Is what you are doing making your athletes better or is it just making them tired and predisposing them to injury? I have asked this question numerous times in this…
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In my 44 years of coaching I have gone back and forth in regard to specificity. At times I have tried to make training as specific as possible going to…
Simulation and specificity are two concepts that can easily be confused with one another. Simulation is the act of performing an event in it’s entirety or a segment of the…
There is another consideration in the distribution of general versus specific work that is the training age of the athlete. At younger training ages, particularly in the first three to…
Jay Johnson asked me to comment on balancing specificity and generality in training. Jay is a middle distance and distance coach, but I will broaden this to include all events…