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I am going to use the following example as the introduction to my review of the 2022 MacDonald's Little Athletics State Championships.I trust the example makes sense and is valid. If an athlete currently has a time over the 100 meters of 13.00 seconds and was to perform at 99% of their ability then that athlete would record a performance of 13.13 seconds. The following is true if the athlete is doing repeat efforts over 100 meters at 90% intensity, the required time to obtain would be 14.30 seconds. Run too fast or too slow and the athlete risks rendering the session a...

New South Wales Masters Athletics celebrated their 50th year as an association having been established in 1971. We had to wait until March 2022 to get some of the festivities that were planned and interrupted by COVID completed. So it was only logical that we got off to a bumpy start and then got better as the competition progressed.The competition kicked off on the Friday night on the Competition Arena which threw a few athletes as they originally pitched up at the venue printed in the program, the Warm Up Track.Maximum Effort squad members opened up their accounts on Saturday...

The month of March has delivered unusual rainfall and the decision to go ahead with the Kumon Multi Carnival in Maitland, NSW was being questioned in the lead up to the 2 day event on 5th and 6th March. Those travelling on Friday night would have woken up to a different world in Maitland when the clouds held back the rain for the kids and officials to get on with the 6/7 multi-event carnival. Coco couldn't wait for her favoured throw events to come around and finished 4th overall in the 500g Discus with 23.31m and perhaps a disappointing mid...

Day 1The competition got underway on Friday 25th February just after lunch with the sprint hurdles. We had trying conditions in the wet and as you know it can play mind games with the technical events. The warm up presented some stride pattern issues to the first barrier as the rain was falling into the athletes eyes, Lily Stewart was able to adapt to her regular 9 stride to be sure of her footing while Jude Lumley was still caught between 7 or 8 striding as the wind picked up.Lily was able to run a PB in the 90mH of 14.10s...

Maximum Effort Speed & Strength Academy was founded in 2018 after some deliberation and coming together of like minded people. In the beginning we were assisting other coaches in various areas of Track & Field that included: Running and co-ordinating coaching sessions Exercise prescription in the gym Personal Training / Movement Screening for Olympic Lifts Referral to Allied Health Practitioners when we knew our intuition was saying that something just did not look or feel right Personal advice on our experiences of being an athlete that has competed at local, State, National and International level competitions During this time we...