As track coaches, we’re often understaffed even though
we have a huge number of kids and range of events to coach.

This year I have my largest group ever - over 55 sprinters
and just me to coach them.

And since this is just my second year with the team, I don’t
have any truly ‘experienced’ athletes who have grown up with
my system. So there is much to teach and learn.

If you’ve been reading, watching or listening to any of
my messages lately, you’ve heard me talk about studying
the patterns from Situation A and applying them to
Situation B.

And that’s just what I’ve been doing this winter.

You see, I’m the co-owner of a rapidly growing business.
And it’s more work than I ever imagined. Since the
track season started I’ve been going nonstop pretty much
14-15 hours per day.

I wish I was exaggerating that number for affect, but I’m
not.

Now I have a tendency to be a micro-manager. Right or
wrong, I don’t like people messing with what I’m doing
because I feel I can do a better job if I do it myself.

*Especially* when it comes to coaching.

But my new schedule doesn’t allow that.

So I’ve dramatically changed the way I run my sprint
group so it mirrors the way things are run in a successful
business.

And it’s all predicated on the fact that my program design
strategy and process is simple, flexible, objective *and*
planned out ahead of time.

If you don’t know exactly what you want to accomplish,
in what order and *why*, then everything I’m about to
say is distinctly impossible.

(If you’ve ever read Michael Gerber’s ‘E-Myth’, then this
will sound familiar)

So here is what you need to do:

Step 1. Establish your goals and objectives in advance

You don’t need to know that you want to do 8 x 200 @ 82%
three Tuesdays from now. But you do need to know what
training phase you’ll be in so you know what training
qualities need to be addressed. That way you can just
fill in the blanks instead of guessing.

Of course this requires knowing exactly what the training
phases are, what qualities need to be trained, in what
order and *why*…

Step 2. Teach your captains and upperclassmen how to coach

You have to create team leaders/assistant coaches
and the best place to start is with your captains and trustworthy upperclassmen.

I don’t have time to walk people through every speed drill
every time we do them. The same goes with half hurdle
trail legs, starting blocks, run-run-jumps and burpees.

I expect my team leaders to learn them (so I teach them
specifically) so they can teach the rest of the team how
to do it. From there I can easily move from group to
group and spot check the kids to make sure things are
going right.

First I teach the individuals, then I manage the practice.

And I’m very confident that my athletes could actually
do a better job teaching most skills than most track
coaches out there at the developmental levels.

This approach teaches the leaders responsibility,
authority and helps them learn the skills better.
Because you get better at performing a skill when you
have to explain it, demonstrate it and correct it.

Of course you already know that because you would
*never* expect an athlete to perform a skill without
showing them how to do it first…

Would you?

So instead of getting stuck teaching blocks for the 947th
time and ignoring hurdles, long jump and the 400 workout
going on around the track, I can slide from group to
group and give *everyone* attention.

Because I:

Step 3: Manage the team, don’t micromanage the team

Yesterday I had an intensive tempo workout, special
endurance 2 workout, beginner hurdlers, ‘advanced’
hurdlers, starting blocks, weight room and GS circuits
going on at different times in different places.

That’s impossible for one person to do and do well. But
not when you shift your perspective. Instead of trying
to do it all I:

- put two injured athletes in charge of running the
instensive tempo workout (which was, of course, organized
in advance so they didn’t get confused and screw it up).

- ran the special endurance 2 workout and worked with
the ‘advanced’ hurdlers (and spot checked the tempo
workout)

- had upperclassmen teach/review blocks (and I just came
by to make sure there were no major problems. There weren’t
because the kids were taught well…)

- had team leaders run the circuit workout and experienced
athletes went into the weight room.

Because I teach everything correctly and make kids give
and interpret feedback while learning, they’re actually
quite good at teaching and spotting errors.

In themselves and others.

Because I organize things on a daily, weekly, monthly
and season wide basis, I can quickly put groups together
in an organized fashion instead of running around like
a chicken with my head cut off.

And I can manage a group of 50+ kids and get everyone
the attention they need…by myself.

And still have every athlete run lifetime bests in every
event…every season.

But it starts with a solid foundation. A foundation built
on knowing exactly where, when, what, why and how I
want to structure my program design. Otherwise what I
do would be impossible.

So if you want to make the impossible possible, it starts
here:

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You’re less than 3 minutes away from gaining an
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the workouts you need for an entire season - from warmup
to cooldown, from 55-400 meters.

Program Design for Track and Field Sprinters

I was at a track meet this past weekend when a parent
walked up to me and asked…

“Is it really true that you can’t coach speed? Because
that’s what I always hear - that speed can’t be taught
or coached”.

Huh?

Isn’t it almost 2009? Do people still really believe this
stuff? After all, last year before I started coaching
the athlete, this parent’s child could barely get on the
soccer field during games.

After I got there she wins a state championship in track and
makes the league All Star team this year in soccer and
plays in that postseason All Star game.

In fact, this athlete emailed me during soccer tryouts
this past summer to tell me how her coach commented on
how much faster she was.

So if speed can’t be taught then where was this athlete’s
speed the month before I got there?

I notice the same problems with athletes from every
sport (especially girls).

And here is the main problem:

You can’t become a better athlete by *just* playing more
of your sport.

You have to actually *train* like an athlete not just
play in another soccer league for the third season in
a row or join your fifth basketball team of the winter.

It makes me sad when parents tell me they want their kids
to get better at their sport/s but they don’t have time
to train because they’re always in season!

OK! I guess you don’t really want your kids to get better
at their sports then!

Because something has to give.

The reason speed (and athletic ability in general) can
be coached and improved (regardless of age, sport or gender)
is because developing athletes (ages 8-18) have insufficient
speed, strength, flexibility, coordination and endurance.

Why? Because all they do is play their sport year round
or bounce from sport to sport without actually spending
a reasonable amount of time developing all 5 qualities
I mentioned above.

Think about it for a second. If your athletes *only*
focused on improving strength, they’d be better at their
sport. Any sport. Every sport.

If they improved in all 5 of these areas, they would be
so much more efficient as athletes they’d be better at
every skill required for their sport.

They’d run faster, jump higher, change directions quicker,
throw farther, hit harder, etc.

Because I will let you in on a secret. The vast majority
of the competition is not training like athletes. They’re
just playing a lot of their sport and that’s not how
the best programs are run.

Because it doesn’t really make any sense.

If you really want your athletes to get better, don’t sign
them up for another team in another league in the same
sport they just finished.

And don’t spend all your practice time running plays and
working on ball skills.

Develop their speed, strength, flexibility, coordination
and endurance and they’ll simply outperform the
competition in every phase of the game.

It’s just that simple.

Here, my friend, is the step by step program that shows
you how to safely and effectively build faster, stronger,
healthier and flat out better athletes:

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We’ve all heard that question before.

It’s the first thing your sprinters ask after you tell them
what the workout is.

It seems like a simple question. And a fair one.

But how did *you* come up with the answer?

Because if you do too many you risk an injury, overtraining,
burnout and a bad performance at the next meet.

If you don’t do enough than you aren’t challenging your
athletes and they aren’t going to continue to get better.

How many intervals or repetitions is *the* big question
every coach has to answer every single day.

So, again, how did you come up with the answer?

Pick a number out of a hat?
Throw a dart at the wall?
Just do 6 or 8 like you always do?

Now that you’ve got your magic number, then what?

Who does it apply to? Everyone does 6? Just upperclassmen?

After all, a fourth year senior should be doing more than
a first year freshman. Or a first year senior for that
matter.

Shouldn’t they?

If you’re running ‘one size fits all’ workouts with your
athletes then your program has some serious holes in it.

Because you’re only helping some of your athletes…

…and hurting the rest.

If you want to run a truly successful sprints program,
you need to know *why* you’ve chose that particular
number of intervals or reps.

When you know *why* you should do 6, but not 8, your
sprinters get better.

You *must* minimize the guess work in your coaching if
you want to see consistent improvements in every athlete.

Fortunately for you…

I’ve already done all the work for you in Complete Program
Design for Sprinters.

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There is a consistently simple answer to this question
and most others.

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If you coach sprinters, this is EXACTLY what you’ve
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Program Design for Track and Field Sprinters

I expect a lot from my athletes.

And I always feel a bit guilty and hypocritical when I demand excellence from my kids, but I know that I’m not practicing what I preach on my own time.

Because we’ve all been there.

And I’ve also seen what kind of shape a lot of coaches are in these days.

So I was pretty excited when my friend and colleague Craig Ballyntince let me know about his newest program.

Not only is Craig dishing out one of his most embarrassing stories, but he’s also giving you free DVD’s and a 1-Year Platinum TT Membership.

It turns out that just about 15 years ago, Craig was heading down the wrong path…eating and drinking too much and not working out.

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