Sprint Training — conditioning

Here we go over an acceleration sprinting workout, as well as discuss the concept of increasing the stimulus of your training sessions over time in an effort to stabilize movement skills under increasing amounts of stress. Sprint Straight To Sprint Fast One issue that I commonly see in my own sprinting and that of other athletes is that, as an athlete begins their sprint, they may have a tendency to deviate from a straight path of sprinting. If we leave the blocks and go to the right or to the left instead of sprinting directly toward the finish line, we...

Sprinting Workouts Sometimes it can be a challenge to decide which sprinting workouts you should perform. As 100m dash sprinters, we need to be competent with acceleration, maximal velocity sprinting, and speed endurance, all while staying strong and fit throughout the season. In this video, we go over a full sprinting workout as well as some ideas for how to best decide which workout is best for you. The 10 Day Training Cycle Approach One simple way to decide which sprint training workout you should do, is to first line out your top 3 training priorities. From there, set up...

Plyometric and jump training is common in the training of many athletes. Coaches for decades have found benefits in utilizing different types of jump training in their development of sprinters, jumpers, team sport athletes, etc. While it is certainly true that athletes can benefit from jump training of all sorts, I personally feel that there is a tendency to add more advanced forms of jump training into sprint training programs before athletes have mastered basic hopping and jumping exercises. This may work for many, but rudiment hops give us a good balance of risk versus reward compared to more complex...