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A Fourth Excerpt from The Spiritual Dimension of Hurdling
A Fourth Excerpt from The Spiritual Dimension of Hurdling by Steve McGill To progress as a hurdler, and to make hurdling easier, requires harmonizing its three main components: technique, rhythm, and speed. All three are interrelated and interdependent. Technique affects rhythm and rhythm affects speed and speed affects technique, etc. Which of the three is...
When Parents Want to Coach
When Parents Want to Coach by Steve McGill Dealing with parents is a basic element of coaching at the youth level and high school level. For me, over the past thirty years, I’ve had extremely few issues with parents. The large majority appreciate the work I do, stay out of the way when it comes...
If you Can’t Think it, if you Can’t Feel it, You Can’t Do it
If you Can’t Think it, if you Can’t Feel it, You Can’t Do it by Steve McGill For hurdlers to get the most out of their potential, they need to be able to think the event and feel the event. To “think” the event means, primarily, to be a student of one’s own technique, one’s...
More Speed, More Problems
More Speed, More Problems by Steve McGill When I was coaching Brandon Johnson, who is currently competing for the University of Cincinnati, we had a mantra that we repeated over and over again throughout his last two years of high school: create the problem so we can fix the problem. And the problem we were...
Workout: Five-stepping followed by Block Starts
Workout: Five-stepping followed by Block Starts by Steve McGill There was a time about seven years ago when I decided that there was no point in doing any drills that didn’t involve three-stepping. I basically eliminated all one-stepping and five-stepping from my drill repertoire, with the logic being that I wanted my athletes to ingrain...
