I am sure it was 30 steps, and by the sounds of things that is too much. i actually did try a smaller runway but i couldn’r build up enough speed in time and i would hit it at like 80% maybe, if lucky. i need to work on acceleration.
ok, from now i will just rest it up. I do have school exams coming up, so maybe instead of working out i can study. but i will make sure i get fresh air and good foods.
I completely understand what you mean by following a program. i guess i had the mindset that ‘2 weeks i will not see gains, so don’t bother!’ but after this meet, this is when things get serious. I will follow a training program and such. But however i train depends on how i go on Wednesday. and also, after the meet i am setting more short and long term goals.
but thanks for the reply pope, really got me thinking about my dedication and it seems i am not dedicated enough. but i promise you, and everyone here at charliefrancis that i will become dedicated as everyone else here…
Sunday
Rest Day
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I, once again, resting today. making sure my body is 100% free of injuries.
I am getting excited and nervous about the meet. Sometimes i think ‘what if i go really bad? what if i foul all my jumps’ and then i think ‘what is i beat my old pb? what if i happen to somehow jump 6.30m and make it on’ so many things running through my mind.
However, come the day, i need to wipe out all negative thoughts.
I had a English exam today. so my mind was focused on long jumping. but that has all changed. After the exam i went and got my spikes. and i do not have any more exams till friday, so i can pay attention to long jumping.
This is open to anyone but i would like to hear from pope.
Now don’t get me wrong, i am feeling good, confident and excited. but i would like to know about some of the techniques you use to get your mind in the game? how do you prepare mentally for a jump?
such as the night before? the morning of a meet? a hour before jumping? right before jumping? What is your mind like?
Today all i have been doing is bludging around, taking it easy. Just making sure everything is right for tomorrow.
I am getting pumped up for this. i heard a quote earlier but somehow i forgot it, but it was a good one. something like “You just need to believe you can do it” or something, i don’t know.
So ive got nothing else to say at the moment, but something may come up later on in the day.
But if nothing does come up and i don’t post, wish me luck!
The way I see it is that the best performances come when optimisation of rest, training, and spirit occur.
You have rest four days in a row which is good. You have been training hard up until this point. You spirit has much to do with your attitude.
You have to have something to prove, you have to confident and visualise you actually jumping that far. If you get those, you just need to relax and let go and let your body take over.
i do have something to prove, i have to prove that i can do this. the way i see it, i have 3-4 more jumps left. 3-4 jumps and if i don’t make it on, thats it, jumping is over until i find something else. if i make it on, i can jump even more.
i have to prove that i am better than what everyone thinks. i have to prove that i can compete with the big dogs.
i do have things to prove, and it is going down tomorrow.
i know i can do this. them other guys have got nothing on me. sure my PB is 5.36m, but geez, the conditions that it was set in was fairly bad. we are talking cold, low motivation due to weather and only 4 jumpers.
i believe i jump better when everyone else is jumping as good or better. for example, at my school carnival, i first jump 4.90m, then a mate jumped 4.95m, then i jumped 5m, then he jumped 5.03m and then i jumped 5.07m and then he couldn’t match it. you see, as my mate stepped it up, so did i.
so tomorrow i have to step it up a notch. 6.30 is far, i will give it that. but it is not impossible.
Impossible is just a big word thrown around small men..
i see impossible not as a statement but as a challenge
Impossible Is Nothing
on the trip up, waiting around and right before, all i am doing is seeing myself jumping over that marker. i will be repeating them above quotes over and over.
I will try and convince our sports coordinator to either get photos or video clips, whatever.
But it is on now fellas, if anyone else has some encouraging words like rapsmvp (thanks mate, i forgot to thank you, but your post is what started the above, so youve pumped me up) please post.
i am not only jumping for my school, i am not only jumping for me, but i am jumping for charliefrancis.com and guys, i am not going to let you down!!
My first jump was horrible. i didn’t hit the board right and this stuffed up my in-air form, which resulted in not a proper landing. this was the 4.46m jump.
My second jump i fouled by a meer .5cm. And my 3rd jump i fouled again.
There were 7 jumpers, and the two worse were eliminated. i was the worse jumper, i came last.
What annoys me is that if i just submitted my last jump, i woulda came 4th. because 4 place guy jumped 5.08m. and i just could not step up and jump over 5m. i couldn’t even jump 5m. this was the first time this year i jumped in the 4m.
I am really pissed at myself, i even lashed out and threw my bag into the wall i was so mad at myself. it wasn’t the weather, it wasn’t other people, it was my fault.
So i guess for now my long jump career is over. so starting monday i will get back into 100m training.
You have to understand first off that most 100m training correlates pretty significantly to long jump and that there is really not much need to totally scrap the long jump especially at these early phases.
Also you must understand that there are going to be set backs and if you let them get to you that much you will be able to accomplish very little. You have to take things as they come, no one meet is going to define you at this point, the goal is a collective progress.
Expecting to jump 6.3m when your pr is 5.36m is a bit misguided at this point. You need to focus on the small things right now, like hitting the board on each jump, or getting good speed down the runway or having a nice landing, rome wasnt built in a day.
Everyone has bad days or even bad events, hell after I jumped 22’1 the very next event I did I ran 12.00 in the 100 with my pr at 11.29. i have had a couple occasions where I was lucky to get over the 20’ mark as well. You have to take into consideration weather, your training, your motivation, and just the fluations that can occur from meet to meet.
Your not going to become a 21’ long jumper over night it takes work and dedication. You cant expect everything to come together when you have worked on it for such a limited amount of time, and you cant give up just because things dont work out in one meet. IMO your long jump is further along than your 100m and it would be foolish to scrap it because of one meet, you have a lot to work on, but working is 99% of the job 1% is competing. Stick in there and take a couple bumps and bruises before you just give up on it.
thanks for all that. everything you said was true. the reason that this was the “defining meet” was because i don’t know if there is any local athletics that support long jump. but now i think i will have a look around, see some people and such.
But for now i think i will focus on sprinting until i find some information about long jump.
and also i found out in order to go to state you just needed to come first or second, no matter how far you jump. cos the top guy jumped 5.60m. then if you came third place but made the qualifying distance, you would be considered, but that never came into place. so i had the mindset i needed 6.30m which may of put too much pressure on me, and this led to over-anxiety. i only found out the above after i jumped.
but oh well, like you said, i need to expect some downs. but like i said earlier, might get back into pure sprinting for a while.
Richo,
Most of the posts I see here seem to be on long jumping rather than your 100m. So, it seems that you like LJ more.
Do what YOU want to do. Don’t drop LJ if you love it. You had a bad meet. So what? everyone has one. You even know what things you did wrong: Hit board wrong, stuffed up in air, bad landing, etc. So now is the time to correct these things. An extended break now while the meet is fresh in your mind would diminish the potential correction you could make.
When you fix these corrections, and practice correctly, then it will become like clockwork, and you will become a machine, just replicating the same action over and over. You must think that you are a machine. A meet should be just routine, a situation where you say, “I’m gonna go out and do what I do” or “just another day at the office”. It is not a life and death situation.
And as for finding good information BEFORE you start practicing long jump…Good information is all well and good, but on the runway and in the pit is where you will learn the most.
I will continue doing Long Jump, and also do 100m.
So i will end up being a hard sprinting, long jmuping, speed machine.
New Program
So thanks to a couple people, i have had some good simple programs for both 100m and long jump, but at seperate times. now i would like to learn how to design effective 100m and long jumping programs. so in other words, can a few members ‘teach’ me the fundamentals and such. i would like to train for both 100m and long jump at the same time. so if anyone can help, please post.
thanks in advance
p.s. i am not after you giving me a program, i would rather learn how to design the best programs. that way, i am expanding my mind and i can help others also. so when i say learn, i would like to learn the best times to train and why, best weight training and what days and why, proper rest, distances for sprinting and why. just all that stuff, but i would also like to know ‘why’ so i can apply it to other programs. thanks in advance
Well richo, 4.46m is not so good yes. But I think it really all comes down to you not getting coaching. I think you can easily jump over 5.60m if you get someone to coach you. You determine how far you go in the event not your past events so put this behind you.
I dont know if you have this, but one of the HSI videos talks about how an athlete handles a loss. Very insipirational stuff. I’ll send you a pm for a link if you dont have it and would like to see it.
popequique some very good advice you have given richo, but do you honestly believe that? Its gotta be more like 80% working to 20% competing. None the less I enjoy reading your posts
yeah i am putting that meet behind me and learn from it. the thing that makes athletes is learning from mistakes and improving ourselves. i believe i know what went wrong, so i am going to improve so i dont make them same mistakes again.
i would like to see that video if you don’t mind pming me the links thanks.
thanks rapsmvp, always there to help me…
completely off-topic to the above, my program. has anyone read my above post, i would really like a couple guys to help me, to teach me
Ha well I guess it depends how you look at it. I mean in an average week i probably work out 7-8hrs atleast probably for about 45 weeks a year.
Give or take I’ll run 15 meets a year 55 takes under 7 seconds, 100 takes under 12, a long jump i dunno maybe 6 or so I would guess. So at the most maybe a good minute of competing.
Plus I mean I really only look at championships as really competing the other minor meets I just take as a part of training and guaging my levels. So thats really only 2-3 meets year so that maybe 2 minutes of really competing all year, compared to hundreds of hours of training.
So maybe actually like 99.99% to .01%. Haha just messin with ya man I know what ya mean.
after reading that, that is alot of competing. do you love competing?
pope, maybe you can help me on doing this program. you have helped me before, but this isn’t long jump speific, nor a meet coming up. but i would appreicate it if you were one of the members to help me. what you say?
by the way, i am talking about learning about designing a program. i have tried searching the forum, but i am not a expert at it. i found things, just things not for me, you know. like i found some information but its hartd to relate it to me and my position and such. and i probably didn’t use the search properly either.
Well for college our indoor season consists of 7 meets as well as our outdoor season. Then I usually compete in between 3-5 meets in the summer. Usually I make a valient attempt to find an excuse to not run in a meet or two during our seasons as 14 meets wears me down I try to miss one in the middle of each season so I dont start to wear out.
Yea I could give you a few pointers although it probably isnt quite what others here would use.
