The Fast Lane:

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Home

HOME has a news page, a contact page and a site map for a quick overview.

Training

A complete overview of training principles, building blocks, scheduling and phasing, completed with scientific articles and real-life tips & examples.

CONTENT:
Training Principles 
Building Blocks 
Training Schedules
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Racing

Advice for optimizing your performance, via clever tactics or a perfect preparation, Evaluate your performance with the Hungarian Scoring Tables.

CONTENT:
Racing Strategies
Mental Preparation
Analyzing Performances
Going for Gold
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Drugs & Medicine

Racing faster is more than just training more and harder. Live a healthy life.

CONTENT:
Nutrition
Legal Supplements
Illegal Substances
Common Injuries
Muscles
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Discussion

Post your opinion and discuss training, nutrition etc. with others.

Links

Discover the world of Athletics via these cool hyperlinks.

CONTENT:
Federations, Organizations
Belgian Clubs
Clubs around the world
Meets and Results
Statistics
Health
Training and Racing
Athlete's Pages
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My Running

There's more to it than theory. Try it yourself! Or would you rather check out my schedules and results first?

Training and Racing

 Training and Coaching

General Training principles

Sportscience

One of the very best sites on sports science with many articles on nutrition, training and performance strategies. The main feature of the site is the journal Sportscience.

Volumes and Issues of Coaching Science Abstracts

These abstracts interpret research articles for practicing coaches and others interested in applied sport science. They are drawn from the personal files of Professor Rushall. Some dated articles are included because their content is still current. Most articles are interpreted for coaches of elite athletes and programs.

Runner's World - Training and Racing

Runner's World gives advice for the endurance athlete with a focus on the marathon runner.

ATHLED

This website (French only!) offers training advice (with examples of weekly sessions) for the middle-distance runner.

Run-insight.com

Information on altitude training, aerobic vs anaerobic training, steeplechase training, summer and winter training, pre-race warmup methods and weight training for runners

Coachr.com

Training advice for beginners to world class athletes on all track and field events. The information is for 30+ athletes.

Training of Champion Middle Distant Runners

Just one page, but with interesting information on how the world leading athletes perform their training. Contains articles on training sessions by Haile Gebreselassie, Japhet Kimutai, Nourredine Morceli, Hicham El Guerrouj, Paul Tergat, Kip Keino and others.

OZTRACK

OZTRACK contains excellent tips on track and field training for the intermediate and high-level runner.

The 800 m Home Page

Statistics, athletes, and training for 800m.

Coaches Education

Coaches Education shares theoretical and practical articles and information on various track and field disciplines.

Colorado Altitude Training

Colorado Altitude Training shows the benefits of altitude training and proves this with a number of scientific articles.

Warming-up and Stretching

Stretching and Flexibility: Everything you never wanted to know

These pages are among the best stretching pages on the web and describe flexibility, muscle types, types of stretching, how to stretch and much more.

SportsMed Web

SportsMed Web has a section on stretching (illustrated with images), and includes some good articles on physioogy and nutrition.

Dossier: le Stretching

AthléLive explains some of the stretching principles with actual examples of stretching exercises. (Only in French.)

 Racing

Performance Measurement

Hungarian Scoring Tables (men) - short version (81 KB)

Hungarian Scoring Tables (for men). Short version from 0 - 1400 pts with intervals of 10 pts.
Includes: 100m, 200m, 300m, 400m, 600m, 800m, 1000m, 1500m, Mile, 2000m, 3000m, 5000m, 10000m, Marathon, 110mH, 400mH, 2000m S, 3000m S, High, Pole V, Long, Triple, Shot Put, Discus, Hammer, Javelin, 4x100m, 4x200m, 4x400m, 20K walk, 50K walk.

Hungarian Scoring Tables (women) - short version (75KB)

Hungarian Scoring Tables (for women). Short version from 0 - 1400 pts with intervals of 10 pts.
Includes: 100m, 200m, 300m, 400m, 600m, 800m, 1000m, 1500m, Mile, 2000m, 3000m, 5000m, 10000m, Marathon, 100mH, 400mH, 2000m S, High, Pole V, Long, Triple, ShotPut, Discus, Hammer, Javelin, 4x100m, 4x200m, 4x400m, 10K walk.

Hungarian Scoring Tables (men) - long version ZIPPED (242 KB)

Hungarian Scoring Tables (for men). Long version from 0 - 1400 pts with intervals of 1 pts.
Includes (on top of short version): 50m i, 55m i, 60m i, 200m i, 300m i, 400m i, 500m i, 800m i, 1000m i, 1500m i, Mile i, 2000m i, 3000m i, 5000m i, 50mH i, 55mH i, 60mH i, High i, Pole V i, Long i, Triple i, Shot Put i, 4x200m i, 4x400m i, 320mH, 1500m S, 3K walk 5K walk.

Hungarian Scoring Tables (women) - long version ZIPPED (228 KB)

Hungarian Scoring Tables (for women). Long version from 0 - 1400 pts with intervals of 1 pts.
Includes (on top of short version): 50m i, 55m i, 60m i, 200m i, 300m i, 400m i, 500m i, 800m i, 1000m i, 1500m i, Mile i, 2000m i, 3000m i,5000m i, 50mH i, 55mH i, 60mH i, 320mH, 2000m S, High i, Pole V i, Long i, Triple i, Shot Put i, 4x200m i, 4x400m i, 2K walk, 3K walk

Hungarian Scoring Tables (men) - long version (1421 KB)

Hungarian Scoring Tables (for men). Long version from 0 - 1400 pts with intervals of 1 pts.
Includes (on top of short version): 50m i, 55m i, 60m i, 200m i, 300m i, 400m i, 500m i, 800m i, 1000m i, 1500m i, Mile i, 2000m i, 3000m i, 5000m i, 50mH i, 55mH i, 60mH i, High i, Pole V i, Long i, Triple i, Shot Put i, 4x200m i, 4x400m i, 320mH, 1500m S, 3K walk 5K walk.

Hungarian Scoring Tables (women) - long version (1348 KB)

Hungarian Scoring Tables (for women). Long version from 0 - 1400 pts with intervals of 1 pts.
Includes (on top of short version): 50m i, 55m i, 60m i, 200m i, 300m i, 400m i, 500m i, 800m i, 1000m i, 1500m i, Mile i, 2000m i, 3000m i,5000m i, 50mH i, 55mH i, 60mH i, 320mH, 2000m S, High i, Pole V i, Long i, Triple i, Shot Put i, 4x200m i, 4x400m i, 2K walk, 3K walk

Links:

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FEDERATIONS & ORGANIZATIONS:

- Supranational Athletics Federations
- International Organizations
- National Federations

BELGIAN CLUBS:

- Flanders - Vlaamse Atletiek Liga (VAL)
- Wallonia - Ligue Belge Francophone d'Athlétisme (LBFA)

ATHLETICS CLUBS AROUND THE WORLD:

- Africa
- Americas
- Asia
- Europe
- Oceania

MEETS AND RESULTS:

- World Championships
- IAAF Grand Prix
- European Championships
- EAA Meets
- Miscellaneous

STATISTICS:

- World Records
- World Best Performances
- World Lists
- Continental Records
- Continental Best Performances
- Continental Lists
- National Records
- National Lists
- Miscellaneous

HEALTH:

- Nutrition and Drugs
- Injuries and Diseases

TRAINING & RACING:

- Training and Coaching
- Racing

ATHLETE'S PAGES:

- Men
- Women

MISCELLANEOUS:

- Links 2 Links