This week’s guest is Jeremy Fischer, USA Track and Field lead coach at the Chula Vista Olympic Training Center. Jeremy works with Olympic medalists, Brittney Reese and Will Claye, as well as Paralympic performers.

Jeremy is also active in the USATF coaching education program, and is a great resource for anyone looking at getting athletes more explosive.

Jeremy’s experience as an athlete was a high jumper, and at 5’9, he leapt 7’6”!

One of my earliest memories as a young track athlete was going to “The Shell” in Madison, Wisconsin, and watching Jeremy jump 7’4”. Although he was the smallest guy in the competition, his unbelievable power on the runway and aggressiveness in the takeoff was something I had never realized was possible. It was like I was watching superman.

Now, years later I have the good fortune to interview Jeremy on many aspects of speed and power training, as well as ideas on training for the track and field jumps. I really enjoy discussing training with jumps coaches, since the events are the pinnacle of explosive power development, and has implications for nearly any other athletic activity.

Make sure you listen all the way to the end of this one, as a highlight of this whole podcast series was listening to Jeremy chat about his ideas on the “two-minute drill”, which he got from Willie Banks.

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