I did the program practically verbatim from the book ~4 years ago. It has been discussed thoroughly on this site and was discussed over on Barry’s site years ago before Barry had the thread deleted. Go read the threads. The program is simply not suitable or adequate for somebody who needs more fitness and speed work, but already has acceptable strength levels. His training is targeted towards getting high school girls to lift weights. Look at his buddy CogitoErgoZoom, who coaches high school track in Illinois, and frequently gets crapped on by all of the other schools in the area. If the program was special, the results would show and they don’t.
The problem with the program is that there were no longer adequate volumes of training within his program at all and nearly 0 low intensity training. I was unfit, didn’t do enough acceleration work (in spite of him saying I did too much with a whopping 3 or so sessions over a 10 week period), and my LEGS were not any stronger and likely much weaker (classical deadlift is far more back than it is legs). The program on its own is only slightly better than somebody doing machine circuits, possibly worse than just doing machine circuits for many. I went from doing a basic classical strength program @ lower intensities and using the back squat and having 2-3 meets a week (>1000m of quality SE/wk) to having tiny lifting volumes @ stupid intensities and having less than half the amount of speed work. The problem was the program, not the deadlift, though the deadlift was part of a shitty program, making an already questionable lift for sprinters even worse.
Linas, until Barry PRODUCES (not attach name to an already successful HS athlete who barely knows the guy) a male sprinter, he’ll be left in the joke category. Even among HS sprinters, he frequently tries to attach his name to them under suspicious conditions and circumstances. The Felix family has tried to distance themselves from that joker numerous times as it is because of his inappropriate attribution to her results. Remember that Allyson did not do the deadlift protocol as he describes it until her SENIOR YEAR and she discontinued it after multiple back injuries that hampered her during the season. 100% of her sprint training was also handled by a different coach not affiliated with Barry.