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[jacksoner]

the author has removed this post - complaining about his coach

Edited by CoolRunning Admin, 23 July 2008 - 09:16 PM.
the author has removed this post - complaining about his coach

[Rudolf]

it is difficult to respond, since it is not very ethical to be critical of others methods
we do not have infos and Your age ?

However this remains me of my teenage athletic nightmares with similar types coaches.


In the end, If You do not trust the coach and if You do not feel You can talk to him anytime about anything, and get the stuff explained properly, and if You feel You are not allowed to have input and give feedback, that You will not stick around for very long.


There are systems which would not allowe young runners any anaerobic training but they would also not advise any anaerobic racing, so teh ball is in Your court as well.


If I was in Your shoes at Your age with my current knowledge I would decide to become pure sprinter and never race anything longer than 200m and strictly train as sprinter for few years, with lots of very easy (not tempo) recovery jogs.

So would tell the coach I am switching to 100-200 or would switch to sprinting coach.


and when older would resume the 800m training


But I am very untraditional and perhaps radical in my views, so take advice from somebody else

[Still Building]

That is madness.

He doesn't know what he is doing.

You need a little more speed based. More aerobic based and more recovery based.

More than anything else, you need a new coach.

[jacksoner]

thanks for the responses guys. i turned 15 in febuary and m in year9. look, i would be happy to be a sprinter but i have little time to prepare for it with the upcoming CAS champs, so maye next season is better. the 400m is my primary event and i was speaking to my school captain who is a sprinter (who btw does 10.35, 21.80 and 48) about my training and he thought that my coach was nuts.
its not that i dont want to leave my coach its just i am so near competition so have no other choice but to train with him, i would train with the school coach but school training is very dis-organised and always called off. i COULD train myself but I only have a basic knowledge on what to do.
do you guys think i should stick with my coach up until my first race to see how i perform or stop training with him now and start trainig myself?

[Jogger]

We still only have very little to go on. what is his resume like - does he coach others ? what are their programs like ? what do they think of the training ? what are their results like ? if he doesn't train anyone else and you know nobody else he has coached how did you end up with him ? is he a specialist track coach or is he a footy coach etc ?

hard to criticise until we have his side of the story. you are almost better off tossing a coin ...

[CoolRunning Admin]

the kid who posted this thread has edited his originally post to a single juvenile word, so no more discussion.