Timothy Coles

Math teacher, football, wrestling, and track coach for Chapman

[Timothy Coles @TimothyColes3]

Wrestling Scoresheet

https://t.co/OF8aF9uR4g

Below is a link to a google sheet that anyone can view, and make a copy if need to customize for your own team

@ChapmanIrishWr1 @yiannidiako_LGR @USAWrestling @Benaskren @CMacNeil_iii @awawisconsin

[Timothy Coles @TimothyColes3]

@ThadWells Bet

[Tony Holler @pntrack]

Pillars #9 & #10 of Feed the Cats are considered “soft” to many traditional coaches.

9) Make practice the best part of a kid’s day.

10) Kids are good at what they like, obsessed with what they love.

The traditional, old-school approach is to do random “hard things” to become mentally tough. (If practice is hard, games will be easy.)

“Whatever doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger.” ~Nietzsche

The better approach ⬇️

“Often times, the ones that are successful loved what they did so they could persevere when it got really tough.” ~Steve Jobs

[Tony Holler @pntrack]

Can’t break 50 in the 400m unless you can break 23 in the 200m.

Can’t break 23 in the 200m unless you can break 11.50 in the 100m.

Can’t break 11.50 in 100m unless you can hit 21.3 to 22.0 mph in a short fly.

The 400 doesn’t care about your mileage.

[Timothy Coles @TimothyColes3]

@tad_remy Make sure it’s about 20 live jumps. After 10-20 repeat 200s

[Tony Holler @pntrack]

From one of the best college 400m coaches in the country, @CoachErnieClark, commenting on Quincy Hall.

"Maybe cross country taught him to be mentally tough and/or learn to work through fatigue better than others. And that’s a BIG maybe. But there are no significant gains from running cross country in high school that helped him sprint 43.40 and become the 400m Olympic Champion as a 26 year old."

and...

"There is no such thing as a *kick* in the 400m."

➡️ The 400 is a sprint. ⚡️⚡️⚡️

[Tony Holler @pntrack]

Takeaways:

1) Max velocity almost always wins and we should train accordingly.

2) High max velocity is a function of the CNS. The same CNS is fundamental to acceleration. Fast guys are good accelerators, slow guys aren’t. Speed is the tide that lifts all boats.

3) Lyles running a 21.7 mph average from 10-20m is more impressive than it looks. My fastest HS sprinters might hit a 20 mph average from 10-20m.

4) Acceleration is coachable and critically important in a race decided by tenths, hundredths, or even thousandths of a second, but the true differentiator will always be max speed.

10.70 sprinter 10-20m ➡️ ~20 mph
9.70 sprinter 10-20m ➡️ ~22 mph

10.70 sprinter 60-70m ➡️ ~23+ mph
9.70 sprinter 60-70m ➡️ ~27+ mph

Don’t understand coaches who denigrate max velocity training.

[Timothy Coles @TimothyColes3]

@CFBRep @3YearLetterman how do you feel about Georgia’s numbers being this high?

[Tony Holler @pntrack]

Slowest guy at the half-way point in last night’s 400 finals?

21.91

Michael Norman was at 20.90.

Best way to get good at the 400? Get good in the 200.

Can’t run at a speed you can’t achieve.

[Timothy Coles @TimothyColes3]

2024 Irish Football schedule

[Tad Remy @tad_remy]

Incredible day on the river

[Timothy Coles @TimothyColes3]

@tad_remy I would describe it as indescribable

[Timothy Coles @TimothyColes3]

@CMacNeil_iii Congrats Mac!

[Timothy Coles @TimothyColes3]

Retiring the 8th Grade girls baton today. They crushed the previous record by over a second. Proud of these girls and their work ethic the past 2 seasons.

[Timothy Coles @TimothyColes3]

@tad_remy @SC_Track_Field How many repeat 400s did you do everyday to get to a time like that?

[IrishAthletics @473IrishAD]

New Story: 5/6: Boys Basketball Staff Complete https://t.co/9D5OhQK56v

[Jeremy Frisch @JeremyFrisch]

10 ways to improve athleticism in young athletes:
1. Jumping: no there is no such thing as jumping slow. Jump up, jump down, jump over, side to side and all around...
2. Sprinting: best age to develop speed is between 7-11 years of age. Start short 10 yds move to longer distances.
3. Calisthenics: the simple stuff that nobody does anymore. Jumping jacks, skips, hops, burpees, twisting, reaching and balancing on one foot.
4. Racing and Chasing: nobody runs slow being chased or chasing someone.
5. Strength: monkey bars, bearcrawls, wrestling, climb a tree, mow the lawn etc...
6. Pick-up: any game football, baseball, basketball, wiffleball etc...without the intervention of any adults what so ever.
7. Tag: develops all around agility. Sprinting, stopping, starting and all around good fun.
8. Stop playing one sport all year around
9. Limit screen time to one hour per day.
10. Take 10 to 15 minutes at the beginning of every sport practice and work on numbers 1 through 5...
#LTAD

[IrishAthletics @473IrishAD]

New Story: Please welcome new head football coach, Jason Grider https://t.co/ftIfnAER0V

[Timothy Coles @TimothyColes3]

@mckallal @pntrack @Coach_Rathke Last year as the MS sprints and horizontal jumps coach I did similar to what Tony talks about Head coach said the whole team had to have a running workout
Based on early practice times I created a speed group for myself and gave the other coaches the rest
My group was FTC

[Tony Shiffman @CoachShiffman]

Did you DEVELOP or did you INHERIT?

Know the difference between the two

[Tad Remy @tad_remy]

Elite hour day 2. @pride_sc @coachakingsbury