierre-Jean Notes, it is my best work to date. This is a collection of the best information I have picked up from PJ as he is a great resource. I had the luxury of picking his brain and my questions were answered in full. I will be sending out paypal requests to the emails I have and will be sending out the CDs to Black Sta [...]

A guilty pleasure of mine is Pierre-Jean, a great resource to my understanding the context of performance. I will be including my notes on his presentation with the Henk Kraaijenhof video. His information shared in messageboards and his 2008 presentation in Sundsvall was outstanding, given his first language is French. After a few months that lead to over a year, I have finally been able to final [...]

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 is a follow-up to my post last week with the statements that is it is relatively easy to get strong and it is easy to get slow. There were some good responses that basically mirrored what I am going to say. It is easy to get strong if that is your goal. By strong I mean measurably strong in the traditional sense of weight room strong. A dedicated block of eight to twelve weeks can result in a [...]

Carl,Had a question for you. I hear all these gurus talking about activating the glutes prior to exercise or turn the glutes on or get them firing is the usual response given for these drills. Are the glutes ever “turned off”?? will they not fire under load (i.e sprinting, squatting, etc.) or is it more of a timing issue like Al Vermeil talks about with Comerfords stuff and the TA-Transverse [...]