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Unless you're doing a ludicrous amount of straight poling, it's unlikely that is the cause of your fatigue. If you're really that drained you should probably look at how much sprinting you're doing, lifting and your programming in general. Also diet, sleep and stress management are huge. You are lik...

little late now, but no. Wait to see what your doctor says.

The main problem lies within the non-scoring nature of NCAA Track and Field in the first place. High school meets are far more competitive than college meets for the sole reason that they are scored. Because of this, teams actually care about winning the meet or the invite. There is a lot of pride o...

Honestly my area of expertise when it comes to gymnastics exercises per se. However I can tell you that simply being on the bar helps. Pulling yourself up in different ways, swinging around, etc. If your school has a gymnastics team, I highly encourage you to go forge a relationship with the coach/t...

What he said. But seriously, you can't disagree with me and then say "my daughter is extremely fast AND a good vaulter, except she's nowhere near as good as the terribly unathletic guys on her team." That doesn't make any sense. I also doubt that she is stronger than maybe a couple guys on...

I wouldn't focus so much on your lower abs but rather on strengthening the front of the body as a whole. High bar work is great for this. Also planks are more of an endurance test than strength (unless you put 45 lbs plates on your back). The AB wheel will help as well as improve your upper back str...

I'm sorry but I really think you're romanticizing it. Like 2020 said, college coaches are able to get decathletes to jump relatively high heights without much practice at all. I've seen it personally as well as hear of numerous stories people jumping ridiculous heights their first day. I saw Donald ...

I've been saying the same thing for almost a decade now. Usain Bolt is a better pole vaulter than Bubka. He just doesn't know it.

Pole vaulters love to have their horn tooted. When people say stuff like "You must need massive upper body strength to do that!" we proudly exclaim "Yup!" And when given the opportunity to toot our own horn we jump at the opportunity. We talk about all the fearlessness, kinesthet...

Over the years I've had lesser beings preach to me the importance of training the core and the stabilizer muscles. I have yet to hear a good reason why without someone using circular logic (because you need a strong core man!). Here's my two cents. Core strength I hate this term. I can't find two re...

It depends on a few things. If you have poor running form then simply training for the 400m won't help much and may hurt in terms of reinforcing bad form. If you have years of solid training behind you (you're in your early-mid 20s, 5.35m PR, etc.) then it will likely slow you down a bit since the l...