Dwain Chambers Q & A

Stevemac24 · March 1, 2009, 4:01am

His training is best described as ad hoc a mix of many influences. He doesn’t have a coach, but someone who oversees his runs. I have watched their sessions and I can’t for the life of me figure out the method or pattern, I do know that it looks awesome…shock and awe describes the feelings. The first 30m is out of this world (3.4 sec hand time). You can feel the his movements as he passes you, a bit like a fast car displacing air. But to be fair I am not there everyday. I get the feeling that the 400m training is influenced by their belief that Bolt is running fast over the 100m because of his 200 and 400m training background. We saw him attempt a 200m indoors in a training session in October 08. He could only manage 24 sec or there abouts. He lay on the rack for about 5 minutes catching his breath and that was the end of it. In training he has been timed going through the 60m in 6.4 sec with timing gates. What is interesting to see is the after effects, it looks like he is hurting after each 60m run possibly due to the immense power he is generating. It makes me wonder if he really needs run further than 150m? I reckon 150m in 14+ secs would be more than enough. Basically they are speculating and inferring as to what makes Bolt so fast. Is it opinion or hard fact based on concrete analysis?
He has a book launch on the way www.nuffinlong.com/sports DWAIN CHAMBERS - “RACE AGAINST ME” - BOOK LAUNCH 2ND MARCH 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtO7bYPhx_c

He is very helpful to younger athletes, seems to have become very humble due to his experiences.

Re ad hoc training - he’s still one of the best in the UK, if not the best.