German Engineered

    Posted In: Blog Discussion

        • Participant
          Carl Valle on October 18, 2008 at 3:33 am #14940

          After Beijing one of my athletes came to a crossroads with his career. Hector Cotto represents Puerto Rico and competes in the 110m hurdles. Currently our goal is to final at the 2009 World championships. Making the Olympics was step one and we did that given a situation that was less than ideal. This year our goal is to make the final and run 13.25-13.34 given the right conditions and if we can r

          Continue reading…

        • Participant
          BLogaN on October 18, 2008 at 5:27 am #73483

          Looking forward to reading the journal!

        • Participant
          Dave Hegland on October 20, 2008 at 2:18 pm #73537

          Carl,

          Any specifics on why the training situation was less than ideal? Coaching via correspondence? Look forward to reading the journal.

        • Participant
          Carl Valle on October 21, 2008 at 1:04 am #73549

          No Fall as we started in January. We had poor hours of use (8pm -10pm so lifting had to be scheduled on weekends). No budget for therapy.

          CV

        • Participant
          Dave Hegland on October 21, 2008 at 1:37 am #73550

          Carl,

          Computer won’t let me post response to your summation of forces blog, so I’ll do it here.
          Any insight into your thoughts re: weight of the medball or implement? My male sprinters/hurdlers are currently using heavy balls (12-17 lbs) from static start positions on acceleration days and lighter balls (8-10 lbs) with a counter-movement on max velocity days, in an attempt to make training complementary. How about progression through the year? Percentage of throws from various start positions at various points of macrocycle?

        • Participant
          Carl Valle on October 21, 2008 at 4:27 am #73552

          Carl,

          Computer won’t let me post response to your summation of forces blog, so I’ll do it here.
          Any insight into your thoughts re: weight of the medball or implement? My male sprinters/hurdlers are currently using heavy balls (12-17 lbs) from static start positions on acceleration days and lighter balls (8-10 lbs) with a counter-movement on max velocity days, in an attempt to make training complementary. How about progression through the year? Percentage of throws from various start positions at various points of macrocycle?

          What movement? Push chest pass throws with an run off works for acceleration days and counter movement stuff with low drop distances seem to do well. I like to train the phase in advance with the lifting and medball things so that when I get into the phase they have some preparedness for the training theme. Example hip snatches work great for max speed.

          Medball tosses and training load is enforcing a faster finish than when started.

    Viewing 5 reply threads
    • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.