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My Favorite Speed Drills for Soccer Players
"What is the answer to speed development?" Soccer players, soccer parents and soccer coaches, alike, often ponder this question. In one corner, you have the coach who says running nothing [...]
The Gauntlet: How This ‘Magic’ Testing Method Pumps Out Sprinting PRs
PRs are fun. Setting a new PR while sprinting through a tunnel of your rowdy, exuberant teammates? That’s really fun. Tony Holler, head track coach at Plainfield (Illinois) North High [...]
Ignoring Football’s Work-Rest Ratios Is Holding You Back
Football is a unique game. No other team sport is defined by such short, furious bursts of intense activity broken up by extended periods of standing around. Could you imagine [...]
Meet MaryBeth Price: The 103-Pound Professional Sprinter Who Can Lift More Than You
At 5-foot-1, 103 pounds, MaryBeth Price doesn’t look like your average sprinter. That’s just fine by her, because when the gun fires, she's anything but average. Price, a 24-year-old professional [...]
How a Unique Speed Training Program Flipped the Fortunes of Indiana Football
It's one of those classic coach-isms—“You can’t teach speed.” Dr. Matt Rhea doesn't buy it. “The old adage you can’t teach speed or you can’t develop speed in guys at [...]
How Dialing in His Mechanics Helped Christian McCaffrey Supercharge His Speed
Speed kills. Christian McCaffrey is living proof. McCaffrey’s production has taken a quantum leap forward this season, an extraordinary feat when you consider he was a second-team All-Pro in 2018. [...]
Why Most Sprint Drills Don’t Make You Faster (And What to Do Instead)
When we think of speed training, what comes to mind? Quite often, it's about sprint drills and honing our running form. Speed ladders. Cone drills. A-Skips. Arm swing drills. These [...]
The Top Speed Secret: Why Getting Faster Is the Ultimate Performance-Enhancer For Team Sport Athletes
Team sport athletes rarely reach max velocity during competition. That’s just the reality. Fatigue becomes a factor shortly after the first whistle blows, and opportunities for the long, uninterrupted periods [...]
The New Rules of Agility Training
When I say the words “agility drill,” what comes to mind? For most people, it’s an athlete moving through a diagram of carefully arranged bright orange cones with military precision. [...]
Why ‘False Stepping’ Can Actually Make You Faster
The false step has been a natural enemy of coaches across many sports for decades. Why waste time taking a step backwards when you need to move forwards? Many coaches [...]