Bolt 9.69 and the New Limits of Human Performance

[Charlie_Francis]

@kitkat1

Thanks PJ, you’ve done it again :). I like this kind of work and it’s always interesting to see the target times and intervals between reps/sets.

Was that 12mins rest between sets on the Tuesday session?

Coach seems to be using the 300m as a depletion run, then asking 18-19sec for 180 on the backup rep is putting up the demands considerably. It’s the sort of concept I like to use for 400m development. But I would probably invite the athlete to use a three step roll up for the 180 which would make the target time easier to achieve and take stress off the athlete by not asking him to burst away from a stationary position at the start of the backup run.

The 150 in 16 is icing on the cake, not as severe as 180 in 18-ish, but still requires a high degree of concentration, effort and control - but still dangerous to go for speeds like that in a state of some fatigue when starting from a stationary position. For safety’s sake I’d be rolling those starts on all the backups.

Interesting but I’d like to see this contrasted with last years workouts at the same time.
I feel the workouts would not be very extreme for Bolt at his level. What do you think of the breaks? Would you use those breaks or would you keep the breaks at the same duration between all runs- ie 12m and 12m, instead of 8m and 12m??