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I have one hurdler who cant seem to get her trail leg out I've tried everything, what is one great drill i can use?

island is right, you may have to start with the hurdle lower than reg. The only other things I'd add is the concept that their trail knee should be under their underarm and that the trail leg is "just a big step", and maybe some drills where they walk along side the hurdles @ reg height just doing trail. My $.02. Good luck.

I have a hurdler who has the technique down he occasionally hits the first hurdle. Also, should the main workout be running 10H to build indurance? how do you break down the times for each hurdle if I want him, say, run a 15 or 14.9 finish. what time he should be at by the 7th hurdle to achieve a 14.9. For the 300s do you sprint them a lot or do you do a lot of variations of the 300s. Thanks young coach many ques. One more, I have three meets this week I want to use them as practice also so I wanted to work them between the tue and thurs meets not hard but some running. Then ease up on fri for the bigger meet. Is that too hard on the hurdlers.

As far as touchdown times here is a link http://www.hurdlesfirst.com/touchdowncharts.htm As far as training I have always concentrated the training of my sprint and 300m hurdle kids on the 300s as this event requires the most conditioning of the two. However, you must also spend some time on hurdle technique. I always like repeat 200m over hurdles. Five to six reps early in the season with about 4 minutes rest between. Later in the season reduce the reps and increase the rest as you are going for quality instead of quantity. As far as three meets in a week, that is a lot of pounding for most hurdlers. If you run them hard over hurdles in the first two meets I would be very easy on them in between. I always like to see my hurdlers get into the 4X400 relay as that is excellent condition for the sprint or 300 hurdles. Hope this helps.