Training the Multi Event Athlete

BySeth Mischke

Head Track and Field Coach Black Hills State University

Commonalities

First things first………………find common training traits with the events (drills, physiological systems needed, etc….)

Speed, speed endurance, strength, special endurance

Have something to work on in warm-up for off-event/s each day (great place to stay in touch)

Weekly Set-Up (sprinter/jumper)

Monday – speed development/light technical drills as part of warm-up for jump/weights

Tuesday – technique day for a jump Wednesday – medium to strong

circuit/weights (mostly recovery day) Thursday – light technical jump day w/speed

endurance work Friday – pre-meet work, approaches, blocks,

but not many of either really Saturday – COMPETE, TRAIN, LEARN!

Rotation of Events

Coach and athlete have to be okay with maybe not training all events every week (tough mentally to get a handle on sometimes)

Sometimes it’s better, depending on event, to train it every other week from a technical standpoint

Give the body time to absorb ideas Competition simulation (changing shoes,

hustling from one event to another?)

Overtraining?

Concept needs to be understood in every event (it can happen differently in different events)

More ways to get hurt (communicate and listen to athlete?)

Very easy to fall into trap of training every day without real and/or quality REST

Over-Analyzing

Reps are great, but quality reps are better

Let the “natural” come out in the athlete, don’t train/talk it out of them (less brain, more athlete)

No when to say when “Just one more coach” can be one too

many Mental ability to focus and make

changes from one rep to the next is imperative with shortness of season

?Questions?