Electric Hurdles
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BOIL A FROG

Start where it is easy. Add difficulty in increments too small to feel. The athlete adapts without a psychological break.

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BOIL A FROG

Start in a natural, easy, comfortable state.Add micro additions of difficulty.The athlete adapts without registering that it got harder.

“If you start an athlete in its natural state doing something that is easy and comfortable, and then you just add micro additions of difficulty to it, the person will adapt without even psychologically knowing it.”
SourcesFIT · 20260810-110721-CDX
Coach notes
  • It is micro progressive overload, a concept the founder connects to his bodybuilding background.
  • The phrase comes from a story his Louisiana-born father told him as a child. The founder says he does not know whether the frog story is literally true. The coaching concept does not depend on it.
  • Inside Electric Hurdles the increments move drill to drill while carrying the same Electric intent: repeat the required movements faster without losing technique, INTENT, rhythm, smoothness, Pop, Bounce, stiffness, shuffle or forward lean.

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  • Unresolved Size, rate and frequency of the micro additions.
SourcesKU-015AH; FIT · 20260810-110721-CDX
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Where the Frog Ends Up

The destination: the whole fifty-step race run with the quality close spacing first made possible.Hard-rubber-ball bounce. Stiffness. Shuffle. Pitter-patter.No launching, no jumping, no excess torque, no Pole Vault.

SourcesKU-015AJ; KU-015AH

Related

  • Every Practice Gives Everything -- There is no earned-right gate. Low-close and wide-fast hurdling happen in every practice.
  • Speed Is Electric -- Speed is how fast the body can repeat the required motion. In hurdles, that is the fixed race pattern, repeated faster.

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