“If it’s ever 3rd & 300, just take me out of the game.” -Brian Cushing
Best,
Christopher
d1, best 100m guy around 10.6x and the worst around 11.1x. it’s an ivy so while a couple guys go to the ncaa championships each year theres not much depth so guys like me can get on the team :-p haha
the coach i think is with the us virgin islands team right now so as far as rep goes his is pretty good. since he knows i’m a short sprinter the 500m wont read too much into whether i make the team or not. i think its just a team wide shj type of thing to see fitness
here’s the predictor i found online -> http://www.brianmac.co.uk/sprints/pred250.htm ironically one day in the same day I ran a 4.14 for 30m yet 6.40 for 50m 
and my best 30m is closer to 4.09 but even my 55m was never very impressive (6.89) so i think its both maxV and SE that are issues. most of my training through the summer and fall was weights and plyos so i guess its no surprise what my strength in the race is
haha, i agree, but since its tryouts and i gotta make the best impression I at least gotta show I can survive it
sun july 17
weigh in -> 145
elliptical to warm up
static stretching
self-massage (hands for joints, rolling stick for muscles)
notes:
-no surprise I lost weight, at camp I ate less than usual, wasn’t able to lift and spent a lot of time moving about in the sun
As is typical from a weights and jumps heavy program. There you have it then, maxV and SE
Get bigger, stronger, while getting fitter and I promise you can milk that cow for the next 2 years at least. I have seen it many times!!!
If you were driving a car I would say you are going from 3rd gear to 5th gear. You are not reaching maxV.
haha, at least i know what i need to work on. unfortunately maxV is hard to improve and SE training isn’t supposed to be worked on specifically this early in the season (if I’m not mistaken) so I will have to hope mechanics work and conditioning will do its charm until I’m in season and get more specific
that’s the goal! though I was repping more than 2x my bw to parallel last fall and was probably a high 11 runner at that point so i’m not sure i need much more strength for how slow i am. I think my main problems are mental and mechanical but I’m sure I can still see huge gains with very general training
if I had more maxV I’d be ecstatic, what do you recommend for finding this 4th gear? my in-race problem seems to be excessive backside mechanics, but in training session once I get upright my stride rate just plummets, even if I’m not trying to extend my stride or anything
mon july 18
-dynamic warm up w/ backflip and 1 human flag each added
-static stretching
-10x20m grass hills 3pt w/ spikes r: 2’
-50 contacts plyos (~5 broad, 9 standing triple, 7 vertical, 5 single leg leaps, 5 depth jumps, 5 hurdle hops w/ post-accel, 15 llrr hops)
-jump rope
-monday lifting
-static stretching
notes:
-felt good to be working hard again. warm up was much more extensive than I was used to and the lifting used higher reps for legs than I’ve been doing lately. lifting four times a week again will take a little getting used to
-did reps of sprinting by feel, began to feel a bit burnt at 10 so I stopped. used the “z” cue from the camp by thinking about bringing my toe to my knee. felt great on several reps. made sure to hit triple ext. and to exhale at initial push off then hold breath
Keep this in mind, you must do what you must do.
There are no “absolutes” when it comes to when you can work on certain sprint abilities with the proviso that the prerequisite abilities are in place.
Obviously maxV must precede speed endurance when maxV isn’t high enough yet. So you are free to address the maxV work as early as you want specifically because you aren’t currently fast enough for it to be “risky”.
We’ve already established that your 30m ability is more than sufficient to go sub 11 when maxV and speed endurance are in place; which they are not. Thus, it is in your interest to address maxV in the short term and not wait until some arbitrary point in the season.
If you’re ready you’re ready.
Begin your sessions with some block starts and short accels to get the volume you need to compliment the volume you won’t get with maxV and don’t be afraid to insert some speed endurance in low volumes one session a week.
The lower your level of speed the sooner you can address abilities that a very fast runner will have to wait for due to their output levels.
More speed is almost always the key; the difference lies in what each individual must do in order to develop it.
What kind of running were you doing??? I know guys who have gotten bigger and stronger while doing nothing but hills-sleds-mod to high ext tempo and bb weights. Don’t make this harder then it is!!!
Mon: 2x4x30 sleds+lb wts
Tue: ext tempo 400’s+ub wts
Wed: 3x3x50 hills
Thur: active recovery
Fri: 2x4x30 sleds+lb wts
Sat:ext tempo 200’s+ub wts
You could do the above program for months and get great development for the lower level sprinter
i haven’t thought about it like this before. that makes a lot of sense. my long hils day hits se and shorter hills day is low enough volume i could definitely fit in some top speed work. on my testing day each week i wil be practicing 30m fly so thatll cover top speed (i’ll vary from a 15m to a 30m lead-in)
as would make sense for the type of rnner i am, mostly shorter stuff, my past journals are around on the site somewhere… haha. though i did fit in flys and such at some point, just i think the overkill i did on the weights inhibited that development
my set up for his month does look somewhat similar to your example setup, though i like james’s idea on adding some maxV devel
You need to make clear that your 30m time is handtime not FAT/touchpad which equals your 100m time.
it’s not handtime, i took hd video with a flipvideo camera and used a frame by frame timer starting from my first movement to when my chest crosses the 30m mark. it’s accurate to about the .03
Please post that vid it would help…
Forget about backside mechanics I suggest they are the result of frontside mechanics, the faster the leg moves the longer it will take to recock for next stride. If you watch the feet of some top 100m runners then 1000m runners and compare the cycle you should see what I am getting at. I will suggest your are popping up too early.