Simplot Games 2001 Coaches' Clinic
PERIPHERAL COACHING CONCERNS and CORNERSTONE TRAINING OF THE HIGH SCHOOL DISTANCE ATHLETE

Presented by: Jeff Arbogast Head Boy's and Girl's Cross Country    & Track and Field Coach Bingham High School South Jordan, Utah

For over two decades the Bingham High distance runners have been training on the cutting edge with national performances in cross country and track. Innovation and intensive education, coupled with constant vigilance accorded to critical year-round training concepts have led to innumerable conference championships, multiple State Titles in boys' and girls' track and cross country disciplines, national distance track marks, Footlocker Finalists for boys and girls, a National #1 team in both men's and women's cross country, and constant appearances in the National Top-10 since the inception of rankings in cross country. However, through years of national successes in cross country as well as indoor and outdoor track, the primary program objective has remained the same . . . prepare each distance runner thoroughly in order to enable them to compete effectively at the intercollegiate level. To that goal an incredible 63 Bingham Miners have flooded the collegiate ranks since 1990, primarily on scholarship.

Jeff Arbogast has head coached the Bingham Cross Country and Track & Field programs since 1980 as well as the South Valley Track Club since 1984. An emphasis on distance events has anchored dominating performances in that time. This emphasis has arisen from formal training at the highest levels of our sport, including USATF Level II Multi-Events and USATF Level III Endurance, to form a training theory with the most unique adaptations to the high school athlete as anything seen since the advent of megamileage or interval work. Many of today's top programs have been altered in a positive direction by incorporating elements of the Bingham training philosophy into their routines. A great many aspects of the high school interpretation of the African training model, the incorporation of speed, resistance, and endurance in a yearly plan, the 4-macrocycle system of training, and sport psychology for the high school distance runner have had their inception in South Jordan, Utah.

Although formalized presentations have provided one avenue for dissemination of differing aspects of the Bingham training program, Coach Arbogast also assists a variety of schools and coaching organizations in any way possible, from sending out daily packets of event-specific training information to summer-hosting athletes from all areas of the country for intensive education and basework training. Bingham has developed a longstanding reputation of continual assistance to all athletes and coaches from all areas.

At Simplot 2001, Coach Arbogast will present one of his favorite and most pertinent topics, "Peripheral Problems Facing the High School Distance Track & Cross Country Coach, and Cornerstones of Effective Training". Each attending coach will be guaranteed to walk away inspired, energized, informed, and educated with the comprehensive instruction and handouts presented. Coach Arbogast will highlight summer training design and incorporation, recruitment at the youth level, parent and booster relations, fundraising, injury protocols, coordinating your own camp, 'core workout' implementation, 'hard-easy' training and its myths, speed and speed-endurance work in the yearly plan, and elemental sports psychology in a fast-paced 90 minutes, complete with templates and handouts to equip any coach in the incorporation of elements of the Bingham method.

Have fun . . . . . . . train hard !!!