I dont think there is enough 400 talent in the world.
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Originally posted by Paul HenryI dont think there is enough 400 talent in the world.
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Originally posted by kamikaze7400m training is highly technical.
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Originally posted by ASOriginally posted by hjumper33...it broke my heart to see that the Illinois high school kids would have won the "what state did you grow up in" NCAA XC championships :cry:
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Originally posted by MarlowOriginally posted by kamikaze7400m training is highly technical.
Besides having good coaching, factors such as nutrition, rehab etc play a huge role.
Back to my earlier point, developing nations would perform much better in the sprints if they had the proper coaching. One of the reasons they do well in distance events but not in the sprints is precisely that. Distance events arent that hard to train for. Its not rocket science. So many athletes like John Ngugi the legend can succeed without a coach.
IMO Kenya is an excellent example. Many of Kenya's top 800m runners actually specialized in 400m in high school or during their junior days.
According to the IAAF site, Billy Konchellah ran 45.38 at age 18 in 1979, which is comparable to Merritt and Wariner types at the same age. And this was probably without good instruction. Who knows how good he would have been as a 400m runner if he had instrcution.
Besides Konchellah, many of Kenya's top 800m runners were sprinters when they ran as juniors. : Pamela Jelimo ran 400m, Janeth Jepkosgei ran the 400mh
Others like Francisca Chepkurui, Patrick Ndururi (1:42.30),
Even Kirwa Yego strikes me as a similar case.
Nigeria too probably has 400m talent coming out of their ears if they only had a program to develop such talent.
Long story short, if you are a 400m runner and you are not from Europe or North America, its just that much harder to make it. In Pamela Jelimo's case, she showed up a training camp and the coaches told her there was no one qualified to coach her in the 400m, so he switched
http://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage...3995423&cid=39
After she won 400m gold at the Africa Junior Championships in Burkina Faso, she came to my training camp in Kapsabet and asked whether she could join," the coach begins.
"I asked her which race she wanted to run and she answered the 400m. I advised her that her chosen event involves a lot of technical training that we could not provide in Kapsabet," he adds.
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Originally posted by Paul HenryI dont think there is enough 400 talent in the world.
Originally posted by kamikaze7
Back to my earlier point, developing nations would perform much better in the sprints if they had the proper coaching. One of the reasons they do well in distance events but not in the sprints is precisely that. Distance events arent that hard to train for. Its not rocket science. So many athletes like John Ngugi the legend can succeed without a coach......
...jelimo....
"I asked her which race she wanted to run and she answered the 400m. I advised her that her chosen event involves a lot of technical training that we could not provide in Kapsabet," he adds.... nothing really ever changes my friend, new lines for old, new lines for old.
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Originally posted by kamikaze7Originally posted by Paul HenryI dont think there is enough 400 talent in the world.
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Originally posted by paulthefanOriginally posted by kamikaze7
Back to my earlier point, developing nations would perform much better in the sprints if they had the proper coaching. One of the reasons they do well in distance events but not in the sprints is precisely that. Distance events arent that hard to train for. Its not rocket science. So many athletes like John Ngugi the legend can succeed without a coach......
...jelimo....
"I asked her which race she wanted to run and she answered the 400m. I advised her that her chosen event involves a lot of technical training that we could not provide in Kapsabet," he adds.
Strength training to target the right muscle groups
Finding your ideal sprinting weight
proper diet and nutrition to get to your target weight and maintain it
exercises to improve balance, posture and stability of the core
Exercises to reduce injury
Among others factors, these are more critical for sprinters than they are for distance runners. All require individual attention from various specialists. Distance runners esepcially in East Africa often dont have that kind of individual attention. They dont need it.
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