This is the hardest of all the categories to calculate or measure.
The only sensible way to do it really is to look at the other variables –
compared with other athletes. It isn’t a very satisfactory from a scientific
point of view, but is a useful exercise.
Video analysis of athletes performing specific tasks for comparison will
often show an educated eye where an athlete is losing out and produce elements
of training that can be worked on.
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Some aspects can be isolated, testing to see if more work is
needed on them. An obvious example is hurdle technique, whereby you can
compare your time for a flat run with that over hurdles. For example a
400m hurdler whose flat 400m time was more than 4 seconds quicker than
their hurdle time should be able to reduce their pb by improving their
efficiency over the barriers, a sign that more hurdle drill technique work is needed.
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