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Introduce Yourself / Re: Its me
« on: June 02, 2009, 05:36:51 pm »Thanks! Im very proud of those kids.
As for my college career, I walked onto the team as a 41' triple jumper. Nothing special by any means. I progressively got worse until I tore my hamstring mid freshman year. My first meet back after taking two months off, I PRed to 43'. That's how overtrained I was. Spent the next two years never reaching that mark again. In that time I was plagued with injuries including shin splints, pulled hop flexor, and torn cartilage in both knees. Going into Sr year I was restriced from the traditonal preseason of running stairs for an hour. We also got a jumps coach who focused on quality over quantity. I improved to 45' after spending 2 years not cracking 43' again. Unofficially I jumped 46' in practice. I was strong, had great technique but was slow as sin.
The coach had no idea how to manage the needs of specific events. Preseason was spent running/bounding stairs from 30-60mins nonstop. That was 8 weeks of aerobic development. I can't remember one workout that included more than 45s recovery, most had a jog as recovery.
Secondly, volume was WAY too high. He was proudest of a workout that was 16x200m on an indoor track. Goal time was 32-35s with 1-1:30 rest. A midseason workout once was 3x8x80m all out sprints with a walk back and 5 mins recovery.
Nothing was ever timed or measured so there was no concept of a drop off. We ran till we dropped.
Finally there was no real speed work up until the week of league championships. At that point we would do a workout along the lines of a flying 30 with a 200m walk recovery. So speed was never developed..it was only introduced at the end. That was their idea of peaking.
In that time I saw a lot of good athletes get worse while a very small handfull improved. And the only ones that really improved were the multi-event athletes who were predisposed to have a higher work capacity. Most other people didnt even beat their HS marks until Sr year. Some never even came close.
man that sucks..
i've seen it plenty.. i really don't understand it at all though.. the addiction to quantity over quality when it comes to power sports. Every athlete I trained at MSC had coaches addicted to aerobic work.. they turned every sprint session into an aerobic workout.. kids would come to me completely drained.. one summer we helped a baseball team achieve some great results in their sprinting, and within one month of this team ceasing to utilize our program, all of their sprinting became even worse than the pre-testing, due to endless "spinning classes" & frequent mile runs.. every single person got slower when we re-tested them after their pre-season training.
peace man
