John shepherd

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@NicholsonLinda 😂👍🏽

The joys of the Kangaroo Club! Still relevant. Tidying out old stuff but can not part with these!

My thoughts (adding to many) on @WorldAthletics long jump board change proposals. Best not to do it! It won’t work well in 95% of comps… it could be dangerous… read more here: m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…

Jumping explosiveness is based on the transition from the eccentric to the concentric stimulus. It’s plyometric - weight training is usually slow concentric … fast eccentric and quick switching time is needed to jump. 🏋️‍♀️ can limit specific strength.

Heath-Robinson approach to measuring jump height in the light of our recent eccentric focus training designed to do this. If I set up and film in the same place each time it may be useful. Jump height did seem better - note the jumpers were not trying to jump higher. (Bar 1.30m)

@jesskovitzski We do them 2 times a week - 4x6 that sort of average volume. Heights varied 40cm-1.10m. Thanks

@JohnShepherdFit Hey Coach, Love your YouTube videos. How many times per week do you recommend doing drop jumps?

Doing some research on assisted plyometrics. We’ve been doing them for a couple of weeks now. Be interesting to see what the transfer is. Remember it’s difficult to just attribute change to just one inclusion - it’s how all the training ingredients function together

I was a guest on Colm Bourke’s Track & Field Performance podcast - we talk about many things including how to train speed all year round, why tempo training and even circuits can be a waste of time. Keep@is specific and fast! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/joh…

Some new ideas and drills for the autumn training period. Don’t just pick blindly from the “internet shelf”… consider carefully your selections and how they fit into your existing training programmes and philosophy youtu.be/Rg_lqNXVNvw

French Contrast Training uses 4 exercises on the force speed continuum. We found it too intense but this may reflect my programming. It’s benefits may well reflect potentiation rather than specific exercise selection & order. Any complex/contrast training could be as effective

Hitch-kick - U18 athlete Andrew is learning to hitch changing from a “poor” hang. To me the key position is the second image. Hold the drive and then push the foot away and sweep leg long. This “block” “push-pull” can add significant jump distance

Trying out some new training ideas (well new to me). Some resisted drills and plyos. The time before winter training starts for real seems to be the ideal time to trial new ideas Thanks to speedbands for kit

HOW TO GET A GREAT RUN-UP My thoughts in this month’s @AthleticsWeekly How to phase the run-up, why it’s the long jumper’s sprint training, difference between long and triple jump approaches & more

@KjsjField @EnglandAthletic Yes, probably shouid have said that!

@JohnShepherdFit @EnglandAthletic Did your charge win ?

Great jumping from u17 to win the @EnglandAthletic u17 champs with two windy PBs 7.38m and 7.40m. Well deserved after some disappointment 👏🏽

Is social media neglected by coaches and an area we could better utilise. I’ve tried to produce informative content for quite a while. It’s not easy - you’ve got to learn quite a bit more than how to coach the take-off. What do you think - embrace or necessary evil??

@NicholsonLinda The response is “finalists” and Europeans will have more selections (like in Munich). I guess the process is there in that respect. I’m perhaps more concerned with the difficulties we face coaching in the first place and also where and how the new coaches will develop.

@JohnShepherdFit Would love to see the working framework for these decisions. What is overall longer term aim? Shorter term aims? Process aims? Then what are the indicators to measure progress towards these? And the overriding themes should be sustainability and fairness.

Very much the British Athletics topic of the month (+ a lack of female coaches on the team @NicholsonLinda). The non approval of WA invites seems contrary to developing athletes. So an athlete is motivated to “show them” but perhaps this show could have happened in Hungary.

Nice to have two guys selected for Commonwealth Youth Games … from both sides of the Atlantic. D’Mitri England and Andrew Trinidad. Both have jumped over 7.30m…. Good luck to all

SINGLE V DOUBLE TRIPLE JUMP ARM ACTION Some theory and practice. Why don’t more women use a double arm action? I’m beginning to work a few things out. Key is reaction and not slowing the phase transitions (too much) with a double. If u can keep the speed it looks positive.