I am at a small midwest high school and have been given the 400m squad to coach from next academic year.
What are the key concepts I need to be aware of to coach 400m?
I am at a small midwest high school and have been given the 400m squad to coach from next academic year.
What are the key concepts I need to be aware of to coach 400m?
Books and PDF of Yuri Verkhoshansky, Charlie Francis, Clyde Hart.
I know Hart is a 400m coach but has a lot of criticism, especially for younger than college
The other are not 400m coaches?
Verkhoshansky is the best for the programming-periodization part and the strenght part, the principles of Cfrancis are universal, there you just have to lengthen the distances. The works are well calssifield byWinckler-Gambetta.
Base structure is three blocks conjugated in sequence: A, B and C, distances-load progression from short to long. If you’re really interested, I’ll show you the means of the three blocks.
wannaBgreat wrote:
I know Hart is a 400m coach but has a lot of criticism, especially for younger than college
The other are not 400m coaches?
I agree that Hart's training can be a bit much for HS kids, but I think getting some background information on it is still helpful. I do use some of his stuff when I have XC kids that moves down to 400/800 for track.
Other good resources:
- Sprinters Compendium - This is a compilation of sprint training by Ryan Banta. It's huge but is a phenomenal resource. I love that it's filled with a opposing viewpoints. Every school has a different starting point, strengths, and weaknesses and I felt this really helped me analyze where we were at, where we needed to improve, and which programs would help address those needs.
-Tony Holler's Feed the Cats system - This is more short sprint focused but is a great avenue for training top end speed. I think it's a great system for getting fast buy in from kids and is awesome for multi-sport kids. I like his stuff for my new sprinters and multi-sport kids that are also balancing a club schedule.
- Ryan's Banta's Critical Mass system - This is much higher volume and a lot more complex but it gets great results. You have to be hyper organized to pull it off. I've slowly been adding more of this style training to our program but I honestly couldn't have implemented a lot of it correctly in my first few years of coaching.
Wait, I am not native English speakers and I don’t know the age of school degrees in USA, what age of athetes do you mean?
Dimitry wrote:
Wait, I am not native English speakers and I don’t know the age of school degrees in USA, what age of athetes do you mean?
High school in the US is typically ages 14-18.
yes, the books of Ray Banta are good and they follow the Wincker-Gambetta classification.
Dimitry:
In the USA, these are the age ranges
Middle school - 11-14 years old
High school - 14-18 years old
College/University - 18-22 years old
OK; 14-15-16 is already different from 17-18, around 17 we can go with lactic works and overloaded on the column on strength program.
For the 400m, you need to train your athletes in top speed, speed endurance, special endurance and also endurance in general. Top speed and speed endurance would be similar to how 100/200m sprinters train. Special endurance is specific to long sprints.
Coach! Thanks for the kind words on the book the Sprinter's Compendium and the Critical Mass System. If folks are interested they should check out my Podcast Companions of the Compendium where I talk with long sprint experts Sean Burris and Mike Hurst. Along with a lot of coaches who are short sprint experts!
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