Anyone know how to train decathletes? I was looking into getting into this, as I’ve always been a jack of trades athletically
decathletes…they need to have in place all the physical qualities, s wella s the technical ones.each race is trained,(except the 1500) during the week, and during competitive periods, usually 3 specialties are trained in a single day.
some coaches, when introducing atheltes to the deca…(not that DECA!) stress the importance of the high hurdles race, 'cause it has a really high correlation with the results on the 100, the 400, as wellas LJ,other than being really challenging itself.
It takes years to develop all the skills, but if you are a good sprinter-jumper with a good frame, you are on your way to become a decathlete.
I have some stats of 1997, and among the top 30 decathles in the world, mean heigth was 6"2, and the weigth aroud 195.