I am a firm believer that speed can be improved. Anyone looking to improve speed, if you can get them stronger I feel you got a great shot to getting them faster. Yes, it is a little more complex than just getting them stronger. There certainly are some strategies involved with that. But, typically if [...]
This may be a whacky idea, but I’ve been thinking about this idea for club sports for a while. Maybe it is more specifically for club track or individualized sports, but what about a virtual coach or club for your travel sports? Let’s take my sport, track, for example because I’m not quite sure this [...]
The block start in track can be one of the most difficult things to master. It takes many, many practices to understand how to explode out of the blocks and use it to your advantage. I’ve had some athletes that just can’t pick it up. We end up just having them stand as opposed to [...]
When I first got into running and track way back when, there was an adage that if you are sprinting to run on the balls of your feet and if you are running more for distance run flatter and on your heels. That adage can be thrown out the window now. If you look at [...]
Part 3 of our series of how we got a track athlete (Anna Kessler) faster so she was able to have the necessary speed to make the state 100M finals. The previous two weeks, I discussed the previous season’s times and what the object was for the offseason to get her in a better position [...]
How to get a track athlete to run faster? That is the question that we will be discussing in part 2 of our post about Anna Kessler and how she dropped her times enough to qualify for the state track meet this past spring. Last week, I discussed her PR’s she had her freshman year [...]
Back in the fall, I wrote a blog post about one of our athletes, Aziza Ayoub, and the program we did with her to help her win the Ohio state track championship in the 800M (twice). You can read about Aziza’s program by clicking here. We were fortunate enough this year to have three athletes [...]
Throughout the dawn of time, man has been trying to do what they can to give them an advantage in athletics. Whether it is bringing in pros for college teams, like they did in the early 1900’s, or the steroid scandal, people want to put themselves in the best position to win. What if I [...]
Last week, I discussed the speed and strength program that helped make Aziza Ayoub a state champion. Obviously a large part of her success was the running plan her track coach had her on. Our speed and strength program was just part of the ingredients for her success. I finished up last week talking about [...]
I was in the process of prepping another blog post for you guys when I ran into one of my former athletes, Aziza Ayoub, at the Central District cross country meet. Aziza is now a sophomore at The Ohio State University running track. Before that, she ran at Jonathan Alder and part of the reason [...]