Systems of Training the Middle Distance - Lance Harter (AR)

by Texas Track & Field Coaches Association

Description

Want a new method for training your middle distance runner? Then you've come to the right place! In this course, Coach Lance Harter explains different systems of training for middle distance runners you need to know to enhance your athletes running capabilities. He includes things like:

Arkansas Energy Plans
Weekly Plan
Monthly Plan
Plans for Beginner and Veteran Athletes

On top of all of that, he even reveals a seasonal workload that will help your athletes improve their times.

Lessons

Getting Started

1 Introduction 0:59 2 James Bond 0:35 3 Race Energy Systems 1:49 4 Rest, Regeneration, or Recovery - Periodization 2:40 5 Focus Of the Basics 4:00 6 Develop a Timeline 0:50 7 The Plan 4:19 8 Roadblocks 0:30

Training

9 Arkansas Energy Systems - Part 1 3:48 10 Arkansas Energy Systems - Part 2 2:59 11 Week Plan 2:33 12 Newcomer Plan 1:17 13 Veteran Athlete Plan 1:25 14 Monthly Plan 3:28 15 Atributes of a Coach 3:29 16 Identify with Every Athlete 0:56 17 Seasonal Workload 2:25 18 Supplemental Training 1:05 19 Foundation to Build a Champion 0:16

Q&A

20 Q&A 0:29

The Coach

Texas Track & Field Coaches Association

Lance Harter | University of Arkansas

Coach Lance Harter has been the Head Coach of the Arkansas Track & Field Program for 31 years now. He is considered the most successful coach at the University of Arkansas Women's Head Track & Field and Cross Country Coach and for the Southeastern Conference.

While coaching at Arkansas, his programs won every conference title from the 2014 SEC Outdoor Championships to the 2018 SEC Indoor Championships, winning 12 straight titles, and became the first program since LSU in 1987-91 to four-peat at the conference outdoor championships in 2017.

Through the 2015 outdoor season, the Razorbacks have finished third or better in 78 percent (56 of 72) of SEC Championship meets under his watch. Arkansas has never finished lower than third at an SEC cross country meet.

Coaching Achievements