I'm a first year teacher and I'm also going to be head coach this year. I teach at a really small school on an Indian reservation, and despite their familiarity with Billy Mills, all my runners want to be sprinters. I'm a distance runner, and there were a total of about 5 sprinters on my college team during my four years there, so I don't have a whole lot of familiarity with sprint training. I'd love to make these kids as fast. What do I need to be doing?
Can't coach fast. You can make fast faster, but you can't make slow, fast. All sprinters who are fast, were fast. Coaching just worked with the natural genetics.
Asafa Powell was never the "slow" kid.
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200 articles that are a good place to start
a good sprinter is made at conception. You can't put in what God left out.
Well that was pretty useful, thanks. So I don't need to bother doing anything, really? How about let's assume I'm making "fast faster," or at least slow less slow? How do I coach sprinters?
Most important thing for sprinters is their mechanics.
Do a lot of research and learn how to teach your sprinters to run.