What do you think? Rest the day before or a light session? I’m not talking about for a majopr event.
From a paper I got sent.
[i]The coaches I visited were all experts in sprints or hurdles, they have coached World record holders, Olympic champions, World champions etc, but that doesn’t make them good!
- Dan Pfaff (Texas, USA)
- Victor Lopez (Houston, USA)
- Gary Winkler (Illinois, USA)
- Amy Deem (Miami, USA)
- Valentin Maslakov (Russia)
- Uwe Hakus (Germany)
- Henk Kraaijenhof (Holland)
- Hakan Andersson (Sweden)
Pre-race blow-out advocated. E.g., 60m at 100% 30 mins before comp, or 6 hurdles for 400m H 50 mins before race. Also day before doing a session as neural wake up or even a “tone” day, to make sure the muscle tone is ready to run the next day. So, e.g., if racing Saturday, then rest Thursday, 3-4 starts at 90% on Friday, rather than traditional rest Friday and train on Thursday. Maybe this is not used as much if the warm up is flat out? Some also used weights as a pre-race tone stimulus.[/i]