I want to know what to do next year with a 15 years old sprinter his time is:
100m: 11,16
200m: 22,90
400m: 50,79
spécialized in 400 or 100???
what i should do???
thats a tuff one… his 100 and 400 times match up rather well but his 200 time does not. he should be around 22.50.
he should and he will do 22,5 this summer
I don’t know I could be wrong, but he’s still at a pretty young age, does the training really need to switch dramatically to specialize to one specific event. Why not just progress for this past years training? The training you have set up for him appears to be working.
more in speed or in resistance?
What do you mean in speed or resistance? I don’t quite understand the question.
Originally posted by DuGaL400
[b]I want to know what to do next year with a 15 years old sprinter his time is:100m: 11,16
200m: 22,90
400m: 50,79spécialized in 400 or 100???
what i should do??? [/b]
I am also 15 and run the same events
100:10.86
200:21.93
400:48.67
I think that you shouldn’t specialize in just 2 of the events. I try all 3. Our coach has it where we are doing explosiveness, speed endurance, Speed resistance, weight training etc. and it helps over all. In the long run most people specialize in just 2 events but at this age he should be gaining as much experience as possible.
I agree with waynehobley (glad to see you on this board) on this one. At a young age you don’t want to get too specific too early. Let him grow and mature mentally and as an athlete and when he gets to college let him specialize. You shouldn’t restrict his growth by specializing him too early. Let him grow and have fun and by the time he reaches college he will be ready to choose which is best for him (with the coaches’ help of course 
).
I say train him for speed. At 15 yrs of age his body is in the time of determining what his fiber priority is going to be in his body. Following the CFTS will grant him phenomenal acceleration, great top end speed and good speed endurance. Most people I know training 400 will add miles upon miles of slow trudging jogs and encourage a promising young talent to be predominantly slow twitch. Remember the faster they become, the greater speed to endure with = the superior time and performance.
kids around this age need a good coach to let him/her excel later in life.firstly i would look at his/her technique and refine it while the going is alot easier,its harder to teach an old dog new tricks.any major technical flaws should be addressed now.
have you talked to the athlete yourself and asked the athlete what he/she admires to do and what event they enjoy most.if the athlete likes the 100m well the fires going at the moment and should be blazing with good coaching in the next few years.
having an athlete do an event were there is no interest is like a damp squib.make the athlete decide and point out or guide him/her with your knowledge.