ESTI
February 22, 2009, 9:33pm
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Or Tom Tellez’s training of Lewis and Burrell: Thwey “raced” a time trial over 400m 10 days before each peak, including world or Olympics. Lewis ran 46.2 or thereabouts 10 or 11 days before Tokyo in 1991 where he opened with the first sub-9.90 and Burrell also went under 9.90 in second place (from memory).
I think the idea is American in origin and is based around the notion that the sprinter is forced to “excite” and “recruit” extra muscle tissue which would not normally be “awakened” in the course of normal 100 and 200 training. So they are looking for some kind of super-compensation effect, but it is based around a neural approach to improving performance. It sounds good, not sure whether it actually works that way though.
Interesting. I guess the next question is why now in February are they looking for this? Could this also mark the end of a training phase? How much longer are they in Oz?