I’ve just come back to my old coach because I’ve either been injured or competing for the past month and this is what we did in the first session. We worked with blocks over 20 meters and later 50.
we are no longer in the 80s charles!
the 100 metres has moved on! this is why the taller sprinters are wiping the short arse sprinters now! because they can use long strides at the beginning of the race and cut there stride at the end. were as short sprinters struggle to get a long stride at the beginning for obvious reasons, they can only achieve this through increased power and technique! ha! ha!
Oh! Are they really! So, of the fastest guys, Mo is tall, Tim is tall, Ben is tall, Ato is tall. Some are six feet (Gatlin, Crawford), some aren’t (see above), but none, REPEAT NONE, use the technique you suggest at the start.
Thanks for the update though, I’ll have another look at the calender.
It probably depends on how tall and what strength level. The need for high strength levels to handle large strides out of blocks has been discussed here before, and I don’t think it’s any different for those of us who are taller. In my case, 6’4"/210, so roughly the size/build of Linford Christie and with a half squat 1RM of ~600, taking long strides in the drive phase does work, but I suspect that someone with the physique of Shawn Bradley might have some trouble doing this.
Anybody have some videos of Christie and know what he did?
I suppose this further proves that you do not have to do anything really about it; it would have been wrong of Shawn Bradley to try and copy Linford Christie, I believe. Depending on your physique it will come naturally…
If you had bothered to read my post I said the small sprinter struggle to achieve this I never said the can’t achieve this model! the small fellas achieve this long stride through power alone, through the gym because of a lack of physical attributes.
I wonder what race you were watching when tim monte broke the world reocord. Look how short his stride went and much his cadence increased, this was no accident!
I also said this is why the tall sprinters are winning now as in the last year or so. for example 1st and 2nd place in the 100m olympic final went to 6 footers, 3rd place went to mo, but he is one of the short sprinter who can achieve this new model, saying he his powerful would be an understatement, but he couldn’t keep up with the big fellas.
think about it.it makes sense!
I did bother to read your post- though I can’t make heads or tails out of what you think your saying.
First you talk about small fellas using youir "model’ through power, then you acknowledge that Tim ran with very high frequency (up to 5.44 strides per second) Which is it??
BTW,Which of these tall guys has run under 9.80 yet??
So Mo “couldn’t keep up with the big fellas”. That’d make more sense if they had ever run as fast as he has over Many Many years- champion in 97.99.2000, 2001, with scores of times faster than the two current guys.
Using current results to make long term theories is a mistake. Always has been - always will be.
While your getting a grip on reality, get a grip on the rules around here as well (I cleaned up your post- this time)
Mo ran the same time this olympics as he did in the last olympics! This time however, his time only led to a third place finish! He did the best he could given his motorcycle accident that happened 1-2 years earlier! If he hadn’t had that motorcycle injury I would place my money on him (and still assuming that Asafa Powell would have choked in the same way)!
BTW,
"Greene revealed he broke his left leg in a motorcycle accident in 2002, but kept information about the injury silent since he was in a contract negotiation. Greene said the accident happened on a freeway near Los Angeles when he was side-swiped by a car. He broke the head of the fibula bone. Greene didn’t want a police report filed on the accident, as so not to leave a paper trail. “The only good thing about it was we didn’t have any major championship that year,” he said. “All I had to do was get ready for the U.S. championships and with me doing hard rehab I was able to get myself up and ready for the U.S. championships and I was able to win with 2 1/2 months of training.” Last year Greene battled knee tendinitis and other nagging injuries, but that’s nothing compared to the motorcycle accident. It just seems this athlete has the constant need for speed. “A motorcycle is fun. It’s an adrenaline rush,” Greene said. “I don’t have one in my sights any more.”
2001: “Won his third World 100m title in a row in the fastest time in the world in 2001, running the third-fastest time in history (9.82) despite a headwind of .2 meters per second and suffering an injury to his left quadriceps meters prior to the finish. The injury ended his season…also battled tendonitis in his knee throughout the year”
yes I acknowledge tim has a very high frequency TOWARDS THE END OF THE RACE COMPARED TO THE BEGINING, this is the new model. when these tall guys get perfect race conditon a +2.0 wind or a fixed wind gauge they will run under 9.80.
behave yourself! I don’t know if you have you have got a gay thing goin on for mo but it sound like it. I would get some toilet paper for whoever told you that story becuase they must have sh#t coming out of there mouth
Look, smart guy!! I set up Tim,s training plan when he was running well, worked with him and analysed his runs. so don’t talk bullshit! His initial steps were very short and peak frequency for him (and virtually everyone else) occurs around 30 to 40m, not at the end.
It was precisely the introduction of a long step at the start at the Trials in 2003 that caused him to trip and go from the 10.03s he’d been running with no coach at all for months to the 10.20s he started running with your kind of advice.