Drills Toward Sprinting

Roughly 80 percent drills early, reversing toward 80 percent sprinting late.

Founder method

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80/20 to 20/80

Early season: about 80 percent drills, 20 percent sprinting.Late season: about 20 percent drills, 80 percent sprinting.

Coach notes

These percentages are the founder's illustrative examples.
Form-first chain: physical preparation gives access to strong shapes; understanding enables form; form enables speed. There is no shortcut around the early technical phase.
Racing into shape: technically demanding drill work produces fitness as a secondary effect. Fitness is not the primary intention.

SourcesKU-008; KU-012; GLOSS

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What Thins Out Late

Sprint drills: many early, fewer late, settling around four or five.Usain is often dropped late in the season.ABCs: four hurdles early, down to three or two when fatigue matters.

Coach notes

Each of these tapers frees hurdle count and capacity for the faster, more race-like work the late season asks for.

SourcesWALK · b3; WALK · b4; WALK · b11

The Seven Seasonal Headlines -- From preparation drills to Accurate Hurdling, then cycling between faster splits and accuracy to the end.
Sprint Drills: Frontside -- The first thing done to build the machine. One theme: an extreme frontside bias.

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80/20 to 20/80

Early season: about 80 percent drills, 20 percent sprinting.Late season: about 20 percent drills, 80 percent sprinting.

Coach notes

These percentages are the founder's illustrative examples.
Form-first chain: physical preparation gives access to strong shapes; understanding enables form; form enables speed. There is no shortcut around the early technical phase.
Racing into shape: technically demanding drill work produces fitness as a secondary effect. Fitness is not the primary intention.

SourcesKU-008; KU-012; GLOSS

Drills Toward Sprinting

80/20 to 20/80

What Thins Out Late

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