![]() Although the 4-point starts are far more common among elite sprinters, some believe the standing start may have some merit. ![]() The rest of the sprinters during that time did well with the 4-point start. These were the only two senior high school boys that I thought could benefit from the stand. Years later I tried the standing start with another sprinter and he consistently turned in faster times than with the crouch start. Over a period of three weeks and 12 total starts from each position he proved to be consistently faster from the standing start position. During these trials he did three starts from the crouch (four point start) and three 30-yard sprints from the standing position. We did repeat 30-meter sprints on several different occasions. I decided to experiment with him and we tried the standing start. One of my best sprinters was a tall gangly young man who could not generate enough force to come out of the crouch start smoothly. The 1984 article did not shake up the track sprinting/hurdling world as much as I had envisioned, so I am going to add to it 35 years later.īack in the seventies, I coached men’s track. The question I kept asking myself at that time was: If there is such a wide margin of strength and coordination between these two genders and age groups why do we train and teach them the same way to start a sprint or hurdle race? I am estimating this based on observation and experience. A 13-year-old girl just coming out for track can probably bench press 30% – 60% of her body weight however, trained 18-year-old boy/girl can bench press as much as 70% – 90% of his/her body weight. The untrained 13-year-old boy just coming out for track usually can bench press about 50% – 60% of his body weight. This combination of duties, gave me the opportunity to observe the huge discrepancy in strength and coordination between an average 13-year-old boy/girl sprinter and a trained 18-year-old male/female sprinter. The article was written because, at that time, I taught weight training in Physical Education and also coached track & field at the senior high level. ![]() I am the author of that article, which was entitled Stand up Starts. The article was written as an attempt to promote the use of the 3-point start for some athletes in middle school and high school. These words were published in the Athletic Journal in May of 1984. Many sprinters and hurdlers in middle school and high school have difficulty generating enough power out of the crouch blocks (four point start), to maintain the proper angle during the “gun” phase of the start. He sets out the whys and wherefores of this controversial starting techniqueįor middle and high school sprinters. Coach Glover has achieved good success using a 3-point start for some of his sprinters.
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