Alan Webb

think of,

do you remember guys remember back in the day, and this is obviously this does go over 20 years ago now, like how coming out of high school, how jacked Alan Webb appeared like physically.

And people are like, oh, he's too muscular.

He's way too muscular.

Yeah.

I mean, I remember reading an article about Alan Webb who, who-

Sure

... is about my age.

Well, cool.

I like that perspective on, on, you know, it being really difficult to actually bulk out for most people.

Alan Webbs are not that common throughout the world.

So, uh, if you're listening and scared of it, it's probably, you're probably not in that picture of being a hyper-responder.

One of his cross-country teams got a perfect score at Division II Nationals with a point score of 15.

The other coach, uh, coached, uh, people like, uh, Steve Scott, uh, Ryan Hall in high school, and Ryan was one of the top three with Ritzenheim and Alan Webb, so he's really good Anyways, we, we, um, [laughs] we were at Mount SAC.

I had a booth at Mount SAC, and they both stopped by.

And I'm asking both of them.

We can do the Lalanov fast float fast.

We can do the, you know, the Alan Webb, Scott Rasco 150s, which is every 50 meters you're building up and changing gears a l- a little bit.

We can add them up a hill component.

We can do, even do something, although it's a little more stressful, but it-- I understand why it occurs, is Lydiard would sometimes have them do strides downhill 'cause he was getting that, he didn't know it at the time, but he was getting that eccentric load to prep.

I think hill sprints are another part of that.

I think alternatively to that is integrating some simple sort of, I'll just call it prep work, strength work into your everyday runs.

And I think one of the things that I learned from training with Alan Webb and Scott Rasco is they called it general strength, you know, from Dan Pfaff and others that did this stuff.

But all you're doing is saying, "Hey," either in the warmup or the cool down period or after the run where, you know, your athletes are just shooting the shit after the run, is let's incorporate, you know, five to 10 minutes of movement prep, right? And if you do that, what you're doing is you're setting the stage for the later maybe specific strength work that you're doing.