Old Working Athletes

[lkh]

@lr1400

I personally think that the Jamaicans doing the long tempo is because if their large influence from Bud Winter and that tradition. The science doesn’t really back up long tempo I’m told but I think there may be soem type of condtitioning the body against fatigue in the upright position. Maybe. But Tyson doesn’t seem to be running long tempo he seems to do it more like breakdowns like Tellez or Smith, understanding that Smith does some long tempo for a bit.

Smith actually does it both ways. It starts out as tempo early (November) then gets faster, more like IT in December, with 200s and 300s SE1/SE mixed with 60s in January for indoors. The Tellez style weeks start later with 4/3/2 or 3/2/1 on Mondays, just like TT.

I need to get after that hammer strength.

In Bolts book he says weights helps him with the last 20m of a 200.

Remember, he said the LAST 20 of a 200, not the first 10 of a 100. He has talked about his weights helping strength-endurance. This is NOT Ben’s weight program or anything even remotely like it.