this is my first time writing.i am from nigeria.seun ogunkoya benches 140kg.do not ever believe that he struggles with 80kg.his coach that trained him to be a sprint star is very secretive.he is also the coach of damola osayomi before she left nigeria for the us.remember sunday bada?when he was running those 44s he trained him too.want information about any nigerian?will gladly tell u.
As far as I know…Sean was very strong…maybe in Czech republic he did bench pressing after partying the night:)
Chichi, how is Seun Now?Last year he had all those physicla problems… is he training now?
Sprinterouge, I’m looking forward to know her:)
sounds kool - it would be great if you could share some of their weightlifting practices!
One sprinter I worked with trained with the Cubans at a training camp in his home country. They were doing jumps and bounds at the beach in swealtering heat. The coach was watching them while relaxing in a chair, smoking a cigar. One of the exhausted Cubans asked the coach: “When are we going to be done?” and the coached replied: “When I start to sweat!”
it would be great if you could share some of their weightlifting practices!
As I wrote, it’s pretty much Boroviev’s stuff.
In february I met Sergio Alvarez (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Alvarez_Boulet) as we were flying to Cuba and asked how he was tapering for the major events. The taper is always a very interesting topic. I then spoke about the same subject with R. Chan last week.
One sprinter I worked with trained with the Cubans at a training camp in his home country. They were doing jumps and bounds at the beach in swealtering heat. The coach was watching them while relaxing in a chair, smoking a cigar. One of the exhausted Cubans asked the coach: “When are we going to be done?” and the coached replied: “When I start to sweat!”
Some of the national coaches there have not much of a clue (usually the younger guys), others are very knowledgeable. The national system and the great talent surely have a big impact on the final result.
Ogunkoya certainly looked like he was stronger than that, but I have no numbers of his. 26-28 secs off 10 mins rest!!!?? Did he elaborate as to the purpose of that session?
Yeah, I’d be very interested to hear some of the Nigerian guys’ sessions. Guys like Effiong, Adeniken, Ezinwa and Aliu. Can you give any insight into what they used to do Chichi?
Anything interesting regarding the taper - I’m of the opinion for weightlifting it is appropriate most of the time to adopt a higher intensity lower volume approach. May be 1 intensity session in the week leading up to the comp, 2 or 3 Hi sessions 2 weeks before etc. It seems it is easy to forget the movement with the high load other wise?
Yes!! Especially Aliu!! He looked like he could lift some big numbers and would have had to be strong to run technically how he did!!
Anything interesting regarding the taper - I’m of the opinion for weightlifting it is appropriate most of the time to adopt a higher intensity lower volume approach. May be 1 intensity session in the week leading up to the comp, 2 or 3 Hi sessions 2 weeks before etc. It seems it is easy to forget the movement with the high load other wise?
Alvarez does squats at 60% the day before competition.
Chan told me that the tapering approach is very personal and that heavyweight athletes stop heavy lifting two weeks out of competition, while others stop one week out.
Interestingly, he also said that a PB in the C&J can take 10-14 days to recover, while a PB in the snatch would require less time, 5-10 days. In the light of this, heavy snatches can be done closer to competition.
Thats is interesting. Any rationale behind that? I guess the clean and jerk requires two movements involves a heavier load. Does anyone have any information on where cleans and squats would fit into this. I would guess the squat would require more recovery than anything, and the clean maybe around the same time as a clean and jerk, or slightly less recovery time as it is a simpler movement??
I would guess the squat would require more recovery than anything, and the clean maybe around the same time as a clean and jerk
Squat and clean same as C&J although some throwers, for istance, move the last heavy squat session 3 weeks out the major competition, and some heavyweight weightlifters would probably do the same.
i can only tell you about nigerian spinters that train in nigeria but not us.so people like effiong ola onyali trained at us.seun is fine as of when we spoke last.seun is very strong.seun in 1997 ran 300m in 32.22s three stop watches and30 mins later ran 150m in 14.72 sec.when seun went to prague he has already completed his tough training.his problem started when he left his coach.money difference.they spilt in 1998 and since that year he has not ran fast.last year he trained with emedolus coach but their pinciples are different.aliu does not lift much.
Is Aliu based in Nigeria? What sort of track workout’s does he do if you know?
Are you aware of Seun’s squats and Olympic lifting capabilities? I remember his heat in 1997 worlds when he looked awesome but pulled up over the last few few metres, and then obviously he had a great year in 1998. Do you have anymore information on his track work?
my nigerian friends say they only eat meals twice a day, one in the morning and the evening no lunch or nothing.
aliu trains in nigeria.most of his workouts that i was aware of are mostly submaximum.he has some boys he trains with including his younger bro musa.what he normally does is that during his spp while running 80m,he puts them at 70m and chase them.seun for his olympic lift i remember he stops at 120kg because he cannnot maintain the speed his coach wants.i know he squats 240kghalf squat but he really can go higher.for his track workouts i will post some tomorrow.
which of ur nigerian friends are u talking about?i personally know 90%of nigerian athletes.we eat alot in nigeria.am a former sprinter and now a coach.at our stadiums there are lots of food vendors.
Thanks Chichi, this is all very interesting. I know Dave Lease was keen on the velocity of the lifting being high, to the point when Jason Gardener was lifting 140kg, he felt it was a disadvantage to when he was lifting 10kg less. However, if he can relate a performance drop off to that solely I don’t know. If a lot of Aliu’s work was submaximal, would putting Musa 10m ahead of him help, as it must surely encourage him to chase him leading to maximal effort running. I look forward to seeing some more of Seun’s workouts. I assume you don’t have any specific workouts of Aliu?? Thanks again.
I didn´t talk about how much he benches now. I talked about the past. I remember my friends who train with him laughing at him how weak he is… However, his strengh was on the track… I don´t talk bullshits…
with due respect pavel.i know all the sprinters that came to u.sunday emmanuel chinedu odozor,tunde suleman and godday james.i am not l am not lying.i even went to under study seuns coach.seun is not lazy as u think.he cannot speak good english so might have problem expressing himself.u will be shocked if u find out some of seuns lifting programme.and for ur information seun is still the strongest athlete to comen out of nigeria.i have a pb of 125kg in bench press but an no where near seun.i will post some of his workouts on monday.i do not have alius specific workouts.
I can’t wait to see some of his workouts. What do you think was responsible for Seun’s drop off. It wasn’t just a slight drop off, it was significant. How were the two coaching philosophies conflicting?