General Strength for HS Distance Runners

Simple Strength Training for HS Distance Runners Jay Johnson coachjayjohnson @ Gmail.com www. coachjayjohnson .com

You don’t need to take any notes as all of the material I’m about to present is on the internet right now Jay Johnson coachjayjohnson @ Gmail.com www. coachjayjohnson .com

Some Clinic Presentations Stink

Some Clinic Presentations Stink Presenter doesn’t give you anything that you ✴ can implement into your program Presenter gives bland, generic, evasive answers ✴ to get out of telling you what they actually do They try to squeeze their entire training ✴ program into a 45 minute presentation Their slides don’t match their handouts ✴

Some Clinic Presentations Stink Presenter doesn’t give you anything that you ✴ can implement into your program Presenter gives gland, generic, evasive answers ✴ to get out of telling you what they actually do They try to squeeze their entire training ✴ program into a 45 minute presentation Their slides don’t match their handouts ✴

We only have 45 min I’m not going to go into any science, especially ✴ regarding the endocrine system (i.e. hormones) I’m not going to give you examples of fast ✴ people who do General Strength daily (i.e. Alan Webb, Shalane Flanagan, Kara Goucher) You can watch every exercise I refer to on your ✴ computer when you get home You are ALWAYS welcome to come watch any ✴ practice I conduct if you are really interested

We only have 45 min I will explain the natural, logical progression ✴ underlying this type of work I will give you a 13 week training plan that will ✴ take you and the athletes through the outdoor season, ending with the State Track Meet I will show a handful of key videos and walk ✴ you through the important details, teaching you what to look for when you assign this work to your athletes

We only have 45 min All of this information is on the internet right now If kids do this work they will run faster

Wouldn’t you love to do the following for your athletes: Decrease the chance of injury ✴ ✴ Improve recovery ✴ Improve Running Economy ✴ Allow them safely to train harder ✴ Allow them to safely run more miles

If a pill could do this, would you prescribe it to your athletes? Decrease the chance of injury ✴ ✴ Improve recovery ✴ Improve Running Economy ✴ Allow them safely to train harder ✴ Allow them to safely run more miles

This presentation is simply about giving athletes those benefits... Simple

The problem with the pill analogy is that our society is constantly questioning and wondering who is clean and who is not...

yet the irony is that the General Strength exercises I’ll share with you today do up-regulate HGH and Testosterone...

and that’s the primary reason General Strength has such an impact Do I condone drug use? NO, NO, NO

I’m going to show you simple exercises you can do at the track with your team, all year long You can do this with 2 kids or 20 kids or ✴ 100 kids, males and females You don’t need any equipment to do great ✴ General Strength work that is challenging When we do add equipment let’s simply ✴ use equipment that is already at the track ...but what about Simple the weight room?

“the Next Logical Step” - Mark Wetmore ...but what about the weight room?

“the Next Logical Step” - Mark Wetmore Is the weight room really the next logical step for your athletes to improve as distance runners?

“Train Movements, not Muscles” - Vern Gambetta Simple Principle #1

Lunge Matrix Warm-Up (LM) You work in all three planes of motion ✴ The more you run, the more you tend to be ✴ good in one plane of motion (sagital plane) You can watch every exercise I refer to on ✴ your computer when you get home Simple Principle #1

Lunge Matrix Warm-Up (LM) You’ll be sore following the first 3-4 times ✴ following the warm-up After 7-10 days, no soreness; after 3-4 weeks ✴ you don’t “feel right” without doing it If you want to learn more about this approach ✴ to human movement, go to one of Gary Gray’s seminars...I hope to go to one soon myself Simple Principle #1

Lateral Lunge Warm-Up (LL) More challenging than LM, so use it following ✴ workouts for 1-2 weeks before using it as a warm-up After 7-10 days, no soreness ✴ This is assigned daily as part of the Warm-up ✴ LM and LL take less than 5 min ✴ Simple Principle #1

General Strength has historically focused on the Anterior Chain Simple Principle #2

General Strength for running should be highly focused on the Posterior Chain Simple Principle #2

“Simple ain’t Easy” - Thelonius Monk Simple Principle #3

“If you can do more, then you can do more” Simple Principle #4

General to Specific ...and a few kids are ready for specific, so JUST DO IT. Simple Principle #5

These people are wired to deal with lactate, so don’t treat them like Leadville 100 runners

RunningDVDs.com Coupon Code for $5 off is “CHSCA” Questions

http://www.coachjayjohnson.com	21422
http://translate.googleusercontent.com	25
http://www.slideshare.net	20
http://www.e-presentations.us	3
http://feeds2.feedburner.com	3
http://www.coachjayjohnson.com.	2
http://coachjayjohnson.com.	2
http://thelittlesupperd.xanga.com	1
http://static.slidesharecdn.com	1
http://www.google.com	1

General Strength for HS Distance Runners

by Jay Johnson on Feb 05, 2009

Accessibility

Categories

Tags

Upload Details

Usage Rights

10 Embeds 21,480

Statistics

General Strength for HS Distance Runners — Presentation Transcript