I think through my career the best coaching and and advisory that I've been given through my sports career especially was to just be myself and have confidence because when you go out into the real world you really only have yourself and there's a lot of people in the world that aren't worried about what you're doing so if you're gonna be the only one worried about what you're doing that's gonna be the biggest impact you have on your life because at the end of the day no one's coming to save you so it's really impactful for you to , you know , reconcile with yourself and make sure that you show up for yourself every . Single day first and foremost to make me a better track runner , my training regimen is all about consistency , you know , especially with being a long sprinter , you want to make sure you're having the perfect amount of , well , perfect doesn't exist , but you want to make sure you're having a good amount of speed endurance days , a good amount of power days , speed days . So you know , usually we're on a 4 day training split because we have a meet on the weekend or we're off on one day .
Single day first and foremost to make me a better track runner , my training regimen is all about consistency , you know , especially with being a long sprinter , you want to make sure you're having the perfect amount of , well , perfect doesn't exist , but you want to make sure you're having a good amount of speed endurance days , a good amount of power days , speed days . So you know , usually we're on a 4 day training split because we have a meet on the weekend or we're off on one day . So you know we're powering through these workouts on on strength days Mondays , Wednesdays and Thursdays and then Mondays , Wednesdays and Fridays we have our speed .
So you know , usually we're on a 4 day training split because we have a meet on the weekend or we're off on one day . So you know we're powering through these workouts on on strength days Mondays , Wednesdays and Thursdays and then Mondays , Wednesdays and Fridays we have our speed . is obviously competition on the weekends , so you just want to make sure that you're having a good balance of how you're how you're reacting with your body and how you're adapting with the power , the speed , and then obviously the recovery , the nutrition , because that's more important than getting faster or getting stronger , getting bigger because that is how you get bigger , faster , stronger , making sure you're getting around the protein in , especially for a track athlete , getting the carbs in , getting the greens in .
So making all of it come together collectively is most important for a track athlete and any athlete . I think one of the most specific things that we focus on nutrition wise and you know , nitty gritty training wise is making sure that we're getting our mechanics down so you know , the arm swing because running is a science sprinting is definitely art so there's a lot of things that go into it . So you don't want to make sure that you're just sprinting your fastest , but how you sprint your fastest and how you sprint your fastest is making sure that you're getting your knee drive up , you're getting your through the toes , you're pushing through and and there are a lot of different phases of this that this can look a lot of different ways from a sprinter who's 58 .
So you know we're powering through these workouts on on strength days Mondays , Wednesdays and Thursdays and then Mondays , Wednesdays and Fridays we have our speed . is obviously competition on the weekends , so you just want to make sure that you're having a good balance of how you're how you're reacting with your body and how you're adapting with the power , the speed , and then obviously the recovery , the nutrition , because that's more important than getting faster or getting stronger , getting bigger because that is how you get bigger , faster , stronger , making sure you're getting around the protein in , especially for a track athlete , getting the carbs in , getting the greens in . So making all of it come together collectively is most important for a track athlete and any athlete .
