I love the 500M and wish that more elite men did it.
Training for the 500 is relatively easy:
- Work on max leg strength in the gym. With corresponding core and arm strength. Some people can get their legs so strong that they pull their fingers off of the bars during standing starts. So, also work on dead lift with no straps/hooks.
- Work on Power after your strength has leveld-off.
- Work on standing start technique. Standing start is key to the 500m
- Work on max speed.
- Focus on obtaining the optimal gear (use analysis of cadence to do this). Too big and you never get "on top" of the gear and too small and you are spinning like a hamster in a wheel. Basically, pick the biggest gear that you can hit ___RPM with.