Barry Ross has crazy ideas and he has nothing to do with Felix now.
His ideas don't make sense, check sprint message boards for more info.
Does anyone do any lifts to failure anymore?
This is what Bobby Kersee actually has her doing now:
Physioball Bridge
Lie with back on floor and heels on physioball with straight legs
Without arching back, raise body until only shoulder blades touch floor. Form straight line from heels to shoulders
Lower with control; repeat for specified reps
Sets/Reps: 4x15
Clean and Jerk
Grip bar just outside athletic stance with shins touching bar
Assume deadlift position with back locked, shoulders up, and abs and chest flexed
Begin initial pull by extending hips and knees
When bar is just above knees, explode upward by forcefully shrugging with straight arms and fully extending hips, knees and ankles
Pull bar up, keeping it close to chest
Drop under bar and catch it across front of shoulders in athletic stance with bent knees
Explode upward and drive bar overhead by extending hips, knees and ankles
Land in split stance and catch bar overhead with arms locked
Sets/Reps: 4x8
Squat
Begin in athletic stance with bar on back, feet just wider than hip distance and toes pointing out slightly
Keeping weight back on heels, initiate movement by driving hips back
Squat with control and good posture until tops of thighs are parallel to ground, keeping knees behind toes
Drive upward out of squat position, keeping eyes up and chest out
Sets/Reps: 4x15
V-up
Lie with back on floor, holding med ball above head
Keeping arms and legs straight, raise upper body and legs until feet meet ball at midline of body
Lower with control; repeat for specified reps without allowing heels or ball to touch floor
Sets/Reps: 4x15
Physioball Back Extension
Lie with stomach on physioball so body is over ball; keep hands behind head
Keeping stomach tight, raise upper body until only lower abdomen is touching ball
Lower with control; repeat for specified reps
Sets/Reps: 4x15
It's all relatuvely conventional hypertrophy work. There are some secrets. She runs hills. She's actually lighter than listed--Bobby has been trying to put lean mass on, but her weight has actually gone the other way. The main key is a LOT of special endurance track sessions--sometimes 2 and 3 sprint sessions in a day--and quite clearly it has paid off.
The Barry Ross stuff is still around, and it is still garbage.
What exactly is garbage about it? Sounds like power lifter training, in which they too try to get stronger without gaining weight.
Seems like Grade A garbage, having produced a 2 time World Champion who is only 21.
Barry Ross has crazy ideas and he has nothing to do with Felix now.
His ideas don't make sense, check sprint message boards for more info.
That particular article is very poorly written, and I myself ripped it to shreds in a debate with him a couple of years ago, but "his" ideas are actually spot on, and distance runners would do well to adopt them
BK has her running lots of long intervals (up to 600m).
That particular article is very poorly written, and I myself ripped it to shreds in a debate with him a couple of years ago, ....[/quote]
Yeah, and YOU are someone we should listen to, suuuuuure...... You're a stable, logical, sensible type of guy, right?
Frank N. Stein, MD wrote:
That particular article is very poorly written, and I myself ripped it to shreds in a debate with him a couple of years ago, ....
Yeah, and YOU are someone we should listen to, suuuuuure...... You're a stable, logical, sensible type of guy, right?[/quote]
At least he's never drinken beer from a can.
COCK AND EPO
coach64 wrote:
COCK AND EPO
yeah, my COCK and my dEPOsit
get it? HA! I slay me!
The Weyand study points out simple physics: F = ma. Move mass to the other side of the equation:
F/m = a
This is simple physics. It boggles my mind why ALL runners are not taught to increase the force they apply to the ground. It needs to be done with strength and technique.
a=acceleration?
Maybe acceleration is not what distance runners need? More interested in efficiency (maintaining speed) and fuel and energy utilization?
it doesn\'t hurt training in the olympic athletics capitol of the world, los angeles. usc and ucla have been the hottest area for olympians as long as i can remember.
Barry Ross is an idiot. He claims to have coached her and to be the reason behind her sucess but really he only handled her weight lifting for a couple years in high school and then she left him. He was / is basically a high school strength coach who claims to be an expert in sprinting just because the most talented female sprinter ever went to his high school. Felix and Kersee laugh at what he did with her. His claim to fame has completely distanced himself from him. His ridiculous claims were laid to waste on both charliefrancis.com and elitetrack.com.
Coach D wrote:
She's actually lighter than listed--Bobby has been trying to put lean mass on, but her weight has actually gone the other way.
Good she ignored that control freak twit and went back to training the way Barry Ross taught her in the first place.
Result: WORLD CHAMPION
Re: the Barry Ross method
-A word of warning to all with slight builds attempting to do heavy deadlifts... The result is often injury.
If you are really a coach, with all due respect, please have a discussion with the physics teachers about this subject.
I can identify wind resistance and friction caused by the foot as forces working against the body in motion.
Perhaps more importantly, the fact the center of mass is always changing direction on every stride is by definition acceleration.
I've read the threads on both charliefrancis and elitetrack, and no one has managed to lay a glove on Ross.