800m Training: Pre-race Day
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📌 KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Three goals: Neuromuscularly ready, mentally ready, no carry-over fatigue
- Start with Jeff Boelé's dynamic warm-up (13 min, all three planes of motion)
- 5-10 min easy run → skipping/sprint drills → spike up
- Â Key workout: 3 x 150m In-n-Outs (50m build, 50m fast at 92-96%, 50m run out)
- Then 2 x 200m at race pace: First from standing start, second with 20m run-in
- Cues: "Up tall" and "fast and relaxed" — never give more tha...
How to Warm-up Between Races
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📌 KEY TAKEAWAYS
- After the first race, take 10–15 minutes to feel mostly normal, then do a quick 6-exercise mobility routine (iron cross, low whips, groiners, reach under/up, cat-cow, side bends) before hydrating and refueling.
- Use an adjusted Jeff Boele warm-up for the second race: 20m of dynamic drills, wall/fence exercises (leg swings, hurdle trail leg, eagles), ground exercises, then A-march and A-skip sequences.
- Skip B-march and B-skip w...