“I need to get faster.” OR, “I need to get my kid faster.” I hear those phrases or something like them a lot, but they are said with such a blasé faire attitude like they can just go to the store and buy it in a can. Improving your speed is much like improving your [...]
This pandemic has affected so many facets of our society. I know and get that, but I’m going to talk about the cancellation of sports and the young athletes that it affects. I am a speed and strength coach, so you don’t want me analyzing the economy correct? School sports are suspended or cancelled. Club [...]
You ever watch someone run right at you and notice the running mechanics might be slightly out of sorts. Maybe the athlete runs bowlegged or the feet angle out or in. Sometimes, this can be structural and there is nothing you can do about it. Meaning, the legs were developed this way and you can’t [...]
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 [...]
I’ve heard it many a time from parents. “Once little Johnny gets up to speed, he is pretty fast. It is getting there that is the problem.” The first step is huge in sports, especially in soccer. You need every advantage you can get to get to the ball before your opponent. Soccer is typically [...]
Christian McCaffery, the running back for the Carolina Panthers, is having a monster year. His speed has been very evident this season as he has simply been running faster than everybody else. He has 3 touchdown runs of 50 or more yards, tops in the league. McCaffery and his speed coach, Brian Kula, have made [...]
I get asked for sport specific training a lot. I think we need to make a distinction between sport specific training for adult athletes and sport specific training for youth athletes. Meaning, what is beneficial to adult athletes isn’t necessarily needed for the youth. A while ago, I watched a video on an active experiment [...]
You can’t really train to get faster. You either are fast or you’re not. Rather than put in the effort to optimize your body’s ability to get as fast as it can, spend some time doing important things like another selfie pic. Now that we’ve laid that groundwork, let’s analyze the best reasons why you [...]
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 [...]