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My Toughest Workout: Olympic Triple Jumper Christian Taylor
Though he’s also a top competitor in the long jump and 400-meter relay, Christian Taylor narrowed his goals. Now he wants to beat the world record in the triple jump.
“The coach says it’s better to exceed in one than to be average in several,” he says.
Taylor’s personal best, 17.96, won him gold at the World Championships in South Korea in 2011. Finally, he’s looking to top the world record, set by Jonathan Edwards at 18.29 in 1995.
He hopes that the Olympic crowds will help him get more energetic.
“That’s my fuel, my energy source,” he explains. “I’m a big believer in feeding off the energy of the people around you.”
There is another thing that will help him fly. A 2-minute drill that he likes to do with Will Claye, a former teammate of Taylor’s at the University of Florida who will also be representing the U.S. in London.
The drill is a series of jumps that tests consistency, stamina and mental toughness. The goal is to hit the same mark as many times as you can. “It’s a really intense workout,” Taylor says. “After the first minute, when it really hits you, you are just burnt out.”
It’s that kind of power that he’s used to propel himself to the top. “I wouldn’t call myself a competitor or an athlete if I wasn’t trying to be the best, ever,” he says. “I feel like I am flying, and I get so excited that I want to come back down and see where I am.”
The drill is simple, but exhausting. Taylor repeats a triple jump as many times as he can in two minutes. As soon as he hits the sand, he runs back to the starting mark and repeats, trying to hit the same mark each time. He performs two sets with a 20-minute rest in between, just because it’s so rough. In two minutes, he estimates he gets about 20 jumps in.
The jump drill is part of a set that includes a lot of technical work, sprinting, and jumping. His warm-up lasts about 45 minutes (little bounds, accelerations, 60–75 meter sprints). Then he goes to the runway for light drills, standing long jumps, alternating bounds, little things to wake up the fast-twitch muscles. That’s when he starts going into the different jump drills, like the one above. But he also adds medicine ball drills, as well as weights work.
It’s hard to say what will really help Christian Taylor to win, his self assurance that he must win or long trainings every day with the set of exercises.
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A 7 Christian Taylor is the champion in the long jump.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
A 8 Christian Taylor believes that a sportsman should be good at somewhat one.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
A 9 Christian Taylor find people as a source of energy that helps to fight.
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A 10 Will Claye was famous for his long jump at the competition.
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A 11 Will Claye has worked out his own set of exercises to train mental and physical skills.
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A 12 The exercises include repetition of the same task with the same goal.
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A 13 Any sportsman should have an inner desire to win.
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A 14 Technical work, sprinting, and jumping are just some of Christian’s every day traning.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
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