Efraimson Bounces Back from Injury to Finish 3rd at the Pan Ams - Her Workouts Indicated 4 Flat Fitness
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Yep, any coach who projects publicly such marks is admitting the biggest error in coaching. Training to train instead of training to race. I’ve never seen such coaches produce consist elite, medal winning athletes. Rather they are always, “we’re really close” when asked and athletes never perform when it matters most because they are over focused on training and too tired or stressed to actually realize their fitness “potential”
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Workoutdouches wrote:
Yep, any coach who projects publicly such marks is admitting the biggest error in coaching. Training to train instead of training to race. I’ve never seen such coaches produce consist elite, medal winning athletes. Rather they are always, “we’re really close” when asked and athletes never perform when it matters most because they are over focused on training and too tired or stressed to actually realize their fitness “potential”
I understand your skepticism but, believe me, she looked relaxed in these workouts. I know it’s there. -
Workoutdouches wrote:
Yep, any coach who projects publicly such marks is admitting the biggest error in coaching. Training to train instead of training to race. I’ve never seen such coaches produce consist elite, medal winning athletes. Rather they are always, “we’re really close” when asked and athletes never perform when it matters most because they are over focused on training and too tired or stressed to actually realize their fitness “potential”
Look at Salazar - he is also prescribing extremely hard training, probably even harder than coach Hickey. Hickey is also consulting with Salazar on a regular basis. And his athletes are successful - on a world level. Pete Julian uses a very similar approach, super hard workouts.
You won't become world-class by doing soft Tinman-style training. At one point you gotta push the limits like Hassan, Koko, Farah, Rupp, etc. are all doing in their workouts. If Efraimson wasn't able to absorb the workouts and turn them into race-performances, they need to evaluate why. Maybe her nutrition wasn't optimal, or recovery methods, or the timing of workouts was wrong (too hard too early, or too close to race).
As long as everything is a learning experience, which I'm sure it is, they will do better in the future. Efraimson is still only 22, she has a very bright future ahead of her. -
Seems like an odd diagnosis as well, a "overly stretched ligament". Ligaments stretch more than 6% and they rupture, ligaments don't stretch. Just seems weird.
It just feels this thread and the article is one big excuse for why she didn't have a good season.
