Interesting that a lot of what he says is also a lot of what Charlie said, simplicity, not getting cute with weights, not overanalyzing, stepping down, etc.
Did he mention those things that you noted as bullshit as being fads?
He didn’t call them bullshit, but he actively discouraged overemphasizing the importance of minor issues. Basically, he said to focus on getting people running right mechanically, then start trying to fine tune things.
He claimed that not that many people were doing the low heel recovery thing, and someone said “tons of Jamaicans are doing it,” and his response was, “Let them!”
Again, many were turned off by his old school approach, but they are missing the deeper truth in my opinion.
For the record, I didn’t mean to say that heel recovery etc. is bullshit, just that in the grand scheme isn’t a huge deal and comes down to one’s preferred approach. My coach down south got me doing low heel recovery this summer (without every saying “drag your toe”) and I definitely like it a lot. It helped me keep things on the front side instead of flailing my legs out the back after 50m.
I got you. Well the old school approach, like the Jamaicans do, is kicking the worlds ass and has for awhile.
John Smith’s plan is almost identical to Tellez. He only doesn’t do the long runs at the start of the year opting to break it into 200 and 300 but multiple sets.
Lance Brauman’s plan is setup very similarly to Tellez and Smith.
The Jamaicans training has been described to me by a very highly respected, world renown coach who knows what they do as, “basic and old school”.
tellez had smith working under him as an assistant track coach in ucla before tom moved to UH and thats why JS still uses toms methods but modified a little
