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Uploaded by Ryan From Flotrack | June 3, 2010

In our third installment of the Fourth Season, Jack Daniels gives some thoughts on leg speed and how to development this skill in runners.

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ralph kroetch 3 years ago

Thanks for the tip-tips I plan on using the rep work with our team early this comming cross country season.

3 years ago

would a workout where you sprint the straightaways and jog the turns on the track apply to this? and would it be smart to do in a summer base for xc?

speedE 3 years ago

Arthur Lydiard is the greatest coach of all time! Sorry Mr. Daniels, but your methods don't work. Lets see.....how many great runners has the United Staes produce? And how many great olympic runners has Lydiard produced? End of discussion. Lydiard ventured out to Africa and look what has happened to the Africans and Ethiopians.....Amercians don't know how to run.

hmm... some problems with your logic here stopeck:
1) Everything Daniels said here would have been advocated by Lydiard.
2) A broad statement such as "your methods don't work" without any qualification is almost certain to be false.
3)Daniels is not the coach for all of the runners in the united states, though you seem to think this the case.
4)The east Africans' training is similar to the periodized methods that Lydiard used, but this does not mean that he was the one who influenced them to train in this way. I think you will find that he had much more direct influence on European runners (the Finns, for example).
5) The whole "world's greatest coach" thing was not a title Daniels gave himself, but one that was given to him by a third party. That title seems a bit over the top, but it is no reason to attack the man and his methods.

stopeck 3 years ago

Arthur Lydiard is the greatest coach of all time! Sorry Mr. Daniels, but your methods don't work. Lets see.....how many great runners has the United Staes produce? And how many great olympic runners has Lydiard produced? End of discussion. Lydiard ventured out to Africa and look what has happened to the Africans and Ethiopians.....Amercians don't know how to run.

matt avery 3 years ago

What is a good book to read about mental aspects of running?

running within and brain training are both good books on the mental side of running

3 years ago

this was my question :) THANKS JACKY JACK IT REALLY HELPED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Karl 3 years ago

Dear Michael
Watch the video again. He talks about ADDING ONE new stressed system at a time, not working one system at a time. You continue to work the other systems that you have introduced. Funny how different people can watch the same video and get something totally different out of it.

Pchemisfun 3 years ago

Man I would do those workouts for summer training for XC and I would do like 4x200 then then 4x300 later in the summer with like a 200 or 100 jog in between. I guess I was on the right track. But I have also given that same advise to runners start introducing speed in little bits not all at once.

Barry Haworth 3 years ago

I think the point was that you progress through training by adding one new system at a time, not that you train one system - stop, and switch to a different (new) system.

Michael Bolland 3 years ago

Mr. Daniels,

Your concept of stressing one system at a time is something I have never heard of. I'm not trying to question your coaching abilities at all, but why would you want to stress one at a time when in a race all the systems are stressed? It'd be great if you or somebody else on here could explain that...

That's with the assumption that I don't mean you should race in practice. Anyway, could somebody tell me what are the benefits of stressing one system at a time as opposed to maybe 2 or 3 at a time.

j 3 years ago

Dude. BRILLIANT! Seriously. I love how he ties your 400m ability into your marathon capability. Track workouts are brutal for me (a marathoner)... and I never actually equated what I'm capable of for 400m being relevant to what I'm capable of over 26mi... but he's absolutely right (duh!). I just love these Thirsty Thursday's, Flotrack - THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH!!

Anthony Nuccio 3 years ago

That is some really great advice.

ONE 3 years ago

What is a good book to read about mental aspects of running?

emily 3 years ago

nice place to run in the video.
today's my speed day!
@jackandcoke........personally, I don't see stretching, weightlifting and barefoot running as controversial. Stretching helps me. Today I only lift hand weights 2 or 3 times a week and I can tell that it helps me. I grew up going barefoot. All of us american indian children where I lived grew up running barefoot. I've been doing it for over 40 years. I run 60 miles a week and today half of it is done barefoot and it has done nothing but make me stronger. Many of us children went to school without shoes on or took them off when we got there. I'm barefoot now. I only wear shoes when I have to. It's not controversial. Some runners, like Zola Budd Pieterse, don't run much barefoot anymore because of Leg Length Discrepancy and need a lift in a shoe in order to keep the legs the same lenth to avoid breaks in places like the pelvis. Look up Zola Budd races on Youtube where I've made comments. Also I made comments on a Youtube video that is titled something like "Finally a female barefoot runner."

CAP 3 years ago

Sick!! Thanks for answering my question, and for the insight on developing speed.

brilliant 3 years ago

brilliant. end of story.

jackandcoke 3 years ago

I always love what Jack Daniels has to say. He is a great coach because he can explain why a specific type of training is being done, and he understands the physiological adaptations that occur from any type of aerobic stimulus.

It seems like a lot of coaches will have their athletes do a certain workout or exercise without any concrete scientific reason....it could be they're doing it because its just something they've always done, or they'd heard someone else was doing it, and it could be the complete wrong thing to do. For instance, I really like how Jack talked about only introducing one new stress at a time. I'd be interested to see what he thinks about certain controversial aspects of training such as stretching, weight lifting, and barefoot running.
Jack Daniels questions everything, researches why it's effective or not effective, and decides whether or not to apply it to an athlete based on his or her individual characteristics, talent level, and goals. That is why he is the best.

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