Bolt 9.69 and the New Limits of Human Performance

[Charlie_Francis]

@lkh

Go back and look at the wonderful photo KK created:

We’re never going to know if Glen Mills had Bolt intentionally hold back at the start a la John Smith, but notice that, while Bolt ran a decent start, he did NOT blow everybody away at the start: It was the acceleration and particularly the MaxV that followed.

Bolt was doing short-long and made a commitment to weight training in the offseason. The large amount of power/accel training that Franno uses speaks for itself; The same thing applies to Linford.

In my mind, these are the things that you have to do if you are a taller sprinter: more power work and not so much l-s type overdistance.

PJ’s splits make clear that Bol was ahead from the start and was leading at 30m.