John Smith’s Sprint Training

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          Mike Young on January 7, 2010 at 8:18 am #16443

          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

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          gaspar on January 7, 2010 at 9:28 am #93297

          The runs must be quite quick, do you remember the speed of the runs? 🙂 I would assume like 85-90-95% maybe, for me it would make sense then 🙂

          The numbers look so mathematical ordered, especially the last 4, but it seems good 🙂

          Each and every bullet is one training session? (ok, plus some other non-running exercises obviously)

          But yeah, good notes, I’m glad that you shared them. I would break the 100 m basically to the same parts and it makes sense 🙂

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          ex400 on January 7, 2010 at 9:34 am #93299

          Were all these workouts designed solely for 100 runners?

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          Gabe Sanders on January 7, 2010 at 9:54 am #93300

          The Phases in action, starting at 2:45

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          W.E. Price on January 7, 2010 at 10:53 am #93305

          Inventory appears to include many sessions from the early HSI ensemble and some I recall from his prior work with Everett, Thomas, Marsh, Watts, et al.

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          Chad Williams on January 7, 2010 at 1:11 pm #93320

          I like John Smith. He is a little bit of old school mixed in with a tremendous amount of knowledge. I heard him speak a few weeks ago and he has a commanding presence, very intimidating (at least in my eyes haha). He talked mainly getting the athlete to feel positions and know where they need tobe in order to sprint optimally.

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          gaspar on January 7, 2010 at 10:14 pm #93340

          I like the trainers, who are explaining the right feelings in the positions, where the athlete must be to execute the optimal biomechanical movements for their event. For me, that’s the main thing, that a trainer should now how to do.

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          eroszag on January 7, 2010 at 11:56 pm #93341

          Mike, the sprints with 20m fly in–are the 60m executed with 20m fly in..or it is a different rep in the w.o.?

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          utfootball4 on January 9, 2010 at 4:46 am #93392

          Mike, the sprints with 20m fly in–are the 60m executed with 20m fly in..or it is a different rep in the w.o.?

          60m with a 20m acc zone.

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          eroszag on January 9, 2010 at 1:49 pm #93429

          Supposed to be quite fast….and about relaxation..could an idea to perform split runs like that.

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          Kebba Tolbert on January 9, 2010 at 5:51 pm #93437

          Mike is there any way to post the notes that I sent you the other day from the USATF John Smith lecture?

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          sjm136 on January 10, 2010 at 2:33 am #93439

          Here’s the powerpoints from a couple years ago:
          https://www.usatf.org/groups/Coaches/library/2007/Sprint Training/3HSI.pdf

          https://www.usatf.org/groups/Coaches/library/2007/Sprint Training/2-400mRACE.pdf

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          Kebba Tolbert on January 10, 2010 at 8:27 am #93449

          you can access the 1999 USATF notes that I took from his lecture here:

          https://tinyurl.com/yz7w9bo

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          Chad Williams on January 10, 2010 at 9:09 am #93453

          you can access the 1999 USATF notes that I took from his lecture here:

          https://tinyurl.com/yz7w9bo

          Good stuff. Thanks for sharing Kebba.

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          eroszag on January 12, 2010 at 2:16 am #93531

          The best material so far probably cam fro old Ato Boldon’s training logs…especially about contructing the training week and mesocycle.

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          Mike Young on January 15, 2010 at 5:29 pm #93741

          Here’s Kebba’s notes from 1999 just in case the previous link is not persistent.

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          burkhalter on January 16, 2010 at 2:33 am #93750

          The best material so far probably cam fro old Ato Boldon’s training logs…especially about contructing the training week and mesocycle.

          I have that log saved if anyone is interested.

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          JeremyRichmond on January 16, 2010 at 8:38 am #93764

          [quote author="eroszag" date="1263242824"]The best material so far probably cam fro old Ato Boldon’s training logs…especially about contructing the training week and mesocycle.

          I have that log saved if anyone is interested.[/quote]

          I’m interested thanks. Can it be sent via PM?

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          Vince Collantes on January 16, 2010 at 9:16 am #93766

          I’m interested too, if PM doesn’t work I can give you my gmail account. Thanks

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          Snoof on January 16, 2010 at 9:22 am #93767

          I’m interested as well. Thanks

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          burkhalter on January 16, 2010 at 9:31 am #93769

          Shoot me a PM with your email address.

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          davan on January 16, 2010 at 10:35 am #93773

          The Ato log isn’t that reliable (numerous weeks of training missing and lots of incomplete information). Some people that have seen some of the HSI training sessions from the time period even said that some of it appeared to be misinformation (not congruent with what they had seen). Just keep that in mind.

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          Miele-Scott on January 16, 2010 at 10:44 am #93774

          i would like too see this also

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          burkhalter on January 16, 2010 at 3:31 pm #93788

          The Ato log isn’t that reliable (numerous weeks of training missing and lots of incomplete information). Some people that have seen some of the HSI training sessions from the time period even said that some of it appeared to be misinformation (not congruent with what they had seen). Just keep that in mind.

          Yeah it may have some misinfo in it. Someone told me that John Smith made him take it down though so perhaps there’s some real info in it. I haven’t read it in years but I have some other notes somewhere to compare to it.
          I think there are two weeks missing from it while he shot commercials.

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          JeremyRichmond on January 16, 2010 at 5:26 pm #93791

          [quote author="davan" date="1263618325"]The Ato log isn’t that reliable (numerous weeks of training missing and lots of incomplete information). Some people that have seen some of the HSI training sessions from the time period even said that some of it appeared to be misinformation (not congruent with what they had seen). Just keep that in mind.

          Yeah it may have some misinfo in it. Someone told me that John Smith made him take it down though so perhaps there’s some real info in it. I haven’t read it in years but I have some other notes somewhere to compare to it.
          I think there are two weeks missing from it while he shot commercials.[/quote]

          Thanks for the word of caution. I’ll take that into account when deciphering the information contained.

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          Irish100m on May 31, 2010 at 5:31 am #98720

          The Phases in action, starting at 2:45

          [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-yyHi8weHk[/youtube]

          Does anyone have a video of the whole documentary?

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          Irish100m on November 1, 2011 at 1:49 am #111901

          Could you please email me Ato’s log?

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          Craig Pickering on November 1, 2011 at 3:16 am #111906

          I wouldnt mind having a look too!

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          the_chosen_one on November 1, 2011 at 3:57 am #111909

          Ditto!

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          COV-GOD on November 1, 2011 at 4:25 am #111887

          He’ll if it’s still available shoot me a copy please 🙂

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