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It's time to trust science and commit to development. Click the link in my bio to download FREE SPEED WORKOUTS 📓📝and considerations for improvements in the sprints. 

In 12 years of coaching, I spend most of my time fixing things. I have witnessed so many athletes plateau or experience minimal improvements throughout their entire high school careers due to massive training volumes, coaches misunderstanding of the energy systems, a lack of speed and technical work, and poor annual planning. 

Although the resources and clinics are there, thousands of athletes nation wide fall through the cracks every year and never reach their full potential.

What is at the root of the pervasive presence of poor coaching in track and field? Here is my opinion:

✔️Ego based rather than knowledge and science based coaching
✔️Uneducated athletic directors who don't understand the needs of the sport
✔️Low funding for athletics and minimal coaching stipends to hire qualified professionals
✔️The idea that being fast in high school or collage makes one a good coach
✔️The idea that the 400 is a distance race 🫣
✔️Youth programs that only allow fast kids to run the sprints and overtrain athletes for years and years
✔️Scarce or ineffective education programs for coaches

What is the solution? EDUCATION!
AthleticEdu is committed to educating coaches and athletes so we don't continue to keep repeating the same mistakes. So that good coaches have a platform to be recognized and celebrated, and science can move into the center of track and field at the high school level.
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