\u201cI always get messages asking for advice about injuries and training and the feedback is more often than not positive. I\u2019ve gathered all this information over the years and just trying to use that in a positive way to help other people.\u201d<\/p>
Greene still has athletics ambitions of his own, of course, and in addition to online coaching he is involved in the sale of Tomahawk Massage Guns<\/a> and at weekends joins his partner selling takeaway pizzas from their south Lincolnshire farm for local residents.<\/p>\n On the track this summer he wants to get back into the 49-second zone for his event \u2013 a performance he achieved as recently as 2019 \u2013 and he adds on the forthcoming season: \u201cMy ambition is to compete regularly to be honest. I want to race say 10-12 times and not be in a bad position.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the last few years I've gone to competitions trying to compete knowing that my hip might not be right. So I want to go to the competition knowing that I'm okay.<\/p>\n \u201cIf I\u2019m fit enough to put spikes on I can usually run a high or mid 49. So for me, mentally it is about trying to get into the 49s and then work my way down and get below that barrier.\u201d<\/p> Greene\u2019s PB of 47.84 places him No.2 on the UK all-time rankings, just two hundredths of a second behind Kriss Akabusi\u2019s British record. As well as his world title in 2011, he won the Commonwealth crown in Delhi in 2010 and European gold in Barcelona in the same year. Injuries took their toll, though, with him struggling to return to peak form in recent years.<\/p>\n In the latest issue of AW magazine<\/a>, out this week, he explains in detail what makes world record-holder Karsten Warholm so special. On his own abilities, he says: \u201cI don\u2019t think of myself as being talented. I don\u2019t have speed. I\u2019m not crazy strong. My talent is being able to sight the hurdle, being able to hurdle off both legs, adapting relatively quickly to training and I\u2019m very good at applying myself in training.\u201d<\/p>\n His training a dozen years ago obviously worked as it brought him major titles but there is always room for improvement so I ask him what tweaks he would make if he could turn back the clock? What would he tell the 20-year-old version of himself?<\/p>\n \u201cI would do less pure speed endurance stuff a little bit more speed stuff, which is something I've never really, really touched on,\u201d he says without much hesitation.<\/p> His workouts back in 2010 included sessions like 5x250m or 3x300m with long recoveries. But they were all hard efforts over relatively long distances whereas he only very rarely did 'pure sprints' over 60-80m.<\/p>\n \u201cI remember when I left my coach Malcolm Arnold back then one of the things that we wish we\u2019d done more of was speed work. I\u2019d often say, \u2018let's do more speed endurance, let's do more endurance work\u2019, because I enjoyed that sort of stuff and I never really felt like I was working that hard when I did sprint stuff. Whereas fast forward to later on in my career now and I've probably done more speed sessions in the last few years that at any point.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2014\/06\/dai_greene-e1647547621157-750x442.jpg.webp\")
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