Koreans: Why Bolt runs 400m

[Track007]

@syrus2001

A friend of mine who’s a korean citizen but lives in canada with his family is a junior sprinter and gets his training plans from the korean coach.

He does tempo a lot. 300’s,200’s,150’s all the time. Also some of it is barefoot on a hard as nails indoor surface. The reasoning that I’ve heard a few coaches throw around is that it develops the hamstrings and glutes. Personally I think there are less painful and easier ways to develop these areas, if that is in fact their reasoning for the use. They’re really pushing hip mobility and glute/ham development.

He dropped his 60 time from 6.97 to 6.74. And that was his season opener. But there are a ton of other variables involved in his training that aren’t linked to the tempo he does obviously. I’ve been watching him closely during his workouts (he’ll come in and do his workouts with me) just running his tempo and busting out 6.7’s.

But surely he must be doing short speed work or other high intensity stuff like Olympic lifts and/or plyos?