Nico MF Young - 7:56.96 3k

Were you running as fast as Young?

Newbury Park is in the weight room 3 days a week. They did a live feed online weeks back and someone asked the coach and he said they do all their supplemental training in the weight room. He said ankle, hip, glute strengthening and other stuff I can't remember.

CA HS Coaching Newbie wrote:

Newbury Park is in the weight room 3 days a week. They did a live feed online weeks back and someone asked the coach and he said they do all their supplemental training in the weight room. He said ankle, hip, glute strengthening and other stuff I can't remember.

Yeah, they have extensive dynamic warm-ups as well.

I think they know what they are doing. The only legit criticism is that it just seems like a ton of VO2 max work, but it's working for them and they appear to be peaking properly so at this point I have no issue with their training, clearly they are on top of things.

mytwocents wrote:

Based on what evidence? My entire HS track team was in the weight room 2-3x a week, including the distance squad. We didn't lift heavy, but we ensured well-rounded strength.

I was fortunate to have a former collegiate sprinter as an assistant coach, and I definitely worked with him on an ongoing basis on form, strength training, speed drills, and flexibility.

It’s not the same as weight lifting, but my brother dropped quite a bit of time in his 1600 and got down to 4:15 from 4:35 the year before. He said the single biggest contributor was playing a bunch of basketball, which has a plyometric aspect to it. He also worked on being able to dunk until he actually could.

Nico looked like a little boy in the race, kid got worked by a bunch of pros. Even though he ran fast still was Dead MF Last, hit the weight room kid.

Will get slower at altitude not strong enough to handle the elevation

Nico is amazing so amazing.

thats bc you gey

Is there a link to a race video?

Cheserek 3000m time was 8:05 in his 839 2 mile national high school record. So if my math is correct that's about a 830 2 mile conversion.

wolfhoundboxer wrote:

Cheserek 3000m time was 8:05 in his 839 2 mile national high school record. So if my math is correct that's about a 830 2 mile conversion.

8:35 for 2-miles

Cheserek wasn't sprinting to the finish, he was simply passing 3k in 8:05. He still had his last 200m sprint left to go.

Porterhouse wrote:

wolfhoundboxer wrote:

Cheserek 3000m time was 8:05 in his 839 2 mile national high school record. So if my math is correct that's about a 830 2 mile conversion.

8:35 for 2-miles

Cheserek wasn't sprinting to the finish, he was simply passing 3k in 8:05. He still had his last 200m sprint left to go.

Nico came though the 3k at Arcadia in 8:11 and closed his last 200m in 28-29

What’s your point?

Did he really say that he took one day off after NXN and continued training?

Predictor wrote:

Did he really say that he took one day off after NXN and continued training?

From what Nico said in an interview was he took a week down ( a few miles a day) then started back.

Seems reasonable

In an Instagram live Nico's coach says his highest mileage week was 69

Porterhouse wrote:

8:35 for 2-miles

8:56.96 x 1.08 = 8:35

mytwocents wrote:

My entire HS track team was in the weight room 2-3x a week, including the distance squad. We didn't lift heavy, but we ensured well-rounded strength. I was fortunate to have a former collegiate sprinter as an assistant coach, and I definitely worked with him on an ongoing basis on form, strength training, speed drills, and flexibility.

And after all that nonsense, Nico Young ran away from all of them.

webb, Nearly won that race

the REAL truth 89 wrote:

Predictor wrote:

Did he really say that he took one day off after NXN and continued training?

From what Nico said in an interview was he took a week down ( a few miles a day) then started back.

Seems reasonable

So zero time off? I can’t imagine many would agree that’s “reasonable”.