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

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@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.

From PJ:

Rough translation:
Usain had 3 hours interview on Monday morning. Then he had this workout in pm : 6x180m without starting blocks in 20"5 with 8min rest, which is described as moderate tempo. Mills estimates that Bolt’s level that day before the workout was 75%, and Patrick Dawson was the timer : 19’’6, 20’’6, 20’’5, 19’’9, 20’’3, 20’’1.
On Tuesday, the workout is planned to be 2 sets of 300m, 180m, 150m with 8 and 12min rest. Pace is 35", 18-19" and 16". This is described as Speed Resistance.

Pardon me, but how are either of these workouts extensive tempo? The breaks are far longer than any recommended, relatively fast, and done on the track, in spikes IIRC. I think they are about as clear of an example of intensive tempo as one could get. If that isn’t intensive tempo, then nothing is.

Also, Bolt as consistently behind at the start UNTIL the WC. I am not talking about his first few races, but all of them.