PJ great great posts’ and you should be very very proud of yourself and your star.
bolden is wrong with his statement…keep your athlete rested and the veyr very best of luck
we are all behind you 100%
thanks again for your inside posts’
regards
X-Man
Hello Charlie & Company
PJ or Charlie or anybody who has had experience with top 10 sprinters or world class sprinters.
I mean if the winning horse at the Kentucky Derby this year made well over 2 million dollars and we’re talking horses here!!! Surely, human beings who are coming in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in international track & field competition are earning much more than that. And if they are not then something is seriously wrong with the sport of track & field. I mean if individuals are going to spend a lifetime training to run under 10 sec. and get peanuts at the end of the day. Then I as a performance coach am not going to recommend athletes enter track & field. I mean I am a realist, at the end of the day if the effort does not match the reward what the hell is the purpose of busting your balls day in and day out for peanuts. That is nothing more than economic slavery? The baseball players I train make millions a year and I am sure do not train half as hard as Mr. Olu. How economically fair is that?
In the Spirit of Sport
P.S. PJ if things do not work out economically for Mr. Olu would he be interested in taking up American Football. I know if he learned the sport and applied 80% of what he has from a
speed perspective on a football field. He could be very well off in the future. Just a thought!!!
Ya, the resting is going to be the trick. Of course now that Fasuba is popular, there is going to be the temptation of getting big paychecks every weekend at the risk of overtraining, and possible injury. Money money money
Don’t know what you’re talking about. Everything seems fine to me - have a look 
SC the secret is being consistant and appearing al year round.now that PJ’s athlete is running great he can ask for good money and play the game.
PJ,
it would be interesting to let us know, if you don’t mind, how Olu is/feels this following week because of the race, his fever, etc…
Thanks!
PJ, I know L’equipe and the IAAF value you as a correspondent. Now everyone else can see why (if they hadn’t noticed the Postcard from Melbourne thread). Brilliant insight into the (sometimes) harsh realities of “making it” into the top echelon of the most important event in the sport. Your narrative has carried us all into the call room, as Charlie says, and given us a rare fly-on-the-wall glimpse into the process of delivering one of the greatest time-performances in the history of the most contested event, the 100. Great management, great coaching! We should have set up a thread Postcard from Doha :eek: 
To put the effort into even greater perspective is that he is now faster then some of the sports greats.
Lewis, Christie, Burrell, Fredricks, Boldon and = with Bailey, Surin
congrats all round…
I am proud of the top sprinters of the world right now. I have seen the sport evolve since I was first exposed in 96’. Sprinters used to be more cocky and arrogant in my opinion, but what I see now is a very positive atmosphere where guys can push each other, yet be proud of each others acheivements.
It is possible to be highly competitive yet highly positive to the other competitors and fans. In the big gist of life sprinting is a small part of many peoples worlds, but motivation can change countless individuals lives. Rivalry, is at it’s best, when the best can push each other beyond what is possible alone. I see sub 9.75 happening this year by at least two sprinters. Remember my predictions:)
I really have been impressed by Gat, Powell and Olu, from what I have seen they know how to handle what they have been gifted with.
Hello X Man,
I have yet to get an idea of just what kind of salaries these athletes are making at the international level. I mean by the sounds of it Mr. PJ, Olu’s coach, has been scraping pennies together and hoping things will be alright. Now by the grace of God, everything has gone fairly well. But what if Olu’s hamstring acted up to the point that he needed to seek out costly experts? Would he even have been in Qatar to compete and do what he did if that scenario would have presented itself?
And my question to you or anybody out there is what is “good” money? Is “good” money 6, 7, or even 8 digit salaries? I wish I could get an answer on this point!!!
In the Spirit of Sport
nice job PJ!!
Well Gatlin was apparently paid £100,000 to appear at the three Grand Prix meetings in the UK this summer. So if you are at the top of the tree you can earn a lot. The lower level EAP meetings give out something like EURO300 for first place EURO200 for second and EURO100 for the third. This travel and accomodation.
Hope this helps.
TC
Great post PJ and a fantastic effort by both you and Olu.
A few questions.
How did you and him get together?
How long have you been coaching him?
How do you manage the coaching with him in Nigeria and you in France?
THY so much PJ.
I have to admit: First i thought very very similar like Ato about the whole race and was very very sceptic. But i think this is quite normal, or?
But now i can see and feel what was going on more and more and see some reasons like his hammy, fever and so- like CF said.
Thats very great, man. Cool to read sth like this. Thats was very impressive and convincing me so much. So i can say:
JUST A GREAT PERFORMANCE !!!
But what a shame for mankind that sometimes you have to rum 9.84 to get recognized and be able to get paid. not to get rich, just to train full time. I mean: he is supposed to run fast, isnt he?
But imagine how many other “Fasuba’s” are out there and dont have THE day to achieve such things.
first of all: CONGRATULATION!
for fasuba and his 6.35 for 60m, which is the best ever recorded behind Ben Johnson and Mo with 6.33… wow!!
a little quesiton: what were the best performance in training for fasuba in 60s and 80s (and if yuo can tell the other ones)?
coul you think this tremendous performance with training times?
i just want to know how tall and how much he weighs, im intrigued to find out he doesnt lift big numbers in the weightroom, i wonder how much he squats?
Strength coach:
We have an agent, and he is working quite good, if not it is not possible to get into major meetings.
In Olu’s case the money comes from the meets (appearence fee and/or places/bonus prices) and his sponsor. Money from Federation is irrelevant.
Appearance fee is confidential, it depends on athletes, how the manager negociates and which meeting they are dealing with.
Places/bonus prices are officially announced before the meetings, you can often find the tables for each place in the meeting websites.
As for the other questions, i coach him since 2004, i travel to coach him since France is too cold.
As for training bests, last year he did twice 6.46 at training at 60m (electronic estimated time from video) in March and in June. This year, hand time, his bests (the timing starts at first movement of back foot) are 3.3 at 30m, 5.9 at 60m, 7.8 at 80m, 11.7 at 120m, 14.9 at 150m. Last year it was 3.4, 6.0, 8.0, 11.6, 15.0. For weights, 85kg at bench press, 200kg half squat, that’s the only exercises he does. Very basic sorry i’m no expert in weight lifting technique ! Last year he didn’t lifted a single bar. He is 1.76m tall and weights 76kg (add + or - 3 kg depending on how much he eats… He is currently in week 31 of the training plan, last year week 31 occured in mid-June, so you see that we are well ahead of last year program.
For those who wonder why Fasuba was fighting to run 10.11 in Melbourne in March, see “postcard for Melbourne” thread. He was one of the only one to run in both Moscow and Melbourne. In Moscow he arrived exhausted and short of competition due to travels to obtain visa for Australia. His 6.55 in heats was very easy but couldn’t do i again in final. Then he arrived in Melbourne 4 days before the race (when the other finalists were there for weeks) and his 10.11 didn’t showed his real potential i think.
Olu is the ideal athlete to train : has respect for everybody, athletes and managers likes him in the circuit, he has a brain and uses it, listens carefuly and applies the advices, he runs with heart, he laughs all the time, he is a monster of motivation (when he travels 2 x 10 hours to get a visa to compete somewhere, no need to tell you that he wants to do well there).
PJ: how on earth does Olu look like he does only doing bench and half squat?
He has very solid shoulders and traps! he doesnt do any cleans of any sort or any shoulder exercise? where does he get that power in his upper body from then? thats amazing if he only does half squat and bench!
i can understand the lower body - plyos and all that stuff to gain the leg power etc etc… but even then, the muscle development through there is huge as well for just half squats… and for only 21yo… where does it all come from?
Hi PJ, What is your definition of a half-squat please? Hamstrings to parallel, or quads to parallel? Or not as deep as either? thanks.
one thousand thx, pj!