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COACHING LINKS

Below are links to useful websites containing coaching tips, athletics news and information. The aim of these links is to help the coaches and athletes of SMRAC to find technical information to help them develop.

Links
UK Athletics Details of the UKA coaching pathway can be found on this site
England Athletics Links to coaching courses can be found on this site.

Leagues and Performance
Women’s Southern League
Men’s Southern League
National Young Athletes League
UK athletics rankings The Power of 10 Rankings
UK athletics results From Athletics Weekly

General training aids
www.coachr.org A huge list of athletics and athletics related article
www.athleticscoaching.ca The Canadian Athletics coaching centre. The resource centre has great free articles and podcasts. Well worth a look and some essential listening.
coaching.uka.org.uk The UK Athletics coaching site - new and just starting to upload some decent articles
www.uksca.org.uk/uksca/common/home.asp Home page for the UK Strength and Conditioning Association
www.topendsports.com A wide range of information about sports, science, fitness and nutrition
www.momentumsports.co.uk/RunningIndex.asp This site has lots of basic information about athletics
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tvVr-Gca9FI Plyometrics Training: Hurdle Rebound Jumps 1
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jDKr5Gh9jig Dynamic warm session
Sprints
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3x1zHf9sYo IAAF – Teaching Sprints Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmQYLINJocA IAAF – Teaching Sprints Part 3
www.nacactfca.org/articles/Hart-eng.htm 400m training article by Clyde Hart (coach to Michael Johnson)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUrWPaV9tKY Club member - Korane Idarousse -AAA Champs 2008 U15 Girls Heat 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KUKecORAeU Club member - Buster Watson running for GB in 1982

Hurdles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiF-yTKeO2o IAAF – Teaching Sprint hurdles Part 2 for Beginners
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=svG4NfIKo08 Lead leg hurdle drill. You will also see that there are a number of other drills by the same athlete that are worth looking at.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Oosf6Sw0nPQ Knee and straight leg drive drills from www.sihunt.co.uk
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dbfz8pTSVQw One step hurdle drills
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZSgT3476gM Sprint hurdles - front view
http://www.hurdlesfirst.com/index.html A good all round hurdles site

Jumps
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WVZ3ZcorTF0 Stefan Holm hurdle drill
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ASmQrDIsDA0 The Ritzdorf Drill - good for getting athletes to get leg pull over the bar
Teaching the Triple Jump (PDF) A good article by Harvey Riekoff of Washington Park High School on Teaching the Triple Jump