I’ve been lucky enough to work with a few state track & field champions in the great state of Ohio. A lot of the theories behind our speed development program for all athletes is what we have done with these state track champions. Think about it. If we put a track athlete through a program, [...]
After watching the track and field Olympic trials, I’ve come to the conclusion that distance runners need to implement sprint training into their workouts. I saw more distance races at the trials that came down to sprinting. And if your distant runner can’t sprint effectively, you better hope he/she has built up a big lead [...]
I had an unbelievable year coaching our boys and girls track teams at Bishop Watterson. We broke a bunch of school records and our girls placed higher than any other girls team at the state meet in school history. Just at the state meet for the girls alone we did the following: Placed third as [...]
Running— you’ve thought about it, maybe even tried it and then decided it’s not for you. But, for some reason, you keep coming back around to it. Maybe it’s because of the extraordinary health benefits like immediate and long-term weight loss, reduced risk of cancer and heart disease or adding years to your lifespan. It’s [...]
Being from Columbus, Ohio, I like to follow local athletes as they leave our city and monitor their athletic progress. One of those athletes is former Dublin Coffman track star, Abby Steiner, who is now a junior track athlete at the University of Kentucky. This past weekend, she won the NCAA Indoor Championships 200M title. [...]
We have been doing podcasts for the members of our private Inner Circle Facebook group. Just extra tidbits that they have been enjoying. If you are interested in joining to gain access to them, click here. A recent podcast was with one of my favorite former athletes, Aziza Ayoub. Aziza is a senior running for [...]
During my off-season, I’ve been able to pick the brains of several college coaches about their training methods and tactics. Sometimes, what they share with me can be applicable to high school athletes and younger. Other times it can not. One sprint coach I was talking to shared his thoughts on in-season training. This one [...]
I am a firm believer that speed can be improved. Anyone looking to improve speed, if you can get them stronger I feel you got a great shot to getting them faster. Yes, it is a little more complex than just getting them stronger. There certainly are some strategies involved with that. But, typically if [...]
This may be a whacky idea, but I’ve been thinking about this idea for club sports for a while. Maybe it is more specifically for club track or individualized sports, but what about a virtual coach or club for your travel sports? Let’s take my sport, track, for example because I’m not quite sure this [...]
The block start in track can be one of the most difficult things to master. It takes many, many practices to understand how to explode out of the blocks and use it to your advantage. I’ve had some athletes that just can’t pick it up. We end up just having them stand as opposed to [...]