400m_bfhs wrote:
Lashawn Merritt had changed coaches from Dwayne Miller to Loren Seagrave and had run essentially the same time under both coaches. Now he has changed to Brooks Johnson and finally had a breakthrough even after a major injury at the beginning of the season. Does anyone have any idea on what he did in training to get to his PR of 43.65?
Doped
Curious.. wrote:
exthrower wrote:Merritt and Oliver...both dopers....and liars....and cheats....
Do...you...have...any...evidence..?
Merritt tested positive for dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) in 2010.
I like Brooks Johnson's blog, but I'm glad I don't have to work under him. He'd be a good guy to hire as an assistant or consultant; his philosophy can help in certain times and places. As a program though, you'd have to be as eccentric an athlete as he is a coach to be successful.
justthefacts wrote:
Nice. Shows the type of person you are....
By the way, Brooks also coached Martin McGrady to a world indoor 600 yd record on a very slow Madison Square Garden 11 laps to the mile track and that was no joke.
How many quality athletes have you trained? Name names....yea, get back to me when you develop a world class athlete.
When's your next blog update? Last post was in early June?
coach d wrote:
Brooks is VERY much a speed guy who originally competed in 60m indoors. Merritt had been doing more aerobic stuff with Miller, including mile repeats in the fall that he maintained with Seagrave until doing faster track training starting in January I believe.
Merritt used to be faster in 200, but got about a half second slower in that event, and now he's racing a guy who used to be a 200 specialist. Brooks is certainly going to put more emphasis on 100/200 speed.
Strength != speed
Mile repeats are needed for 400m runners
35% of the 400m is aerobic
On my HS teams, the better 400m runners were always the 800m based runners, not the sprinters
The 800m runners did distance type training and touched on speedwork, the sprinters just did speed workouts and never any aerobic work
NOP Skeptic wrote:
coach d wrote:Brooks is VERY much a speed guy who originally competed in 60m indoors. Merritt had been doing more aerobic stuff with Miller, including mile repeats in the fall that he maintained with Seagrave until doing faster track training starting in January I believe.
Merritt used to be faster in 200, but got about a half second slower in that event, and now he's racing a guy who used to be a 200 specialist. Brooks is certainly going to put more emphasis on 100/200 speed.
Strength != speed
Mile repeats are needed for 400m runners
35% of the 400m is aerobic
On my HS teams, the better 400m runners were always the 800m based runners, not the sprinters
The 800m runners did distance type training and touched on speedwork, the sprinters just did speed workouts and never any aerobic work
Could be that the sprinters weren't being trained so well.
you said the key phrase... HS
Sorry, but it isn't that way at the big boy level.
Johnson has coached Olympians since 1960. His first was 1960 110-meter hurdles silver medalist Willie May. Since then, notable Olympians he has coached include Esther Stroy , Evelyn Ashford and Chandra Cheesborough. He is still an active coach with a small select group of athletes that includes Justin Gatlin , David Oliver ,Jason Richardson and Lashawn Merrit.
Johnson Discusses his training philosophy here :
[quote]lifeoftrack wrote:
Johnson has coached Olympians since 1960. His first was 1960 110-meter hurdles silver medalist Willie May. Since then, notable Olympians he has coached include Esther Stroy , Evelyn Ashford and Chandra Cheesborough. He is still an active coach with a small select group of athletes that includes Justin Gatlin , David Oliver ,Jason Richardson and Lashawn Merrit.
Johnson Discusses his training philosophy here : /quote]
Nice try, dickhead.