Just who is this legend- this Joe Dirt character who poses as a head track coach? Uh-long pause-I’m the head coach-long pause-and I think-long pause- uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, comment from uninterested party(which could just about be anybody) - yeah, whatever buddy, that’s too bad.
We speak of a mythical soldier who sweeps down from the Neverlands to promote “strength” running for sprinters. His x-ray powers (that sometimes get confused with staring) can look into an athletes eye and determine if he or she needs more of a “base” before beginning sprint work. He is as mysterious as the unicorn and Spam.
In fact, Dlive11, you may have just uncovered a real mystery. I feel as though this mythical angel of running death may might be actually made of the jelly like substance found on Spam. Question: Does everyone he beams his all-seeing x-ray powers at, eventually need to do “STRENGTH” work as deemed by the dean of all hair stylists? Why it would not have taken him more than a few seconds to give Ben Johnson a quick look over and inform him that he “is just not strong enough” and is going to have to invest in couple of months and many miles of “strength work” before he should proceed into true “speed” work like 12 x 200m with a complete and total recovery between reps like, say, 30 seconds. Just imagine where Ben could have been? He could have easily ADDED a second to his 100m pr with the proper type of “McGyver inspired type of strength work.” Just a thought.
True. He believes that it is not the time you finish the race in, but how strong you look when finishing. A 14.2 is just as good as a 9.78 if the athlete can finish and still be able to do a 5k afterwards!!! Training for the millenium.
I agree. It’s not so much who finishes first with a time/performance which might re-define/expand human capabilities or capacities. No, it’s the guy who is nearing the finish line in a 100m while the really fast competitors already have their sweats on and the clerk of course is putting the milers in position on the waterfall line to run when, WAIT! we still have a runner out on the course(100m straight) called out by the track announcer. If you finish with a flourish, well that’s just cool. It’s more important to finish strong then to run fast earlier(many seconds earlier). “Bunch of show-offs-fast guys” the strength runner mutters to himself as he is quckly ushered off of the track by meet officials, satisfied that day that his front side mechanics have allowed him to compete at an, uh, unheard of level. Take that you fast guys!!!
Pioneer,
the best way to know that your “strength-mileage” training is paying off, is to hook up your athlete (test-dummy) to a EMS machine and turn it up full blast. If the muscles dont jump, then your training is a success. You now have someone with negative twitch!!
Hey Dlive11, what kind of strength effect could a distance runner with a real base of “strength” work hope to get with an EMS? Most of the guys that have put in the necessary mileage like 140+ miles are so “strong” they would all probably break the machines. This is the type of work that will eventually lead to great speed. Imagine what Ben would have done with a greater base of “Strength work”-you know mega mileage? By the way, I know just the guy to train him and I think you do too. Let’s just call him the Dean of all distance coaches.
From what I understand, the Soviet Government has an underground lab that is specifically engineered to produce medals in the short sprints and jumps. Their leading physios are testing a new protocol that entails shrinking motor neurons by implementing over-over-hammer-over-distance training in the athletes. Dr. Arigoto Hasslehoff is heading up the program and is incorporating downhill sprint training with 25 mile intensive tempo paced runs. I think it will blow, (errr), the competition away.
Are these the new technique of implementing “hammer runs”? Much in the tradition of hammering everything. For example after my hammer(actual)session I have to hammer stretch then have a hammer meal, then go take a hammer shower and then go to hammer sleep.