Coaching a fast sprinter to become great at long distance

She has all what it takes , the body, the speed and the stamina . And I have done a similar "case" before with a male runner

with 47 sec at 400m . I know it functions !

Coach JS may have not gotten so much push back if he would have simply stated he was transitioning an 11.3 100m athlete to 800m. If a few men have gone from 44.xx 400m to 1:43.xx 800m, I do not want to hear anyone state: too many fast twitch for 800m. See 800m w.r. holder, Jarmila K. Her 100m p.b., 11.09

Is she native Swedish or an immigrant?

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SDSU Aztec wrote:

11.3 is probably too many FTs for even the 800. Long distance is a pipe dream for her.

Coach JS may have not gotten so much push back if he would have simply stated he was transitioning an 11.3 100m athlete to 800m. If a few men have gone from 44.xx 400m to 1:43.xx 800m, I do not want to hear anyone state: too many fast twitch for 800m. See 800m w.r. holder, Jarmila K. Her 100m p.b., 11.09

He stated that he wanted to transformer into a great long distance runner. How did this become mid-distance? Defend the original claim instead of changing it.

otter wrote:

You can train 2A fibers aerobically. You can not change 2x fibers that much and you can not increase the mitochondrial density of 2b fibers to match her competitors.

Please explain your logic?

You can see it another way around. I have coached 13 winners of international races in just four years time . Maybe

I have found the way that doesn`t match your theories? You can change FT -fibers to work as ST , but not the other way around. How her set of fibers looks we don`t know , but as I said I have seen in my former coaching of her that she has great sprint speed but also great stamina . We wil see what happens.

SUPERIOR COACH JS wrote:I have coached 13 winners of international races in just four years time .

And yet you won't say who you are or who you coach. Sounds legit.

Complete list of 23 year olds whose best 100m time in the past year is in the 11.3s:

Brenessa THOMPSON

Courtne DAVIS

Bassant HEMIDA

Basnat Mohamed AWAD ABDELSALAM

Tramesha HARDY

Shashalee FORBES

Carolyn BROWN

"I have seen she also has very good stamina and has done workouts like 20 x 400m at 67-68 sec with rest back to 120 bpm in about 1 min . And she is used to do easy runs like 60 min at 8 min mile pace. "

Really? This sounds fishy. Why is a 100m runner doing 20x400? At 67 seconds with 1 min rest? That's a pretty solid workout for a distance runner.

SUPERIOR COACH JS wrote:

otter wrote:

You can train 2A fibers aerobically. You can not change 2x fibers that much and you can not increase the mitochondrial density of 2b fibers to match her competitors.

Please explain your logic?

You can see it another way around. I have coached 13 winners of international races in just four years time . Maybe

I have found the way that doesn`t match your theories? You can change FT -fibers to work as ST , but not the other way around. How her set of fibers looks we don`t know , but as I said I have seen in my former coaching of her that she has great sprint speed but also great stamina . We wil see what happens.

Not my theories or even theories at all. There are three primary fast twitch fibers. The question still stands?

SUPERIOR COACH JS wrote:

otter wrote:

You can train 2A fibers aerobically. You can not change 2x fibers that much and you can not increase the mitochondrial density of 2b fibers to match her competitors.

Please explain your logic?

You can see it another way around. I have coached 13 winners of international races in just four years time . Maybe

I have found the way that doesn`t match your theories? You can change FT -fibers to work as ST , but not the other way around. How her set of fibers looks we don`t know , but as I said I have seen in my former coaching of her that she has great sprint speed but also great stamina . We wil see what happens.

I hope your athlete is type A. If so, you have done nothing new.

coach mysterio wrote:

SUPERIOR COACH JS wrote:I have coached 13 winners of international races in just four years time .

And yet you won't say who you are or who you coach. Sounds legit.

Lol, .....Who I am I think most people here on the boards know by now? )) I`m a Swede , a former national elite runner and I have been an online coach since four years back.

Middle Ground wrote:

"I have seen she also has very good stamina and has done workouts like 20 x 400m at 67-68 sec with rest back to 120 bpm in about 1 min . And she is used to do easy runs like 60 min at 8 min mile pace. "

Really? This sounds fishy. Why is a 100m runner doing 20x400? At 67 seconds with 1 min rest? That's a pretty solid workout for a distance runner.

Don`t you see? That`s what I`m saying ........she has great anaerobic capacity! I just have to add good aerobic power . To fasten up her easy runs over time. Easy case... ))

coach mysterio wrote:

SUPERIOR COACH JS wrote:I have coached 13 winners of international races in just four years time .

And yet you won't say who you are or who you coach. Sounds legit.

nice lying bro. He's coach JS. Jan Stensson . Magic wizard.

otter wrote:

SUPERIOR COACH JS wrote:

You can see it another way around. I have coached 13 winners of international races in just four years time . Maybe

I have found the way that doesn`t match your theories? You can change FT -fibers to work as ST , but not the other way around. How her set of fibers looks we don`t know , but as I said I have seen in my former coaching of her that she has great sprint speed but also great stamina . We wil see what happens.

Not my theories or even theories at all. There are three primary fast twitch fibers. The question still stands?

You are stating muscle fiber theories as if they are proven facts. Only elite athletes at universities or professional athletes have muscle fiber biopsies. No sane medical doctor has ever done muscle biopsies on infants in order to test twitch ratio. The issue with changing a 100m/400m athlete to distance runner is an under developed cardio system. Also, there is a sprinter's mentality. A sprinter's mentality rarely allows an athlete to psychologically adapt to racing longer than 1500m well. I do not know the identity of this sprinter female athlete. It makes no sense that Coach JS is planning on skipping past 800m straight to road racing with a 100m/400m athlete. The issue is not muscle fibers. The issue is sport psychology.

SUPERIOR COACH JS wrote:

She`s not old, only 23 :) Plenty of time to transform her......

She's aged 3 years since July?

Coach JS,

Are you planning to give her Norwegian drugs?

twizzle wrote:

SUPERIOR COACH JS wrote:

She`s not old, only 23 :) Plenty of time to transform her......

She's aged 3 years since July?

https://twitter.com/Janne11416320/status/1149258734906105857

No,no! That is one of my other potential

world record breakers, LoL )) That lady is Kenyan and only age 20 ..........I coach a lot of great runners and upcoming world class runners. She has tremendous anaerobic and aerobic capacity and has already run a 10 k road race at 31 min up at high altitude in Kenya.

Oh, you're right. This is all in their head. Sport psychology is the limiting factor. Thank you for enlightening me. Years of research down the drain. I will start over again.