Well the graphs are based on training programs performed by Ben and others. You can plan how much you want to do and perhaps you’ll do it for 7 out of 10 sessions at the planned volume. You still want to have targets and for those targets to be progressive and realistic. Also if you plan 5x5x200kg on squat well maybe you’ll end up doing 5x5x190Kg or 4x5x200kg. It’s not so much of a difference that the plan was completely irrelevant.
Even though you know you won’t follow it 100% then it is a great exercise to get your head around what you want to do and how you will progress it in the future. I guess the problem with the numbers it that everyone takes them too seriously. It’s just a plan same as the map you read when you go to a new city doesn’t show you exactly how it really is just an approximation.
It’s kind of Zen like: first plan then learn to forget about the plan!
It’s difficult enough to instruct/implement event-specific mechanics without having the surface move beneath you. That’s why (especially, dry, soft) sand training has limited relevance to a high performance sprint training program.
Before he went to El Paso he trained in Curacao (Netherlands Antilles)
@ Utep he was under Coach Kitchens, but i think Wendell Prince (his coach from Curacao) is training him again…
No. The best coaches are getting the best athletes period as reputations allow athletes to follow them. True some coaches are better than others but do you think Bolt is bolt because of his training?
Let me say this, anyone can go to “U” and watch them run in the morning and see for themselves what they are doing. Block work on crappy grass (tendon stiffness hype) and poor technique with no rhyme or reason lifting. Stop talking about CNS fatigue and rebounding nonsense when it’s talent and liberal “situations”.
It looks to me that people want to believe that the Jamaicans are doing something organized in TRAINING when it’s more smoke and mirrors. I will make a call to someone who did train down there and share the great coaching methods. People want to believe as it gives them hope for similar results. I am not one of those believers.
I dont think sprinters are ever made (ex. take some guy who struggles to run 11s and make him run 9.8) but sprinters are never sub 10 on talent ONLY, not even low 10s. It takes work to get to even below world class no matter what talent you have.
Some good points (though please do not go there). One point about training is that you have to have the talent. But you also have to have the environment and the coach goes a long way to creating that. With a good coaching and support setup you are maximising the likelyhood of allowing tallent to develop to it’s fullest. If the environment is not there then it is hit and miss. I’m sure you could do a lot of things better than what Bolt does but at least in the last year for him everything has gone right to allow his talent to show through.
We’ve heard that many Jamaican sprinters do early morning sprints ( to avoid intense heat ) but I have read that early morning exercise is catabolic, rather than anabolic. Research shows that those who train in the morning get a higher cortisol response, and a lower testosterone response, compared to those who train in late afternoon, early evening.
So it seems to me that the Jamaican’s early monring runs cannot exploit the hormonal cycles as well.
Then again, many of them would have been up all night, before the early morning training, meaning that by the time they do their runing workout, their muscles are allready at their most supple. ( compared to those who train within 2 hours of waking up.) The more hours you leave between waking up and the training session, the more supple ( responsive? ), the muscles get.
Other questions:
What is different about Usain’s training this year, that he went from 10.0 to 9.6 ?
Yeah, he did a bit more block start work, but what else?
We’ve heard he’s done a bit more weights work this year, but unless that weights program is intense enough and consistent enough, it would not have made any significant differance to his power levels.
What are Usain Bolt’s training partners running for 100 or 200 meters this last two years?
I’ve read research on those lines as well. Heat or warm weather also has an effect on hormonal output, so what maybe catabolic in a cold climate maybe offset by a warmer climate near the equator. A higher body temperature augments growth hormone release and growth hormone in its own right is very anabolic even before it combines with Insulin to form IGF-1. Glen Mills (Bolt’s coach) is very aware of the importance of resistance training so its more than likely or safe to say that the weights would have been appropriate.
NO there are lots of athletes capable of running 9.9 secs, there are lots that I see competing in the UK but will they ever? NO because their coaches do not have the knowledge of the best coaches. There are also lots of coaches who can fuck up talented athletes but the 9.9 coaches time and time again manage their talent well and produce the goods.
Who mentioned “cns fatigue and rebounding”? Nonsense as you put it?
Glen Mills’ talk in London did not seem to come from a man who doesn’t organise the training of his athletes, and neither does Stephen Francis…
Yes it is fair to say that Bolt is more than likely to be an outlier in stats terms… but you still need a world class training program that has been planned.
I continue to find it funny how much arguing is done about what the Jamaican groups are doing. A whole lot of assuming going on. Everyone watch this clip and join right in. Anyone care to predict Asafa’s block periodized stepup schematics or effects of church on the ANS?
What did you see? Did you follow them for a year? Was you there for the majority of their sessions? How many track and weight sessions did you see? Please describe.
Powell was in a transmutation block when the pec injury went down during the bench press workout. Powell said in the video that most of his success on the track has came from 300m grass runs in the offseason, block training - strength workouts, and voodoo dolls.
Of course how did I miss that? Silly me!!! Hey you forgot to mention that he said he used a vibration platform and bungee jumped off bridges to develop his max speed! I didn’t miss that part.
It’s pretty clear what you and others on this thread are trying to insinuate; be brave say it and get it over and done with… if you are banned from the site then you are but atleast you was brave enough to say. If its not good coaching and management, and an organized training program then it can only be one thing eh? Is that not what you are alluding to? Lets just cut out all the bullshit be brave just say it.
Please tell us how you think the Jamaicans are running so fast? What do you think they are doing?
As far as I can tell, that video series contains basically all the knowledge that we have about Asafa’s training/group etc. Running hills on the streets at 5am, running for punishment, lifting, grass runs, dragging his feet out of the blocks, pillow talk…