Championship Productions Clyde Hart’s Speed Development for Track and Field DVD
With Clyde Hart, Baylor University Director of Track and Field and 400M Coach; Hart has coached 8 Olympians to 12 Olympic medals-9 Gold, including winning the 400 meter in 3 straight Olympic games. While at Baylor, Hart has coached 34 national champions (14 individual and 20 relay) and 533 All-Americans. Track and field coaching legend Clyde Hart reveals what he has learned in becoming one of the most successful coaches in track and field history. Coach Hart provides you with all the tools you need to develop speed-producing sprint mechanics in your athletes. He includes coaching wisdom, training philosophy, sprint drills, workouts, and much more. From hand and arm movements to foot strike and stride, Hart covers sprint mechanics like never before. Using personal stories and examples, Coach Hart begins the video with a discussion on how he has identified talented sprinters over the years. He unveils the key ingredients to developing a talented sprinter: Proper sprint mechanics, building a yearly sprint training program and creating a strength training program that properly supplements the track work. Hart breaks down each of the proper movements and mechanics a fundamentally sound sprinter needs. From hand and arm movements to foot strike and stride length, stride rate, relaxation, and the mental framework required to separate you from your competition. Hart covers it all In the sprint training segment, athletes demonstrate many of the drills and workouts Hart has utilized over the years to create explosive power and to develop some of the world’s best sprinters. He also touches on the use of training aids-ladders, weighted sleds, resistance bands-and how they can be implemented into your program. No sprint video would be complete without warm-ups. Starting with a warm-up run you will see 15 different active and dynamic stretching routines, followed by a few of the training workouts like: Speed Makers, Event 300’s, and even a set of Bleacher Drills.
- Build a unique sprint training program for your athletes using Hart’s “pyramid philosophy” to get the most out of your athletes every season
- Learn the speed-producing sprint drills Hart uses to develop some of the world’s best sprinters
- Incorporate the legendary sprint workouts Hart has used over the years including the speedmakers, the 300 event workout, and 300/100 workout
- Create a yearlong strength training program that will develop speed and power in your athletes to bring it all together
- 109 Minutes, 2012