Anisoara Cusmir (Female LJ’er)

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        • Participant
          Nick Newman on September 19, 2008 at 1:22 pm #14867

          I spent a few hours today in a library near to where i live researching for a project i am doing. I came across many interesting articles written over the last 30 years or so. One of them however, stood out far above the others. This article had some very incredible details inside, and some of them i will share with you now…

          It was an extremely detailed article on the life and training of FEMALE long jumper Anisoara Cusmir- Stancia from Romania during the early 80’s. Her personal best and then world record was 7.43m. She only had jumped a world record of 6.94m indoors…

          Quick facts stated in this article which amazed me were;

          1 – her standing long jump PR – 3.71m (3.52m, 3.41m also)
          2 – her standing triple jump PR – 9.81m
          3 – 60m sprint from high start – 6.67 electronic

          If these don’t amaze you enough wait until you see her training loads. I won’t write the entire thing on here, but it is CRAZY!!!! Everyday was full of jumping, sprinting and more jumping…Of all kinds, plyos, multi jumps, short approach jumps, bounding, hopping etc…im talking 5 days a week of this…to put it into perspective, this is what she did the DAY BEFORE she set her indoor world record of 6.94m;

          20-30 min special warm up
          3x standing long jump
          3+3 full run ups (timed)
          8x full approach jumps (unmeasured)
          6×12 step jumps (best= 6.23m)
          6×6 step jumps (best= 5.63m)
          8×4 step jumps (best 5.10m)
          4x80m acceleratins (85%)
          10 min warm down

          Again, this was the day before her WR setting competition…

          what does this tell us? Can all this be true? Were drugs the leading factor? are her PR’s for real? what do you guys think…

        • Member
          aivala on September 19, 2008 at 1:52 pm #72482

          That´s utterly bullshit, she would also be the 100m wr holder!! With that standing reach she would also threaten the men´s wr for standing lj.

          Although she may look like this: 😀

        • Participant
          Nick Newman on September 19, 2008 at 1:56 pm #72483

          wait..is that her? i didnt even check …

          and why is it bullshit? apparently it is close to the mens world record…

        • Keymaster
          Mike Young on September 19, 2008 at 2:05 pm #72484

          I actually believe the workout. I’ve seen workouts from that time period for a variety of events and they are similar. Check out the weight workout here[/url] for example. I’ve seen some sprint workouts from the Eastern Bloc with similar volumes. The Chinese women that destroyed the WRs in practically every distance event in the 90s were running more than a marathon a day.

          I think the common denominator is that they typically come from a VERY long term development program, are naturally gifted with big time work capacities, and have extremely enhanced endocrine profiles.

          The thing you don’t here about is all the failures in these types of programs.

          ELITETRACK Founder

        • Keymaster
          Mike Young on September 19, 2008 at 2:07 pm #72485


          ^^^
          Kratochilova- the manliest man I’ve ever seen.

          ELITETRACK Founder

        • Participant
          Nick Newman on September 19, 2008 at 3:12 pm #72487

          So was it hit and miss then for the coaches? i mean, how do you know someone can handle that workload, other than through experience? and if so many athletes self destructed by doing such workouts, obvoiously that experience factor didnt work for them…do you think i could handle that type of workload Mike?

        • Participant
          Daniel Andrews on September 19, 2008 at 3:30 pm #72488

          It was survival of the fittest. Although doping programs enhance recovery.

        • Keymaster
          Mike Young on September 19, 2008 at 3:36 pm #72489

          It was survival of the fittest. Although doping programs enhance recovery.

          This is correct. Basically, you just pump 100s of hand selected highly talented people in to a system knowing full well that 99 won’t make it but the one that does will be amazing.

          I don’t think you could handle that type of workload but it doesn’t mean that’s the only way to get the results.

          ELITETRACK Founder

        • Member
          aivala on September 19, 2008 at 10:28 pm #72490

          But even if the workout was real that 60m pb is unreal. With that kind of speed and jumping habilities she should have jumped way over 7.50m.

        • Participant
          mortac8 on September 19, 2008 at 10:52 pm #72491

          Can you scan that or tell us where the article can be found?

        • Keymaster
          Mike Young on September 20, 2008 at 1:04 am #72492

          But even if the workout was real that 60m pb is unreal. With that kind of speed and jumping habilities she should have jumped way over 7.50m.

          It’s from a stand start though which means they either hand timed it, used a touchpad under one of her feet, or placed gates some short distance in front of her starting position. I’ve run some tests with these various methods myself and they’re worth AT LEAST 0.20 seconds over a touchpad time, and probably 0.4 over a race time with a starter from blocks.

          ELITETRACK Founder

        • Participant
          Nick Newman on September 20, 2008 at 1:53 am #72493

          yeah definitily, it was a great read…and i think you’d all like it alot…it was in a track and field quarterly, back in the 80’s i beleive. I photo copied a bunch yesterday…it doesnt actually say on my photocopy which one, but i will go back today and get it for you…

          i should also state that, the article/ finding were also presented at XIII Congress of the European Athletic Coaches Assosiation in England in 1985.

          The back of the article also has a real cool question and answers section for her coach Ioan Moroiu.

        • Keymaster
          Mike Young on September 20, 2008 at 5:46 am #72496

          If you have the article info (and maybe a scan?) I’ll put it in the article database.

          ELITETRACK Founder

        • Participant
          burkhalter on September 20, 2008 at 6:06 am #72498

          [img]https://www.sporting-heroes.net/files_athletics/KRATOCHVILOVA_1983_GH_L.jpg[/img]
          ^^^
          Kratochilova- the manliest man I’ve ever seen.

          I’d bet my A$$ that is a dude performing the TUCK and DUCT TAPE.

        • Participant
          Nick Newman on September 20, 2008 at 6:42 am #72500

          wow, so i went back to the library today to get the reference for the issue of Track and Field quarterly and that one wasnt there, but all the others i was reading was..typical right…anyway, i will scan the one i photo copied asap so we can put it on the site…

          The one thing about all the info which is nuts to me is her standing long jump. At first, you would say theres no way its right but then with that test you never really know…i have seen a 51 second female 400m jump 2.85m and have also seen a 7.93m male long jumper jump 2.98m. Not much difference right…so who knows, i think that test is a strange one to evaluate.

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