Pole vault speed

[ryansanta]

sounds much like plyometric hurdles to me

[scubastevesgirly]

sounds much like plyometric hurdles to me

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[dj]

agapit

i don't believe working on your pole carry, pole drop, speed, rhythm into a towel/plant by doing pole runs on the track would train anything that you don't need on the runway... if so, of course you would be doing the exercise wrong...

this exercise is the absolute best method to obtain a fast, accurate, technically sound approach run...not the only one.... but will help everyone.

some training with the sprinters, running hurdles and running the 4 x 100 relay can be a good thing but doing intervals of distances of more than 150/200 meters in an effort to be a 400 meter runner... will not give you anthing that you could not get in the weight room in less time and without as great of a risk of getting injured.. that type of training has a way of teaching the runner how to over stride... can create hamstring problems and develops the opposite to proper speed running form... speed comes from the push not a pull, and less ground contact .... not more...and to push corecctly the body mass has to be in front of the foot strike......

to run fast with the pole properly... the athlete has to practice running fast with the pole properly...

now to the pole carry … I believe in the pole drop.. at least in the context that you do not want the pole to create anymore resistance than necessary during the run. Resistance that may cause the athlete to have to change the proper running form and speed.

Let me explain it this way.. REMEMBER this is an explanation of the physics involved not how the pole is carried........

Stand…. holding the pole vertical, top of the pole is balanced on 2 fingers… let the tip start dropping.. as it drops raise the hand up past the eye to above the head… that’s a pole drop. The tip will drop 32 ft per sec sq..+-…

I am not saying start your carry with the tip that high but the closer the pole carry and drop is to this action the better.

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