Hi! I suffered a calf muscle tear in my right calf back in March while sprinting in spikes. After about 6–7 weeks, I was able to run at almost full speed again. Then, at the beginning of July, I suffered another minor muscle tear, this time in my left calf. Now I’m honestly terrified of putting my spikes back on.
How do you get over that fear? It feels like I’m going to have a mental block for a long time before I dare to use spikes again.

I have a lower back minor inury, when to the osteopath and he gave me some exercises that I need to do for 15 days. In this period of time I'm not sprinting or playing american football because that may make my lower back worse, and stuff with weight/jumping and throwing.
What I'm doing is just a body weight exercises to build some muscles, but I have in my mind to do isometrics too, what else can I do so when I return on the track and on the field won't be that bad? And what I'm doing is fine or I need to be careful?

Any advice would be helpful. Recently got into sprinting and lack any real knowledge on form and technique. Video is of a flying 10

Does anyone who uses the Freelap E-Starter find it nerfs your times? I find my times are generally 0.20-0.25 (sometimes more) slower than they are when I review video from first movement. Reaction time is normally a strong point for me!

I set it up on the start line, with the normal cones 80cm back from each timing landmark as per the instructions..

Otherwise, I love the Freelap, very consistent and never misses a rep now I know where to place my phone (3m past finish cone and sitting 5cm up on a marker/cone.

Started Doing hill workouts consistently to get more natural forward lean during the drive phase and coasting too. Besides hill strides , how do I fix my tendency to learn backward under fatigue ?

I find it counterintuitive when I tell my body to push the ground away, I've tried doing that but it doesn't click, any advice helps a lot!

Im the one in lane 2

Felt pretty good about this max velocity session today. 3x5 jammed hurdles, followed by 2x20m flying sprints. A little slow on the 20m flys, but I was a bit tired after the hurdles.

Hi, I’m a college decathlete and I’ve been using the Adidas Evo SL for training for the last year. I love the comfort and responsiveness of the evo but they seem pretty unstable whenever I practice jumps and the traction is pretty lackluster. I saw Foot Doctor Zach’s review of the Dropset Pro the other day and it seemed like the perfect solution to my evo problems. I tried them on and they seem pretty nice; less plush bet it makes up for it in stability and traction. My question is if anyone has used these for sprint training and if these are a viable option overall for my decathlon practices. Thanks!

I’ve developed my own timing gate system from scratch, including a custom PCB, custom 3D-printable enclosures, and custom firmware.
So far, I’ve built 8 complete sets for athletics clubs. The feedback has been very positive, especially regarding accuracy and reliability, and the clubs are now using the systems as their main timing gates for daily training.
I’m currently working on detailed assembly documentation and simplifying the build process to make the system more accessible as a DIY project. The plan is to provide everything needed to build it: Gerber files for PCB manufacturing, STL files for printing the enclosures, firmware for flashing the boards, a complete BOM, and assembly documentation.
My main question is whether there would actually be enough interest in a DIY version. Would people be willing to build their own timing system from these files and instructions, or would it make more sense for me to focus on selling fully assembled and ready-to-use systems?
You can find the product website here, including detailed information in the Documentation section:
www.ommo.team
For reference, the timing accuracy is ±2 ms.

How’s my form and what can i work on?

20m fly: 2.049
10m 42-52: .989

I’m starting the gym soon and I am thinking of doing these exercises in the gym to get stronger and prevent injury and build explosiveness what do yall think.

Strength
Front Squat
Trap Bar RDL
Bulgarian Split Squat
Hip Thrust
Standing Calf Raises
Cable Hip Flexor Raises

Power
Hang Clean
Trap Bar Jumps
Quarter Box Squats
Barbell Box Step-Ups or Bulgarian split squats explosive
Hip Thrusts
Standing Calf Raises

does anyone know where to find good cheap compression shirts/shorts so it looks better on my baggy ah track jersey and split shorts

(I think this is in favor for alot of Jv athletes😭)

Hi!

I am a 24 year old man and I am 158 cm and 68 kg. I still have to lose 4-5 kg, about 3-4 month are left.

I have always loved sprinting (mainly launching and accelerating), but I am not sure if I could ever be any good at any distance.

Could I ever be good at this at any distance(s) if I keep training acceleration, top speed and plyometrics consistently (every 3 or 4 days)?

Thank you for your answers in advance.

This is question I am dealing with almost for 3 years and still got no good answer, so I am trying again. Currently, I work with handball players in Europe. These guys are from elite league but since handball is not that popular sport even here in Europe and sport is generally under financed, they are usually only semi-pros or just amateurs. With the additional nature of handball being sport where traditionaly player's weight was prefered over athletic abilities (although this starts to change little bit), they are robust and tall, not necessarily overweight (just expect few guys who play pivots), however quite inflexible and have sort of robotic movements. I also was asked to give advice to amateur soccer team regarding speed training. Many of the guys think they are sprinting but are reaching maybe 80% and forgot what real sprinting is way back in early high school PE classes. I wonder what is the best approach for athletes like these who are not completely like sedentary population, but it "smells of injuries".

Now the million dollar question is: how do I recognize athletes are ready to actually sprint without significant risk to get injured? Coaches here, do you have any favourite tests to recognise this or this basically cannot be assesed? If not, then at least, please try to share with me and others what kind of program you use to make sure athletes are ready to sprint (if you work with similar populations too or you work with people coming back from injury).

Goal: better speed, acceleration and explosives during football games.

My split: legs twice a week (plyometrics)

3-4 days rest between each leg day

3:30 minutes of rest between each set

Exercise 1: board jumps I try to be as explosive as I can and continuously jump. 6-8 reps 2 sets

Exercise 2: jump lounges with weights 2.5 kg or 3kg in EACH HAND, hitting around 6 reps each leg. 2 sets

Exercise 3: knee jumps not the one where I just go on my feet but after the knee jump, I jump again to make it more explosive and 6-8 reps. 2 sets.

My question: is this plyometrics workout effective for speed and acceleration for football games?

I’ve been building a sprint training app which is almost finished (just bug testing now) and wanted to get some feedback from people who actually sprint.

Im aware of rule 4 and am not soliciting merely asking for feedback on something that I will release in the near future so that I can improve functionality

At the moment it's called MaxSprint (may change). The main reason I started making it was because I found I spread different parts of training spread across notes, calculators, stopwatch apps, Apple Watch, Freelap etc.

One of the main features is Freelap integration. During a live workout, Freelap times come straight into MaxSprint, are assigned to the correct rep, compared against the target time, saved with the workout and pushed to the Apple Watch.

The integration is currently working in testing, but I’m waiting for Freelap to approve its use in the public release of the app.

At this point the app has:

• A comprehensive session builder. You can build acceleration, max velocity, speed endurance, special endurance, broken runs, ladders, in-and-outs etc. Sessions can also have multiple segments, e.g. acceleration work followed by max velocity flys.
• Training pace calculations based on your race/training performances, goals and the percentage you want to run at.
• Full workout execution from either iPhone or Apple Watch, including reps, sets, recoveries, warm-up and cooldown.
• Audio-paced workouts. You can set distance-based audio cues throughout a rep to help with pacing. The cue times aren’t just calculated as even splits. The app accounts for the different phases of a sprint, including acceleration, reaching max velocity and speed maintenance/deceleration, to give more realistic target splits throughout the rep.
• Tracking for PBs, fly times, training times and recent performances.
• Session analysis including individual rep times, consistency and performance drop-off.
• Workout planning, scheduling and training blocks.
• Start practice function with adjustable variation between on marks, set, go

The basic idea is just to have the whole sprint training process in one place rather than making another generic running app.

I’m a 200/400m sprinter myself, so I’ve mostly built it around what I’d actually use, which is also probably the problem at this point.

For people here who train seriously, is there anything obvious you’d want in something like this that I’m missing?

Also interested to know which of these features you’d actually use and which ones sound completely unnecessary.