One of our athletes in Columbus who did some speed training with us, Emma, had an incredible transformation with our program. She is an eighth grader who came to us to improve her speed and running form for softball. […]
Did you see the Giants/Packers game last Sunday? The Packers only touchdown was an out and up by Jordy Nelson. It was a great shot of him separating from Corey Webster on the touchdown catch and run. A great demonstration of speed. […]
Tuesday night, I watched the ESPN 30 on 30 series documentary, 9.79. It was a great episode about the world record 100M race that Ben Johnson of Canada ran. Then several days later, he tested positive for drugs and was stripped of his gold medal and world record in what was one of the Olympic’s, [...]
Speed training has taken many twists and turns throughout the years. Some people might have asked how did we get to this point where we are at in speed development. Meaning, how did all the trial and error come about so that we knew what was the best way to squeeze every ounce of fast [...]
Last year I wrote a post on the top 10 fastest baseball players currently in the major leagues. If I would have expanded that into the minor league system, then Billy Hamilton’s name probably would be at the top of the list. I’ve had several people tell me I should write about this guy. He [...]
The Olympic games in London have ended and this last week I was getting in as much track coverage as I could. You saw Usain Bolt duplicate what he did in Beijing by winning 3 gold medals. The first person to ever win the 100M and 200M in consecutive Olympics. You witnessed Allyson Felix become [...]
Tomorrow in Columbus, the Ohio high school state track championships will begin. I’ve been lucky enough to have several of my athletes compete in the state track meet and compete well. Amber Stokes, Jay Ingram, and Mara White (who is competing in her last state track meet of her high school career tomorrow) have all [...]
I get clients all the time who want to utilize our speed training program so that they can run faster on the playing field. These same clients initially have no idea what the feeling is to win a race. What the feeling is to run so much faster than your competition, it looks like they [...]
The NFL Draft is done and now it is time to see if you did well at the combine. If you ran a fast 40 yard dash, does that translate to being drafted or being drafted high. I focused just on their combine results. I tried not to read that much about them when I [...]
What is going to make a high school player a top signing day recruit? Obviously, they have to be a great high school player, but what are the other intangibles involved? How fast does a football player have to be to get this national attention? […]