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This is why coaches should put their hand on athletes and good coaches use this trick a lot - putting your hands on someones hipflexors during a march get them to actually fire - I have had athletes that are try to do a straight leg pull back and don't figure out how to use the hamstring to initiate it until I press on it. 

I can see a lot of female HS/college team track coaches abusing this advice lol.

video is priv8!

D'oh! Fixed.

that looks like a pretty good jump.. nice!

Thanks mate!

Yeah intercostals are shitty little muscles that you can't do much for except let them recover. You can probably push them a little bit more than your average strained muscle but be careful.

How much does a wet track affect times or is it insignificant?

Probably not something you could quantify exactly but I remember generally having better 150m times on a hot track in summer as opposed to a wet track in summer. Probably several factors involved: temperature of track, friction, mental effect on athletes (you might slow down a bit on the turn in the 200m for example). Also, if it's wet, it might be colder, windy etc. Hard to separate all the variables. 

 ^ Nice post!

I'm calling it: 19.38

Edit: argh. In my defense i didn't know it was wet until i got to a TV. Happy to see lemaitre sneak in for bronze

Rough couple of weeks since I got back but I've got a few good sessions in.

Got sick of course a couple of days after my last post, nothing too bad but kept me at less than 100% for about a week, couldn't really take time off with how much work I've got backed up, so of course it lingers way longer than it would if I could just sit in bed for a day. Then within the last week or so I got some fairly decent pericoronitis (swelling of the gum around a wisdom tooth), which I've had happen maybe 2-3 times over the last two years. Probably a sign it needs to come out. The top two seem to be clear but the bottom two have always been worrying me as they don't seem to have enough room. I'm a broke-ass student right now after paying for most of the trip (which is OK because it was part holiday) so I need to get into this student teaching clinic...not unusually, dentists are fairly expensive here in Melb. It's just hard to get in to the student place as it's about half-price, so it's always booked up. Teeth suck!

I did have one good track session as written in T0ddday's program (first one) on a clear night when my old sprint group train. Was good to see some of the guys but didn't get a good reception from the coach. He's just a real grumpy bastard now and didn't seem too interested I'd rocked up. I really don't know what his problem is. All good though, I can just do my own thing and get back at a reasonable hour. Not missing the winter off-season work, which has sounded even worse than last year from all accounts.

Coach didn't ask if I'd be running this season and I was glad because I still haven't really decided for sure what I want to do over summer. I really do enjoy racing and I think just following T0ddday's program would get me into a good 100m shape anyway, which is all I'm really interested in running. The only trouble is they've jacked up the prices by about $75 for absolutely nothing extra in terms of meets, in what was already an ordinary program with not enough opportunities to run the 100m (last year there were 5 runs in the normal, with one cancelled due to weather, one extra I had to pay for). They allow you to run unregistered about three times I think for $10, might be much more cost effective.

The other consideration is the basketball team I was playing on is playing over the spring/summer. It would be really good to have a weekly game in which to keep up sport-specific jumping. But then there's all the other reasons why it's not ideal (mostly hacks playing, team is abysmal (even for my current crappy standards), possible aggravation to knee issue). It would be the cheapest option out of the two. My knee definitely feels like it could handle it...don't know.

I could also do the pros again but it's a bigger commitment in terms of travel and it's most likely all rigged anyway. I don't know if I posted this but there was a decent controversy over the Stawell women's gift winner this year running slow all year basically and then improving by about 0.8 of a second over 100m for the final! It happens on the men's side as well. So it's really a bit of a waste of time, money unless I was a lot more competitive and faster.

So while I consider that I'm going to launch back into the weight vest program, been wearing mine when I can (sometimes it's just not practical to wear on lab days but pretty much whenever feasible). I just wish I had T0ddday's nice one, much more discreet looking than mine.

@T0ddday, for the weighted core stuff: it's really impossible to do what we did at USC at either gym as the benches just aren't suitable. What I've been playing with are weighted v-situps with a heavy (9kg+ med ball or plate):



weighted side twists with the same ball, and weighted hanging leg raises with KBs. It feels much more challenging than say 100 elbow-to-knee crunches that I can do fairly easily. I hope that might substitute OK.

Also, for the jumps sessions I'm pretty much just warming up with a few SVJs then doing weighted 1-step jumps like we did at USC courts. That seemed to be the idea moving forward from memory. Over time I can get some more weighted gear to make it more effective.

Quote from: acole14 on August 15, 2016, 08:29:17 am

Quote from: T0ddday on August 15, 2016, 04:20:38 am

Lol I'd argue the opposite.  Lebrons finals performance of leading both teams in every category and coming back from 3-1 might put him in the running for being one of the greatest sportsmen but he will never be close to the greatest athlete because he will never try not be tested as he is a basketball player... 

Lebron certainly is tall, strong, fast, and able to jump high.  From th eye test you can imagine he could make a great football player or track athlete - but as his potential will never be tapped it is pure speculation...

Of course you do! Haha. That's why the forum has been so much fun lately. I personally just can't put LeBron top 5 all-time as a sportsman (yet). That series was his magnum opus no doubt, but it's one series in his career. If GSW are as good as advertised and he beats them again then he's easily in there. But it's so crowded at the top. Jordan, Ali, any one of Pele/Maradona/Messi, Don Bradman (google him, statistically off the charts in a sport played by tens of millions that hasn't changed fundamentally for centuries), any one of Federer/Nadal/Djokovic and now Bolt...all from sports where the barriers to entry are low and are played at least throughout the developed world and some developing regions. Not even mentioning Gretzky or any NFL all-timers whose sport is restricted to certain populations.

Athletically though, sure, speculation between sports is so difficult because of the demands on time for each sport. It's still fun though. I agree that Ashton Eaton is the greatest tested athlete of all time essentially by definition. For me LeBron is a top 5 what-if athlete.

I don't disagree that Lebron might not be a top five sportsman yet... Moreso just that he will never be a top five athlete because he isn't tested...

I've heard of Bradman and he certainly was great.  I'm just averse to having athletes on the list who played before civil rights personally.  Besides that your list is pretty good although I think being a sportsman is not just being good at the game but being transcendent in multiple ways.   That's why any list without the late Muhhamed Ali is a shame!  He is maybe the most important athlete of all time...

I can totally understand the civil rights thing. His career probably would have been different if he played 1970 onward vs 1928-1948. But his statistical dominance relative to his peers at the time is incredible:

http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/the-most-remarkable-graph-in-the-history-of-sport/

not rio specific, but someone shared this on fb, cool story: http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/the-white-man-in-that-photo/

 

Was great to see when you posted that. Ever since I learned about Peter Norman's story I thought he should be on our currency! I think less than 10% of under-30s here in Australia would even know who he was.