I came across an iterview, in which Brooks Johnson speaks about the current state of T&F…he coaches Capel, David Oliver and many other…do you have any info on his training?
I know he had a coaching manual published somewhere, but could not get any info on availability and so on.
He produced a Coaching Notebook some ten or so years ago. Roughly ninety pages.
At the time, I thought it had several interesting points. Simple explanations for the delivery and energy supply systems. As well as some good training plans. Seemed to be directed more towards the middle distance events - though some special cases for sprints.
Would be interested to hear more about this also!
Is it still available?What is his coaching philosophy?
I couldn’t tell you if the manual is still available. However his contact info is the following:
Phone - (407) 939-4134
Email - sutrac@aol.com
address: 5221 Hillview Ln, Orlando, FL 32819
From what I can take from his material, biomechanics play an important part as well as pre-specific work conditioning. He might’ve changed from this, but the conditioning phase encompassed a 2-2-2-1 training ratio of speed/SE, SpecEnd, rest, recovery and aerobic work. Weight training 3 days/wk with emphasis on foot strength. ham/glute, hip extensors/flexors, tricep/bicep and forearms (not clear on this).
The competition phase changes quite a bit. Still a lot of aerobic work (30/30 - easy gossip jog for 30 min, followed by easy form strides for 30 minutes) for my taste. It eventually gets tapered down to a 20/20 during the “championship phase”!
Again these are probably different today with his short duration sprinters.
Sorry, are these his personal contact details??
Forearm development? Never really considered this, unless it’s for stability in the set position?? How about the need for bicep and tricep strength? I am very unsure about the need for upper strength in sprinting, but at least with the bench, I can see the logic in that it is a large compound movement, so you may strengthen the organism as a whole.
It would seem the training is fairly intense looking at those ratios you mentioned, and then adding three weights sessions per week on top of that!
Regarding the aerobic element during the competition phase, could that not be seen as active recovery work if the intensity is so low? I assume it is referred to as gossip jog so you can comfortably hold a conversation throughout?
Charile, want to give your two cents on Mr. Johnson?