Bill Aris Training Talk 4/12/2010

What kind of workouts do your runners complete in the weight room? Are any in high school weight training classes, and if so, do you have specific workouts for them to work on outside of team lifting sessions?

Joe, Bloomington, IN

obviously not true, but I know two of their runners well, have run with a few of the guys at training camps and just wanted to state facts as they are.

What if any standards are there for the Stotan running program?

1) What did you have to do/what was the experience trying to implement your Stotan program when you first began to get the kids to buy into it?

2) What does you summer training program look like?

-Mileage

-Workouts

-Number of practices

-Team Atmosphere

-Any camps/trips

Thanks!

Jeff

Cary, IL

Is this too many questions? ;)

What advice would you give in regard to communicating with parents, especially in a successful program such as your own?

What is the basic training philosophy of your program? Include mileage (and progression of mileage) as appropriate.

What determines your training groups for your team?

How many different workouts/groups will you have going on in one practice/day?

What is YOUR favorite workout for your team?

What is YOUR TEAM'S favorite workout?

Do you have a core, or weekly workout, that drives your program?

What faster paced workout do you consider to be the key to achieving success in your program? For example, repeat quarters, 800's, kilometers or miles.

Specifically, what does your team usually do the day before a meet?

Specifically, what does your team usually do the day of a meet?

What changes have you made in the past few years that have improved your coaching/brought your program into national prominence?

What advice would you give a new cross country coach? An experienced cross country coach?

Given the amount of time necessary to develop a championship team, how do you accomodate the other legitimate needs of your student-athletes: i.e. school work, family life, social life, jobs, etc.? Do you have athletes that compete in other sports throughout the year or even in the fall?

Is even pacing going to get the best results for an individual or for the team? How do you have your team train for that?

Do you train through certain races or do you treat every meet as important as any other?

Do you encourage pack running? Why or why not?

What do you do to maximize the possibility of peaking for the most important meet of the season (perhaps describe what you do the week of the national championship)

How do you keep your individual athletes or team from being debilitated by nervousness before the biggest meet of the season?

What do you do DURING a meet (cheer, communicate to athletes, take splits?)

What are your most effective recruiting techniques?

What do you look for in a potential cross country athletes (maybe not your conventional distance runner?)

Do you do anything special with your 4th or 5th runner (who some might argue are the most critical parts of a team)?

What do you do if you have an athlete who has not been able to put in the preferred summer mleage?

What do you do, if anything, to help correct athletes with poor mechanics or form?

How do you teach your runners to become great competitors?

With so much work, time and routine involved in training, how do you make cross country fun?

Any specific teambuilding techniques you would care to share?

How do you utilize the winter months, especially in New York State, for training?

How do you ensure that athletes run enough during the summer to adequately prepare for the season's start?

How do you define 'speed training' and how do you use it in practice?

What cross training does your team use? Is it only for the injured or do you use it wit the entire team to prevent injuries?

What other steps might you use to prevent injuries? How doyou distinguish between serious and non-serious injuries?

What do you tell your athletes about nutrition?

What weight training or core training does your team utilize?

Do you believe in the hard/easy day approach? If not, how long do you believe an athlete needs to recover after a hard workout? What is an easy day for your team?

What mental coaching techniques have you found to be useful?

Describe a time you deviated from conventional wisdom in your program on what produces a winning program and what you believe has been the result?

Employee #1 wrote:

Robert has lined up his next guest for Training Talk, F-M coach Bill Aris. Read the post below or read our announcement at this link:

http://www.letsrun.com/2010/ttalk0409.php

At what time will this be.

4/12/2010 08:00 PM EDT

http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=72655&cmd=tc