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What has worked for me is, during practice, if having trouble planting from a full run..just go from 5 lefts or 4 lefts and make sure you can plant running from the shorter distance, and then gradually scoot back until you are planting at your full run. It's all mental.

When your driving down the road and you see a truck with poles all over it and you think it may be a vaulter when in all actuality it's just a plumber.

Knowing that since '04 is coming to an end..track season is about to begin

Thanks for the info. I've got to learn to start using that search feature up there!

First off, why do you want to take creatin? Second, How old are you? Lastly, what kind of training are you currently doing? I'm not saying I want to take it....just looking into things so I will be more educated about the whole process. I am 16. Weights one day, running the next and so forth.

Okay..so what do you guys (and girls) think about creatine? Yes, no, sometimes, maybe? From what I've read about it, it isn't a "steriod", but I want to know what some of you think about it before I do anything with it.

So, how many of ya'll have a bag full of Under Armour apparel? Some meets I have been to, I have seen people head to toe in Under Armour. As of now I have 1 all-season, long-sleeve shirt, but I'm also thinking about getting the new bag they came out with.

For me, the best thing that works is to get a 25 lb. plate and hold it on your chest and do crunches. I do 75 normal crunches with the plate on my chest, then turn your legs and I do 25 crunches on each side with the plate...Good work out for me.

Yeah, that's what I meant. How do you do the leg presses?

I have been lifting weights (yeah I know some of you say not to) this summer to maintain through the summer. Are squats vital to the vault? I hate doing them, and I have to go up to the school to do them. So???

There are a few posts on here about who has broken a pole and stuff. Who here hasn't broken a pole? A different spin on the same topic pretty much.