Differences in Coaching Black and White Athletes

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@speedfreak1

I heard (admittedly second hand) that a coach who has coached a sub 10.10 white athlete, along with two sub 10.10 black athletes, that he approaches training with each ethnicity slightly differently. He believes that white athletes can take a higher work load, and need a higher work load, in training, and require more plyometrics, whereas black athletes need to work hard during the winter, then they can have a much longer taper pre-comp.

Granted, he might be talking rubbish, but it got me thinking: Does anyone else believe there is, or should be, a difference in coaching athletes of different ethnicities? If so, is this due to different physiological make-ups, and, if so, which ones?

Do you think those differences in training response were primarily due to the racial differences of the athletes in question or simply differences in their needs as individuals? How many athletes are we talking about? You only mention those three. If he found this result from coaching say 30 athletes over several years I might be more receptive to the idea. But if your sample size is only the 3 you mentioned, you can’t extrapolate much from it, especially since they are at such high levels of performance which makes them statistical anomalies to begin with.