Speed endurance the key to *all* 11/12second sprinters?

[Track007]

@Charlie_Francis

Training and competition are different. No one can argue that Ben did S-to-l yet in the beginning of indoors in 1987 and 1988 he had to translate power into an effective start. In his first race in 87 he was left in the blocks and same in 88 (even though his first two races were wrs over 50y, he had to come from well behind.)
Bolt does considerable heavy sled work early on like Asafa and if you note on my graphs (you WILL find Ben’s triple periodized plan from 1987 in several of my products), you will see that my definition of planning direction is based solely on the consideration of high intensity elements within any program.
Ben also did 7 x 300 in 45 with 100m break, which is not easy but again is not high intensity.
Bolt doing 38 in a 300 folowed by 180, 150, regardless of how tough the combo is, will still fall under the catagory of low intensity work for him IMO.
Bolt opens up with a 400m in ,for him, a pedestrian time- look at the film for confirmation.
Ben could have opened with a 400 as well (he even did once and won the Ontario junior 400 indoor looking over his shoulder the whole way only because he showed up late for the 50m! He was never late again!) but that didn’t change the training approach overall.

So Charlie what clues would you expect to see in the progression of performance capabilities throughout the competitive year (assuming that athletes did do indoors) that would distinguish the double-periodized (DP) trained athlete from the triple periodized (TP) one competing in the 100 and 200?

Also is it simply that the DP athlete has two distinct competition periods (indoors and a relatively long outdoors which incorporates some of the early competitions in with the SPP2 and it is merely the ‘freshening-up’ factor that gives the impression that an extra training block may have occurred) whereas the TP athlete has three (indoors, early outdoor season and peak outdoor period) as outlined in your material?