Timothy Coles

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Pillars #9 & #10 of Feed the Cats are considered “soft” to many traditional coaches. 9) Make practice the best part of a kid’s day. 10) Kids are good at what they like, obsessed with what they love. The traditional, old-school approach is to do random “hard things” to become mentally tough. (If practice is hard, games will be easy.) “Whatever doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger.” ~Nietzsche The better approach ⬇️ “Often times, the ones that are successful loved what they did so they could persevere when it got really tough.” ~Steve Jobs

Can’t break 50 in the 400m unless you can break 23 in the 200m. Can’t break 23 in the 200m unless you can break 11.50 in the 100m. Can’t break 11.50 in 100m unless you can hit 21.3 to 22.0 mph in a short fly. The 400 doesn’t care about your mileage.

@tad_remy Make sure it’s about 20 live jumps. After 10-20 repeat 200s

We need to live triple jump every day, ideally with a two mile jog as warm-up @TimothyColes3

From one of the best college 400m coaches in the country, @CoachErnieClark, commenting on Quincy Hall. "Maybe cross country taught him to be mentally tough and/or learn to work through fatigue better than others. And that’s a BIG maybe. But there are no significant gains from running cross country in high school that helped him sprint 43.40 and become the 400m Olympic Champion as a 26 year old." and... "There is no such thing as a *kick* in the 400m." ➡️ The 400 is a sprint. ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Takeaways: 1) Max velocity almost always wins and we should train accordingly. 2) High max velocity is a function of the CNS. The same CNS is fundamental to acceleration. Fast guys are good accelerators, slow guys aren’t. Speed is the tide that lifts all boats. 3) Lyles running a 21.7 mph average from 10-20m is more impressive than it looks. My fastest HS sprinters might hit a 20 mph average from 10-20m. 4) Acceleration is coachable and critically important in a race decided by tenths, hundredths, or even thousandths of a second, but the true differentiator will always be max speed. 10.70 sprinter 10-20m ➡️ ~20 mph 9.70 sprinter 10-20m ➡️ ~22 mph 10.70 sprinter 60-70m ➡️ ~23+ mph 9.70 sprinter 60-70m ➡️ ~27+ mph Don’t understand coaches who denigrate max velocity training.

@CFBRep @3YearLetterman how do you feel about Georgia’s numbers being this high?

College Football graduation rates by school since 2016 🏈🎓

Slowest guy at the half-way point in last night’s 400 finals? 21.91 Michael Norman was at 20.90. Best way to get good at the 400? Get good in the 200. Can’t run at a speed you can’t achieve.

2024 Irish Football schedule

Incredible day on the river

@tad_remy I would describe it as indescribable

@CMacNeil_iii Congrats Mac!

Truly humbled and beyond grateful for this opportunity!! 🏴‍☠️

Retiring the 8th Grade girls baton today. They crushed the previous record by over a second. Proud of these girls and their work ethic the past 2 seasons.

@tad_remy @SC_Track_Field How many repeat 400s did you do everyday to get to a time like that?

AVCTL II 4x4 runner up @SC_Track_Field

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10 ways to improve athleticism in young athletes: 1. Jumping: no there is no such thing as jumping slow. Jump up, jump down, jump over, side to side and all around... 2. Sprinting: best age to develop speed is between 7-11 years of age. Start short 10 yds move to longer distances. 3. Calisthenics: the simple stuff that nobody does anymore. Jumping jacks, skips, hops, burpees, twisting, reaching and balancing on one foot. 4. Racing and Chasing: nobody runs slow being chased or chasing someone. 5. Strength: monkey bars, bearcrawls, wrestling, climb a tree, mow the lawn etc... 6. Pick-up: any game football, baseball, basketball, wiffleball etc...without the intervention of any adults what so ever. 7. Tag: develops all around agility. Sprinting, stopping, starting and all around good fun. 8. Stop playing one sport all year around 9. Limit screen time to one hour per day. 10. Take 10 to 15 minutes at the beginning of every sport practice and work on numbers 1 through 5... #LTAD

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@mckallal @pntrack @Coach_Rathke Last year as the MS sprints and horizontal jumps coach I did similar to what Tony talks about Head coach said the whole team had to have a running workout Based on early practice times I created a speed group for myself and gave the other coaches the rest My group was FTC

@pntrack @Coach_Rathke Thoughts on how to incorporate something like this at the middle school level? I’ll have 120 kids out and 85 think they all run the 100/200 and Long Jump.

I am frequently asked about my criteria for our track “tryouts” at PN. (PN is a school of 2300 kids and I only coach boys.) We have tryouts for sprints and throws. We’ve never cut a distance runner. If you aren’t a sprinter or thrower, you can still be on the track team, running distance. Reasoning… ➡️ As 🏈 coach, if 30 guys wanted to play QB, 3 of them would play QB, the other 27 would be moved to a new position. ➡️ I once asked a no-cut track coach why basketball teams don’t have 60 guys on a team. He said, “60 would be hard to manage.” I said, “Hard to manage and IMPOSSIBLE to coach.” I refuse to *manage” a track team. Class size matters… especially with a sprint or throws group, and especially indoors with limited space AND time. Our D-Crew runs outdoors in the winter. Coaching a big group can be done (and because endurance training is hard and winters are cold, the D-Crew is somewhat self-limiting). ➡️ Another reason why 🏀 teams don’t keep 60 kids is that 50 of those kids would never get to play in a game. Track is similar. 80% of our meets have limited entries. Why keep 200 kids when only 40 kids go to meet? We have 4 meets with unlimited entries. Is 4 meets in a 19 week season good enough for 100 kids on your team? 🤔 ➡️ Too many track programs are more recreational than competitive. My track teams are every bit as competitive and serious as a varsity 🏈 or 🏀 team. Criteria for making the *sprint* team ⤵️ Legit speed or speed potential. (Or potential in jumps, vault, or hurdles). Freshmen who run 19-20 mph typically make the team. Sophomores running 20-21 mph typically make the team. Juniors running 21-22 mph and seniors running 22-23 mph typically make the team. But there’s no published criteria. ✅ If a junior is running 21 mph and has not shown improvement and signs of high potential, he may not make the sprint group. If a senior is the 15th fastest guy on the team, he may not make it. I refuse to keep kids that won’t have a good experience. Obviously we would keep an 18 mph senior if he could high jump 6’6” (happened in 2018). We keep 18 mph junior hurdlers hoping they run 21 mph as seniors (happened in 2023). I once cut a freshman who went to the distance group and ran the mile in 4:20 three years later. I don’t like absolute standards to make a track team because I want to use my professional judgement. If I have an 18 mph freshman whose brother was our varsity 🏈 star RB and ran 22 mph, I would keep him based on potential. That slow freshman, Tyler Hoosman, ran 23 mph as a senior and made it to the final cut with the LA Chargers last August. I also want to factor in coachability, work ethic, and competitiveness. Track starts Tuesday at PN. docs.google.com/document/d/15r…

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