At the same time as the IAAF World Champs in London, a coaching conference was put on. I was lucky enough to go along to two days - taking in a session on speed and one on strength. Here's part of Loren Seagrave's speed presentation. It's audio, but I have added some captions and tried to divide it up into sections. So areas covered are: Successful Coaching; Characteristics of fast Sprinting. The latter is the largest part and includes - what makes a sprinter fast (overcoming load, anthropomorphic measures, step frequency, start airtime, muscle fibre, neural considerations and weight training. The info will be of benefit to coaches and athletes and sports science students looking to learn more about the theory of speed development.
1 окт 2024
