This week’s guest is track and field coach Rana Reider. For those of us who live on the internet, we don’t often hear much of Rana’s training and philosophy, but he is one of the absolute best in the world.

Rana spent time as an NAIA track coach before coaching at NCAA schools Florida and Kansas State, as well as UK Athletics, and he has been taking on some of the biggest names in the sport today, such as Christian Taylor and Dafne Schippers as a private track coach. He has been awarded the NAIA National Coach of the Year honor in 2000, and 2011 Nike Coach of the Year.

Rana’s use of technology in the midst of a training session is truly incredible to hear explained. He makes use of pieces like the 1080 sprint https://simplifaster.com/store/product/1080-sprint/ and the Freelap https://simplifaster.com/store/product-category/freelap/freelap-athletic-timing-systems/ system, in addition to Optojump and other tools, all in one run. Rana also takes multiple blood tests during the course of training sessions to determine how to create an optimal flow of the training session.

Listening to Rana talk was one of the rare opportunities for me so far in recording this podcast. My evernote also gained a few extra pages after going through this recording again, as there were many great ideas of coaching and training.

Although Rana uses technology frequently, this episode will show his wisdom in terms of when, and when not to use it with his athletes, and how to take the optimal path in different training situations and athlete types.

It is my pleasure to bring to you a training and technology talk with coach Rana Reider.

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