Sanya Richards

Sanya Richards, the current world 400m champion, began the session in the video with two repetitions of 200m each in 30 seconds with 30 seconds recovery. Coach Clyde Hart made the point that this type of work develops an athletes oxygen uptake ability. Whilst I would agree that this type of work to rest ratio is excellent for developing aerobic capacity, I would suggest rather more than two repetitions would be required to acheive this kind of training effect. Perhaps such a small amount of short recovery work was being used merely as maintainance work for the aerobic system.


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The hill sprints Richards performed at the end of the workout should be considered as a form of resisted sprint training. The hill was not very steep, which allowed her to perform her repetitions without a significant alteration in running technique.

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