World Class Sprinting With Jonas Dodoo | TFC Podcast Ep. 12

Allways great to hear Jonas talk!!!

Found Jonas online about 2 years ago and started following FTC earlier this year. What a combination here! Tony, love what you’re doing here! Thanks for your growing contribution!

Excellent interview with a very underrated and underknown coach. I can really resonate with what Jonas said about UK athletics clubs being a very insular and closed shop. Before I moved to the US I tried on many occasions to get involved with coaching at my old club, but the route and restrictions in place were so confining that I ended up giving up and coaching/advising people privately instead.

Chris clearly amused by Jonas' accent 😂

I was excited about this podcast. Love ya work coach!

I like this approach what Jonas talks about at the end of the video. It's like running training conjugate style, what is also the best gym protocol for the athletes in my opinion.

Thanks!

The "at least 1mph faster" theory for even pro athletes is incredible. To know they haven't been properly speed trained and to realize that you can give that gain.

Coach said in a shot where there are ten shots per second, he can find a frame where the runner looks good, but all other 9 frames the runner looks bad... Never heard that before but i believe him. It might be that one part of the motion or stride where they feel better on, but the rest of it is sloppy, not a lot of confidence or good muscle memories built in.

Great podcast! Tony, with your practices being so short, and also having so many athletes, how do you engage in dialogue with your highschoolers? Like to see how their doing?

Would you say that shin splints is a sign of overworking? And is active resting the best rest?

Have to travel nearly an hour one way to train i`m in England - Have membership with club there but would be £2 a day or they do a £50 a year pass to use the track. The school track about 15 mins away from me wants £30 an hour. This winter me and the kids will train indoors at Sheffield another hour one way drive kids £75 for 6 months I have to pay for the year £220. If you want to get ahead in athletics in the UK its best to be middle class and/or go to university. I`m a working class man but want my kids to have an opportunity so I spend the money I earn on equipment, travel and memberships for my son and niece. No wonder we aint got any sprinters in the UK, most of the best kids never get an opportunity.

Also what date are the new TFC coming online?

Have you evaluated Jamaican Sprinter Brianna Williams? I feel she stands to benefit from proper upright running mechanics. I've felt this way since 2021, she's making some improvement, but she still doesn't have that top end speed mastery from having great upright running mechanics.

Speed is the ability with the least improvements in any sport. But why?! Most people will show good improvements in strength, stamina, flexibility or whatever but rarely speed. What doesn't work? The thinking you could do exercise A to get result B. Or do this amount of work and expect this improvement, What works: Turn your brain of (no overthinking) and go with focus and instinct. You can't drill performance. Improvements will show with the right environment. Mr. Holler i don't think timing is needed to improve. Timing is good for the coach to observe. Timing can and certainly will improve motivation so it's good. But if it doesn't motivated the athlete it's useless. Motivation is the #1 performance enhancer.

Start with distance running end with speed running

To bad my coaches new nothing about this or even learned

Falling to run forward cause injuries and cause breaking force flying to run forward is most efficient way to run