Mia Brahe-Pedersen does NOT skip leg day

Why don’t you reach out and help, douche, if you want to help America? You think Ryan Wilson sucks?

Well especially with her Nike sponsorship now, she's going to be getting the very best hands-on expert support. Whatever she needs or doesn't need to do re: form or weight, she'll be advised by people with access to a lot more exposure to and data about her unique case than anybody on here has. So as fun as it is to opine and criticize online, I think the most rational thing is to trust that everything is already coming into place to help her become the best she can.

Nobody will discuss weight. Big is beautiful today.

I’ve never seen someone use units of speed as opposed to pace or better still just time for sprint distances.

So you must be one of the fifty thousand. You have very little knowledge of this girl's connections in the sport.

Also, as to weight, she is most likely going to gain more weight in the form of upper body muscle as she trains for the future not loose it.

As for her mechanics, the worst part of her 100m is her start. Compared to the pros, she gets absolutely left in the blocks. Fixing this one aspect alone puts her in the 10.9x range. Let her and the coaches she chooses determine her potential.

She is likely at her proper weight but not the best ratio.

You're making my point for me.

I've seen them called parameters and metric thresholds and features and criteria, but whatever you want to call them, at the end of the day, a woman trying to run under 11.00 or a girl trying to run under 12.50 or a guy trying to run sub 10.50 has to be able to reach a given speed. The gross majority of training, even by alleged short-to-long coaches, is focused on maintenance of max velocity and trying to limit how much the athlete slows down (have to finish strong!) instead of increasing the athlete's top end speed.

I will leave you with some of the paraphrased philosophy of the leading European sprint coach (who does, in fact, know what he's doing) -- "I know that, to place at a world championship in the 400, a man has to run 32 seconds for 300m and a woman has to run 36 seconds. I know that, to hit those times, they have to be able to run such and such in a 200m, which really means they have to run such and such in a 100m, which really means they have to have a flying 80m of this, which means their max speed has to be at least this."

There are no amount of intensive tempo runs or Chris Korfist/Tony Holler 23 second drills that can take a girl who can only run 25.5 in the 200m and get her to 53.5 in the 400m. Even Clyde Hart would say this (whose training, in fact, makes all the sense in the world for a segment of elites).

Ryan Wilson, or Bailey/John Parks?

MBP is at a major crossroads. Her talent is obviously world class. She could and should be a medalist in 2028.

No one that strong should have a block start that bad. It's evidence of system dysfunction that her support staff has either created or allowed.

She is usually the tallest girl on the line (5'10ish?). I guess people can debate about how cut a high school girl should be but she is naturally going to carry a lot more weight than the typical sprinter, and getting to top speed is always going to be more of a challenge than for someone with shorter levers and less weight to move.

That said, athletic.net indicates she ran her first race in 2018 for a middle school team and still has a year of high school ahead, so 5-6 years of training and races (with Covid in the middle of it). I am not sure how perfect one should reasonably expect her to be at this point. I suspect most pros still had quite a bit to work on physically, technically, and mentally when they were 17, no?

Are you saying that Bolt was the thickest runner with the least top end speed because he was the tallest?

Yes, by function of her height, she will carry more mass, and I'm not saying she's like Zion Williamson, but that extra weight she is carrying at her midsection is opening her up to far more risk than our best sprint prospect should have. There's very good research showing a 200 calorie a day deficit is gentle enough to not adversely affect matters of strength and CNS gains, but it would be a year to lose twenty pounds at that rate. She'd be better served losing as much as possible between the end of her season and the start of her next GPP, and then let the rest drip off. I'd be aggressive with meal timings with respect to muscle protein synthesis, but I'm already saying too much.

We don't have to expect her to be perfect, but you could take an average powerlifter (not weightlifter) and give him or her a better first two steps than what she currently has, in under two hours. The first step is the only step where squatting has the biggest correlation with velocity, and strong athletes who are complete blank slates with track would not be any worse and, likely, would be better.

What I am saying is…what I typed…but then I shouldn’t assume English is your first language.

Sorry, I have no idea WTF you are talking about.

Your hyperbolic “powerlifter-to-worldclass starter in two hours” assertion aside, I actually think you are making sense. But I question how much will resolve itself as she naturally evolves past her teenage years versus something that really needs to be addressed in the near-term.

Just better than her current start, which would be like being better than Shaquille O'Neal at free throws.

Thank you for consideration.

I'm skeptical that these problems resolve themselves. This season was the first one she was lifting during it. They didn't find the exercises with transference, and when she wasn't lifting in the previous years, they weren't fixing themselves. Likely, she's been cued improperly and now has a broken motor engram. I would spend a week trying to make any gains, fail, and then switch her feet in the blocks to start from a blank slate.

She developed herniated discs in her back from she really poorly conceived weight training prescribed by Rana Reider.

Maybe you don't know who Boot is. He holds the world record. He is taller than other sprinters. It is amazing that he could accomplish that since you said taller runners carry more weight and have a harder time getting to tope end speed. He likely would have run 8.9 if only he had been 5'3".

Do you have any further details to share? Those former Charlie Francis forum posters get great results but then you hear things like this with some regularity.

My only knowledge of the Schippers situation comes from someone who spoke to Bart Bennema about her. Bart blamed Rana, who seems to leave destruction is his wake wherever he goes.

I always thought Reider was more of a Loren Seagrave guy than a Charlie Francis guy?

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