Lashawn Merritt training

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The program seems to work well for Merritt, Rocket, there is more than one way to skin a cat, they don’t do 1 hour runs all year, As Dwayne Miller explained, that is in their prep period, as the phases go on the rep distances get shorter and faster, they do hills and look at the Champ Phase, it’s all speed and are ready for it at that point. Miller found less injuries that way, no one is saying it’s the best program, but much of it is taken from Hart and I believe Bud Winter as well.

Merritt has had minimal overall improvement since leaving ECU (ie what he would have run if he stuck out even 1 full season indoors and out @ ECU). If he would have stayed there, he would be going much faster than he is now. He had so much improvement running there off of just a fall and partial winter and then spent a bunch of time muddling around and didn’t have any improvement this past year.