Excellent point. I believe this to be so. Try making technical changes in an athlete that’s in poor condition…not going to be easy. It seems to be much easier to make technical changes when the athlete is well conditioned (strong, in shape, good mobility, etc).
There are certain technical items that a sprinter simply can’t do (get block clearance, hold the sprint position, etc) with poor levels of strength or poor posture.
Easier yes- but it’s still necessary to fix what you can IF the issue won’t be fixed by greater strength alone (that’s why, to avoid anxiety, you think twice and speak once!). That said, you enter a middle period where the most correction is needed and then the top level, where, by definition, less and less issues need to be addressed.
Not much was said to Ben when he ran 14.00h for 150 beyond: “Holy Shit!”
If there HAD been something to say, it would not have been 14.00h!
14.00 for 150m! :eek: Thats an average of 0.93s/10m, compared to 0.979s/10m for a 9.79 - makes sense why it was a favourite distance to use for speed endurance
The last 50 is from a running start. Same error with the Bailey100, Johnson200 comparisons
sijmker,
Can you please expand on ‘multy-tier’ system by Horwill?
I can guess that this is very simmilar to ‘concurrent’ system proposed by CF and Marshall Burt, just the ‘components’ are tiers or paces?
I proposed simmilar method on RunTex and they got me kicked into ‘arse’… 
interesting tapsa,
“There’s a lot studies about technique changes and running economy. It looks like changes, without physical improvements, worsen running economy”
compare the above to: structure follows function (Supertraining book). If structure (physical improvements) do not come about, why is that? Inefficient function (making things conscious that should be not so? inhibition by evolution?
regards
stefan
hello duxx,
you are right the tiers are paces. It’s a concurrent system.
Over and under distance (read speed) should be trained within the same “microcycle”.
see for example http://www.serpentine.org.uk/advice/coach/fh08.php
or otherwise: Better training for distance runners by Martin & Coe.
regards,
Stefan
Thanks Stefan.
I did a search and I found the mentioned webpage, and I got Coe’s book on my shelf.
Interesting that I proposed simmilar concurrent approach as a common sense result from researching various periodization methods, before I ever heard about Burt and others.
There would be following components (for 1500m) or tiers:
I would do mesocycles of 4wks of emphasised componend and I would use linear or wave-like progression in microcycles.
Can’t remember exactly what I have wrote before a year, but this is pretty that.