I fully realize that for some people, the outdoor track and field season got underway a couple weeks ago now. In fact, we had the first big relay meet of the year last weekend (Florida Relays; no disrespect to meets like the Raleigh Relays) and the Texas Relays take place this weekend. Unfortunately I won’t [...]

Usually after about a couple months of training my coach has our training group do some jump testing. You’ve heard this before since my blog is a little over a year old at this point and I wrote about my November jump tests last year. Just like last year, I did my first jump test [...]

I haven’t gotten to do jump testing just yet but I figured I’d share some results from the couple of tests that I did with the George Mason team a couple of weeks back. Besides, better to share them now before they’re too old and no longer relevant. It’s always fun to test though, even [...]

Now that I’m no longer in school and since I won’t be knee deep in bar exam preparations for about another month, I have more free time than I’ve had at any other point in my life. It’s true though, that training takes up a bit more time now than it did in previous years [...]

Viktor Saneyev competed for the former Soviet Union in the triple jump from the 1960s all the way into the 1980s. He won 3 straight Olympic titles and grabbed a silver in his 4th Olympic Games in Moscow (1980). Along the way he was of course a several time European champion and also managed to [...]

Monday evening happened to be the first time I’ve laid eyes on my jump spikes since August 16th; the date of the qualifying round for the Men’s Triple Jump in Berlin. True story. I even joked with my training partners about how I had to clean out some remnants of “Berlin sand” before I put [...]

A few times a year, my coach will have my training group perform some jump testing. The exercises are performed from a 6 step approach and include 4 hops (each leg is tested), 2 hops-2 steps, 4 steps and occasionally 3 hops-1 step. It is tough to gauge what the distances mean on their own, [...]