Legendary Australian Athlete, Coach, and Parent, Melinda Gainsford-Taylor shares her tips and experience in the sport.

Listen now to Episode 279 of GAINcast with Vern Gambetta, a production of HMMR Media. This episode explores athlete profiling with Jason Hettler, head strength and conditioning coach at the IMG Academy.

Watch a replay of the information session for athletes, parents, and coaches of prospective members of the Australian team to the 2024 World Para Athletics Championships in Kobe, Japan.

This information session is designed to help athletes, coaches, parents, and other support staff understand important concepts of the World U20 Championships, including: The role of the World U20s in the athlete pathway, location and performance implications, competition structure, post-selection planning, and team coaches

In this article, former-Middle Distance athlete Marius Bakken explains the Norweigan Approach to endurance training. This includes a strong focus on anaerobic threshold training, including double-daily threshold training, longer single anaerobic threshold sessions, and experimenting with treadmill running.

Learn from Athletics Australia’s Lead Physiologist, Avish Sharma and Bryce Anderson as they make evidence informed recommendations for when, why, and how altitude training may be incorporated into an athletes’ training plan.

Core strength is a great asset for all Track and Field athletes.

Both traditional and modified plank exercises have been shown to effectively enhance core muscle endurance, strength, and dynamic stability. Check out this plank series that you can use with athletes of any event group.

Jonathan Taylor explains the development in footwear technology that is driving increased performances on the Track and Road.

Colleen Quigley is a long-distance runner and specialized in steeplechase. The Team USA athlete is going to show you some exercises for your hip strength and hip mobility which is very important for every runner, especially steeplechasers and hurdlers.

• Walk Over Drill

• Over/Under Drill

• Can Can Drill

This presentation by the Chair of Selectors, Peter Hamilton, introduces the relevant policy for athlete selection for 2024 World U20 Championships.

Coaches have long thought hurdlers and sprinters start their races differently. However, research analysing World Class sprinters and hurdlers show that sprinters and hurdlers aren’t as different as you think out of the blocks.

In this special Coach Education Townhall, Brian Roe explains the 2023 changes to World Athletics rules and how they will affect coaches and athletes.

In all sprint running races (100m to 400m), every hundredth of a second gained or lost in the race counts. But, most importantly, the fastest male and female sprinters attain incredible top running speeds, with peaks in excess of 44km per hour and 38km per hour in the men’s and women’s 100m races, for example. So what makes a fast runner?

Mike Barber explains the factors that go into a World Championship winning throw.

Most of us would assume that breathing through the mouth is the best technique to use during intense exercise, as it allows more oxygen to reach our muscles. But evidence shows the contrary – and that breathing through your nose may actually be a better technique to use during intense exercise such as running….

Find out the basic structure for building out a needs analysis and determining the priorities for your training plan this season.

Understanding running economy is essential knowledge for all distance coaches. This article covers what peer-reviewed research says about running economy, and training interventions that are the most effective for improving it.

In the International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy, Lorenz and Domzalski have released a detailed rehabilitation program for athletes returning to sprinting after a lower limb injury. The program is a simple 3-stage process with clear criteria for progression to reduce the risk of injury reoccurrence.

According to Nenad Peisker, one of Australia’s leading High Jump coaches, 90% of success in the high jump lies in an effective and consistent approach. There are a number of tools that coaches can use to measure and design an effective personalised run-up and this article will examine one of the methods that is becoming increasingly popular in America.

Assessments of body composition provide a useful tool to determine the impact of nutrition strategies and training interventions. However, in particular athletes, such activities have the potential to cause harm. Protocols should be established and implemented before, during and after assessments of body composition to reduce this risk. These guidelines seek to safeguard the athlete and apply to each individual athlete, their coach(s) and their local support network.