2. Alan Richardson
• British Athletics Event Group Lead
• Team Leader Great Britain under 20’s
• Coached PV at Lboro since 2004
• Former National Event Coach(UKA) and National Coach Mentor(EA)
• IAAF Level 5 Coach and Academy Member
3. Long Term Development of Jumpers
• Athletics is a late
development sport
• So no need to rush
4. Long Term Planning
• It takes a minimum of seven years to develop an elite pole vaulter
(Vitali Petrov)
• 10,000 hour rule
• Construction of a balanced athlete
– Long Term health
– Long term variety of skill base
– Develop Skills needed throughout the junior development pathway
– Develop Skills needed for long term senior success
– Can add speed and power to a strong, stable and robust base
– Young athletes are not mini adults and should follow and appropriate
pathway
8. Why Planning for the Long Term
• Athlete First
• The Sport of Athletics
• FMS – “the ability to perform a precise action without any superfluous
or supporting movements”
• Build a solid movement base
• Run, Jump, Throw
• Variety and motivation
• Continuous skill progression rather than travelling backwards to fix
• Long Term motivation- early specialisation and long term success
– World Youth medallists/ ESAA medallists
– Why? Does this have to be the case
9. The need to get it right
• Because…
• 85% of all that we do is Autonomous, its automatic and requires little
no thought process.
• We are what we practise!
10. Skill learning phases:
• Cognitive – Identify component part forming mental picture
• Associative – Practise linking the part into a smooth action
• Autonomous- Developing the skills until they become automatic
and require little or no conscious effort
12. Commonality…
The Approach Run – All 4 events have an approach run, Including
an acceleration, alignment and attack phase
The Take Off – All 4 events have a take off made up of an eccentric
loading, amortization and concentric re-action
Flight Phase – Resistance of potentially negative rotational forces,
while maximising the effects of positive directional forces created
16. First and Foremost the sport is called
ATHLETICS
• We coach athletes not events
• Called athletics for a reason
• Develop all round athletic skills to create great senior performances
• Simple skills done continuously better
• Higher level athletes/ coaches do not need to get overly complex
Presentation prepared by Alan Richardson
17. The Training Diet
• Based on development of bio motor abilities that do not change
whatever the level/ stage of development of athlete
• It just how we development/ prioritise that change
• The 5 S’s
• Skill (technique)
• Speed
• Strength
• Stamina - Work Capacity –
– “ability to cope with the training and event load”
• Suppleness
18. Skill
• Event Specific Skills
– PV/HJ/ LJ/TJ
• FMS
– Ability to perform movement without superfluous extra and unwanted
movements
– Posture, Foot Contact
• Speed Skill
– Acceleration, Maximal Speed, Speed Endurance
20. Stamina
• Work capacity “ability to cope with the training and event load”
• How many jumps to become proficient?
• Can we recover and train again?
• Can we stay injury free
21. Suppleness
• Minimise injury risk
• Complete technique effectively
• Does not reduce strength (if all in balance)
25. Fundamental Movement
• The ability to perform movements in the most efficient way possible
• Ability to perform movement without superfluous extra and unwanted
movements
• Develop to provide a solid movement base that event specific skill
can be built on
• Apply force most effectively
• Underpins all Athletics
• Jumps-
– Run- posture
– Take off – control forces eccentric/ apply forces – concentric
• Maintaining body positions where required
– Co-ordination –to perform movement at speed
26. Skill Learning
• Practise does not make perfect
• Practise makes permanent
• Perfect practise makes perfect permanent
• Skill - Proficiency, facility, or dexterity that is acquired or developed
through training or experience
• Drills- A drill is an opportunity to teach, a drill is not a teacher
29. Developing Movement
• Need Multidirectional Control
• A Walk/ A Skip and Variants (barbell/ plate/ DB)
• Lateral Skip
• Backward Skip
• Mini Hops
• Mini Bounds
• Speed Skater Continuous