Forums >General Running>What is your opinion of Alberto Salazar as a coach?
Feeling the growl again
Yeah, and funnier even that he was able to make a thread about Salazar about him.
Everything is about SJ, we're just too arrogant to admit it.
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The biggest difference between myself and track and field, is that no track coach can teach what I do....
I don't teach people to run, I teach people to move.
There isn't much application to running around in circles in real life. I took on the testing challenge and passed it.
Experts said the world is flat
Experts said that man would never fly
Experts said we'd never go to the moon
Name me one of those "experts"...
History never remembers the name of experts; just the innovators who had the guts to challenge and prove the "experts" wrong
I didn't make it about me. The question was an "opinion" about Salazar, I gave mine...
Did it ever occur to you guys that you may be debating with a highly-sarcastic teenager whose hobbies include racing the mile, looking at porn, posting on letsrun, and looking at porn?
"If you have the fire, run..." -John Climacus
Impossible. Sports Jester just admitted to not running track and field anymore.
The rest I could believe.
Did it ever occur to you guys that you may be debating with a highly-sarcastic teenager whose hobbies include racing the mile playing Xbox in their mother's basement, looking at porn, posting on letsrun, and looking at porn?
FTFY
"He conquers who endures" - Persius "Every workout should have a purpose. Every purpose should link back to achieving a training objective." - Spaniel
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That's kinda the whole point of running. If there were no point to it, why were you so desperate to get Salazar, Burfoot et al to listen to you? Why is it so important to you to spend time here claiming to know so much more about running to everyone when "you don't teach how to run", and "there isn't much application in real life"?
If you don't believe in USATF's style of coaching, why did you compromise your principles to gain their certification?
I think the truth is much sadder than that.
That's kinda the whole point of running. If there were no point to it, why were you so desperate to get Salazar, Burfoot et al to listen to you? Why is it so important to you to spend time here claiming to know so much more about running to everyone when "you don't teach how to run", and "there isn't much application in real life"? If you don't believe in USATF's style of coaching, why did you compromise your principles to gain their certification?
To better understand the mistakes in training that they preach. That's why teaching someone to be faster is so easy....
Why do you spend time on endeavors you find little use for in real life?
Who of any significance have you trained to be faster? Last I checked Salazar's athletes have set a few records. Perhaps you've at least got some local race winners?
The biggest difference between myself and track and field, is that no track coach can teach what I do.... I don't teach people to run, I teach people to move. There isn't much application to running around in circles in real life. I took on the testing challenge and passed it.
Then why do you call yourself a running coach? Why do you make a big deal about being USATF certified?
Just as an aside, there probably aren't that many track coaches that want to teach what you do. Their emphasis is on making people faster, not teaching people how to stop.
If you want to bother people, you should try getting hired by a professional sports team. I'm sure they'd be more than willing to take on a trainer that will prevent their athletes from tearing an ACL.
There was a point in my life when I ran. Now, I just run.
We are always running for the thrill of it
Always pushing up the hill, searching for the thrill of it
If the question is top runners, I don't have an Uncle Phil to buy them for me to play with and injure. Rupp, Goucher (who left Nike due to Salazar's "brilliance"). I'm still waiting for Salazar to train someone to take the Kenyan crown. For all the athlete Phil bought for him, he has yet to do anything useful with them.
Track doesn't pay any shoe company's bills. Its the recreational road runner who buys the vast majority of product.
Which is why I spend a lot of time with military teaching them how to move carrying 115lbs of personal equipment.
People at risk of ACL tears are much more interested in learning how to run than those going round and round a track....
Yet training a football team, I was able to impact a program that was 2-7 in 2010 to the second best turnaround in college football last season with their 7-5 record....
You may not like what I write, but running backs do.
If the question is top runners, I don't have an Uncle Phil to buy them for me to play with and injure. Rupp, Goucher (who left Nike due to Salazar's "brilliance"). I'm still waiting for Salazar to train someone to take the Kenyan crown. For all the athlete Phil bought for him, he has yet to do anything useful with them. Track doesn't pay any shoe company's bills. Its the recreational road runner who buys the vast majority of product. Which is why I spend a lot of time with military teaching them how to move carrying 115lbs of personal equipment. People at risk of ACL tears are much more interested in learning how to run than those going round and round a track.... Yet training a football team, I was able to impact a program that was 2-7 in 2010 to the second best turnaround in college football last season with their 7-5 record.... You may not like what I write, but running backs do.
Then why are you on a running website? What does the average recreational road runner have to do with the military? Other than my SEAL buddy I don't know any military that runs more than they need to in order to squeak by their 2-mile PT test.
Not that my SEAL, Ranger or general Army acquaintances have heard of you either.
So you were calling the plays for this football team?
So instead of coming up with something original, you just wait for the real coaches to create a training philosophy and then feebly attempt to poke holes in them? Wont you better serve your purpose by doing something completely independent, where you dont have to say Salazar sucks to make yourself look good? If you are defining your role as a coach purely in relation to doing something that Salazar or anybody else doesnt, i think it really help anyone, whether they are racing or carrying weights or simply observing this thread.
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I'm not sure if this article has been posted in a thread hijacked by SJ, but I'm posting it anyways.
http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-627-people_say_im_crazy.html
If it really is the same guy, and it sounds like it is, I don't think anyone is ever convincing him of anything. I also feel really sorry for him.