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 [...]
I’ve written about this before, but summer is not the ideal time to think your athlete is going to make huge performance gains. It CAN be, but only if you will not be going on any family vacations, attending any camps that take you away from a gym, and not playing a fall sport. If [...]
If you can drive, have you ever sat at a red light and then accelerate as soon as you see that green light appear? I’m not saying you are playing the Fast & Furious with your car, just trying to get going as soon as you see that green. Your acceleration will begin based on [...]
Halfway through our track season, I am more convinced than ever that whatever success you will have in your season is almost always related to what type of work you are doing in the off-season. Yes, you have to have practice and learn plays, etc. But, however well you personally are performing in my opinion [...]
In my field, you will hear about athletes doing sand training as way to improve speed and conditioning. I don’t live around much sand, so I don’t get to experiment with this a whole lot. Until this past week. My family was down in Florida for spring break. With my daughters smack dab in the [...]
This time of year is one of my favorite times of year. Track season begins, but what also happens is the NFL Combine. I can’t get enough of the Combine. I binge-watch as much of it as I can. It ended yesterday with the defensive backs. This was good because db’s are very athletic skilled [...]
We had a track meet this weekend. It wasn’t a huge meet, but I was trying to make sure a few of my athletes had opportunities to decrease their times. One of my sprinters was in a position to improve her time for a couple of events and really solidify her position to qualify for [...]
I’ve been working with improving speed for young athletes for years. I do have an age requirement for our services and that age is 10. Not that kids younger than 10 can’t do speed training, but the way we are set up, I prefer not to work with kids that young. But, we get calls [...]