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David Powell?s Top 50 Olympic Athletes List
2008-02-08 15:54:00 The world is full of lists. Everyone has their own list on who deserves to be the greatest Olympic athlete. Here is David Powell’s Top 50 Olympic Athletes List . 50. Merlene Ottey (Jamaica) 49. Frankie Fredericks (Namibia) 48. Gwen Torrence (United States) 47. Harry Hillman (United States) 46. Evelyn Ashford (United States) 45. Alain Mimoun (France) 44. Valeriy Borzov (Soviet Union) 43. Parry ... More About: Witty
Foam Roller Exercises
2008-02-07 15:21:00 Retail Price: $32.31 Sale Price: $29.08 6′ Round 3′ Long Foam Roller Last weekend, I was at the Death Valley Marathon and one of my athletes had a very tight IT band. Obviously, he suffers from IT band syndrome. And with the course having a very long downhill section, it was imperative that his IT ... More About: Videos , Recovery , Exercises , Wellness
3 Things You Probably Didn?t Know About Me
2008-02-07 10:01:00 I am celebrating the Chinese New Year with a break from Track, Coaching, Fitness and Health. I see a lot of bloggers do this type of post, so I thought to give it a shot. This is more entertaining, but they are true stories. In this series, I’ll focus on non Track events in ... More About: Witty , Things
Success from Brain-Training or Brain-Mapping
2008-02-07 04:39:00 This one is an inspiring and true story. Former Cricket player all-rounder Richard Petrie’s career was cut short after he tore his Achilles. Unlike Donovan Bailey, he never recovered fully. My guess is he didn’t have access to a hyperbaric chamber. As with most sports professionals, he ended up in sales. (I’ll write up ... More About: Coaching , Training , Success , Brain , Mapping
Too Much Soy? Supplementing with Methionine as a Natural Anti-Depressant
2008-02-06 15:15:00 One of my athletes jokingly commented how people who eat too much health foods, in particular, soy and soy protein are on anti-depressants and look like zombies. At first, I was irked, then I had to give it some thought. All my athletes supplement with whey or whey protein isolate. Whey contains all of the essential ... More About: Natural , Supplements , Wellness , Anti
Winner of the Track & Field Coaching Manual Contest
2008-02-05 07:00:00 Congratulations to Malcolm Price, the winner of the monster 425 page, AAF-CIF Track & Field Coaching Manual written by Edward Derse and Skip Stolley. Thanks to everyone for participating. If you didn’t win, don’t worry as I’ll be having another contest tomorrow. The chances of winning are pretty good (1 in 63) but those numbers ... More About: Contest , Winner
La Loma Track & Field High Altitude Training Camp
2008-02-05 05:34:00 This year’s 2008 La Loma Track and Field Festival will be held May 25, 28 and 31, 2008. This event is a series of competitions to be held at La Loma High Altitude Center in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. It is 3 hours by car from Mexico City and the La Loma Altitude Training Center is ... More About: Conferences , Camp
Kettlebell Training to Improve Your 40 Yard Dash Time
2008-02-03 15:39:00 This article is guest blogged by Joe Sarti. Joe blogged recently on the topic of Nutrition. This article could also be titled “Kettlebell Training to Increase Your Vertical Jump” or “Kettlebell Training to Run a Faster”. Why? 10 seconds flat, a 4.4 or faster 40 yard dash, a 36 inch + vertical jump… These events are all about ... More About: Time , Improve , Yard , Dash
5 Coaching Tips for Successful Basketball Drills
2008-02-02 15:00:00 This post was guest blogged by basketball coach and player Jeff Haefner, and owner of BreakthroughBasketball .com. This is reflective to Brian Schofield’s post on Basic Basketball Drills . These Tips can also be applied to running or any other sport, especially the last 3 tips. Tip #1 - Make the drill more competitive. Many players thrive on ... More About: Coaching
The Effect of Banked Curves on Running Mechanics
2008-02-01 15:29:00 This post was Guest Blogged by David J Pearsall PhD, an Associate Professor at the Department of Kinesiology & Physical Education, McGill University (my alma mater) INTRODUCTION Indoor running facilities have evolved with various configurations and sizes. Often tracks may incorporate banked curves in an attempt to compensate for body lean presumably to enhance running performance and ... More About: Running , Mechanics , Effect , Track and Field , Curves
Staying Low on a 40 Yard Dash or 100 Meter Start
2008-01-31 14:37:00 This article is guest blogged by Adarian Barr from Speedbynature.com What is implied when a sprinter is instructed to stay low at the start and for the first 10 yards or meters of a sprint race? Staying low has to do with the lean angle of the body from head to toe. The degree of being low ... More About: Coaching , Training , Start , Track and Field , Yard
Nutrition for Athletics: The 2007 IAAF Consensus Statement - Final Thoughts
2008-01-31 06:00:00 This summary is from the IAAF 2nd International Consensus Conference on “Nutrition for Athletics “ held in Monaco from April 18-20, 2007. Copies of the CD and booklet are available from the IAAF website www.iaaf.org. Nutrition for athletics: The 2007 IAAF Consensus Statement Athletics consists of a range of events requiring varying inputs of technique, strength, ... More About: Thoughts , Final
AAF-CIF Track & Field Coaching Manual Contest
2008-01-30 03:20:00 This monster 425 page manual was written by Edward Derse and Skip Stolley, the AAF/CIF Coaching Program Coordinator. Who is the AMATEUR ATHLETIC FOUNDATION? The Amateur Athletic Foundation is the organization created to manage Southern California?s endowment from the Olympic Games. Located in the historic Britt House since 1985, the AAF has committed more than $60 million ... More About: Contest , Track , Field , Manual
Speedendurance.com Mission Statement
2008-01-29 20:45:00 If you are reading this from your web browser, you can’t help but notice the ads on this page. However, if you subscribe to my RSS feed, you can read the latest articles without the ads, except maybe for 1 embedded ad here and there. Why So Many Ads? The mission statement of Speedendurance.com is to ... More About: Witty , Mission , Mission Statement , Statement , Missi
Sportsvite .com - Meet-up and Meet-me for Sports
2008-01-29 15:11:00 If you are familiar with Meet -up and Meet-me, you’ll certainly love Sports vite.com Ever wanted to join a team, but couldn’t find the right players? You tried Craigslist, but to no avail? Or, perhaps you moved to a new city and wanted to find a soccer, football or basketball team to join? Enter Sportsvite.com Sportsvite was started for ... More About: Conferences
Nutrition for Travel - IAAF Nutrition for Athletics
2008-01-29 09:34:00 This summary is from the IAAF 2nd International Consensus Conference on “Nutrition for Athletic s “ held in Monaco from April 18-20, 2007. Copies of the CD and booklet are available from the IAAF website www.iaaf.org. Nutrition for Travel Presenter: Tom Reilly (GBR) Travel across time zones and jet lag can have a profound effect on sleep, ...
Winner of the Herb McKenley DVD Contest
2008-01-28 18:00:00 To make this contest fair, I entered all the emails from both the RSS subscribers and the Speedendurance.com newsletter using Random.org. This site is also good for choosing lottery numbers. The Winner of the Herb McKenley DVD Contest is “Coachus”. “Coachus” is a RSS to email reader, and the sign-up doesn’t ask for your name, but ... More About: Promotions
Enviro-Sports Death Valley Marathon
2008-01-28 09:33:00 I’ll be visiting my buddy Dave Horning from Enviro-Sports Productions this weekend. Every year for the past 4 years, I make the trip to Las Vegas en route to Furnace Creek in Death Valley , California. But I don’t go in July; I go in February. It often coincides with the Super Bowl, so Hotel ... More About: Marathon , Conferences
Road Races Enforcing Bans on iPods - A Silly Rule?
2008-01-27 15:23:00 There are some good rules and some silly ones. For example, rings and earrings body piercing jewelry is prohibited in the high school system. I remember a high school female long jumper setting a PB, but when she raised her arms in jubilation, she exposed her belly button naval ring, and was thus disqualified. Then there ... More About: Witty , Silly , Road , Races , Ipods
Video on How to Improve Your 40 Yard Dash
2008-01-27 09:37:00 I really opened a can of worms in my quest to find the fastest 40 yard dash ever on video. Here is Jason Hadeed from Elite Athlete Training Systems and his 4 and a half minute video on how to improve your 40 yard dash. It’s fairly basic, but if you pick up a tip ... More About: Video , Improve , Yard , Dash
How to Get a Sport Job You Love
2008-01-26 15:49:00 There was a good article in the Wall Street Journal on the new National Football League CFO Anthony Notto and how his diverse financial background landed him a high level job at the NFL. Here are 8 good ideas to keep in mind when trying to land a job in the ever-so-competitive Sport s Industry Business, whether ... More About: Love , Coaching , Success
How to Start a Blog - Part 2
2008-01-25 21:24:00 In my article on How to Start a Blog for under 7 dollars, one thing I forgot to mention was disk storage. The old quota has just increased from 50 MB to 3 GB. This means you can now upload high-resolution photos, Word and Acrobat PDF documents, music and videos to your WordPress blog without ... More About: Technology , Part
Ready for Your 45?
2008-01-25 15:10:00 This post isn’t about your next 400 meter time or moving up to the next Masters age group in a few months. If you are a hockey fan (aren’t all Canadians hockey fans by birth?) you’ve seen the Nike Commercials for “What’s your 45?” or “Ready for Your 45?” This concept is based on the average shift ... More About: Training , Witty
Fastest 40 Yard Dash Time?
2008-01-24 21:14:00 The shortest distance the IAAF recognizes for indoor world record performances is the 50 meters (approx 54 yards) run in 5.56 seconds set by Canadian sprinter Donovan Bailey in 1996. The irony is he was considered a poor starter! The current world record for 60 meters is 6.39 seconds set twice by American Maurice Greene ... More About: Time , Yard , Dash
Michael Johnson?s Nike Golden Spikes - Step Aside!
2008-01-24 21:05:00 Nike designs new running spikes for Asafa Powell This article from The Jamaica Observer made me realize the power of branding in the marketing wars between Nike and Adidas. We all remember Michael Johnson for the Golden spikes in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. The first prototype won’t be revealed until Powell competes in his first race in ... More About: Nike , Witty , Track and Field
Innovations in Training and Nutrition - IAAF Nutrition for Athletics
2008-01-24 15:31:00 This summary is from the IAAF 2nd International Consensus Conference on “Nutrition for Athletic s “ held in Monaco from April 18-20, 2007. Copies of the CD and booklet are available from the IAAF website www.iaaf.org. Innovations in Training and Nutrition Presenter: John Hawley (AUS) The “train low, compete high” paradigm of glycogen levels has been challenged ...
Track Conversions for 50m, 60m, 200m, 300m, 400m
2008-01-23 21:37:00 This article is a bit dated, but it outlined the conversion factors for Track and Field during the Canadian CIAU (now called CIS) in the early 1990’s. The standards to qualify for Nationals were based on the 8th place performance from the previous year’s Finals. I am often surprised by the number of people asking for conversion ... More About: Track and Field
Navy SEAL Fitness Challenge
2008-01-23 15:00:00 Matt Bogdanowicz, current record holder of the 60 pull-ups World record, and former world record holder of the one hour pull-ups, will be attending the Navy SEAL Fitness Challenge in Los Angeles Feb 9-10, 2008. The Navy SEAL Fitness Challenge is a series of physical fitness events challenging athletes to maximize their performance in individual tests ... More About: Seal
Reggie Bush 40 Yard Dash - Fastest 4.33?
2008-01-23 05:03:00 Thanks to Adarian for sending me the link to the video. Everyone talks about the fastest 40 yard dash time. The fastest 40 yard I recall was the “4.17″ by Deion Sanders. If that is a hand time, that makes 4.2 (rounded up) or 4.44 FAT (by adding 0.24 from hand to FAT) The direct ... More About: Bush , Reggie Bush , Yard , Reggie , Dash
Win a Herb McKenley DVD Contest
More articles from this author:2008-01-22 14:57:00 This is his story. Jamacain Herb McKenley is the only man to have reached the finals of the Olympic 100 meters, 200 meters and 400 meters. McKenley was also the first man to run the quarter mile under 46 seconds and under 45 seconds. It took six tries in Olympic Finals to eventually win a Gold medal: 1948 Olympics ... More About: Contest , Promotions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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