this year i did alot, i broke 11(10.98 recently FAT) from 11.8 last year. But this year instead of doing other sports im focusing on track and gonna work my but off year round, i know i have potential but i have no idea what kinda improvement i'll have, so if you were to guess what would you assume?I'm gonna be workin with a coach instead of training by myself until march and not a highschool coach a knowledgable coach.
How much can I improve?
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anythings possible, theres no way for me to tell.
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Typically in the offseason phases of training one focuses on improving weaknesses, while maintaining strengths. The sub 11s 100m runner takes time and improvements come in the form of 1/100ths of a sec especially after a big jump of almost a second. So assess your strengths and weaknesses and tell us (starts, acceleration, max V (peak speed), endurance). Then explain to us your race distribution (How do you run the 100m). Are you relaxed when you run? It is hard to tell without physically watching you train and race, but the more information you give us the better we can help. It is easier putting together workouts for people the farther the distance they run, because we can hope that they improve mechanical flaws (form) by running faster up tempo work. However, with sprinters this is harder without being able to watch. Even then sometimes it requires lots of different angles of viewing and slow motion video gait analysis, because with sprinting it is the technical aspects that spur on greater improvements. Just today I noticed that my 2 slower runners that I train in a group of 3 have to much going on with backside mechanics that I had not observed before. The more information you give, the better feedback we can provide.
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Yeah, once you get under 11, those tenths get a lot harder to come by.
amazingly at my school they said the same thing about getting under 12 but i know what your saying and the worst parts of my race are my last 40m and as i recently found out my first 35 and the part in the middle is ok but i realized im not hitting top speed because of my first 35m
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amazingly at my school they said the same thing about getting under 12 but i know what your saying and the worst parts of my race are my last 40m and as i recently found out my first 35 and the part in the middle is ok but i realized im not hitting top speed because of my first 35m
yeah, but under 11 its actually true. A lot of people can run 11.4ish with little to no training to problem, and aiding even minimal training can drop them down to the 11 flat range. Past that though, I can't think of anyone who can run under 11 without a fair amount of training, which is why it gets harder.
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The faster you get the more technically proficient you must become.
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