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Why You Should Add Depth Jumps to Your Workouts
To improve your athletic performance, you must increase your explosive power so your muscles can produce as much force in as little time as possible. This allows you to accelerate [...]
Olympian Carrie Tollefson’s Core Workout
Carrie Anne Tollefson is an American middle distance runner who was on the U.S. 2004 Summer Olympic team. She says, "Every runner knows a strong core is the key to [...]
Become a Better Baserunner With This Agility Drill
Improving overall running form is the simplest way to improve an athletes running speed. Most running drills are designed around running in a straight...
Soccer Players: Get Quick on the Pitch
Acceleration is going from stop to go or increasing speed while already moving. This is how you get ahead of your competition. “Getting a step on the competition” is not [...]
Fine-Tuning Soccer Sprint Speed
Since sprints in soccer are typically under 40 yards, do you really need to bother with developing your max velocity mechanics? After all, the research from track says most 100-meter [...]
What Is Fast in Soccer?
Everyone knows sprinting is an important part of soccer, but it doesn’t take an English Premier League coach to see that quickness, agility and change of direction are equally important [...]
Prepare for Your Season With These Conditioning Drills
Developing a level of conditioning for the duration required of your sport is crucial to your on the field success. If you don't condition properly come...
3 Ways to Build Sprint Speed (No Sprinting Required)
In order to improve your sprint speed, you have to sprint. That makes sense, right? It does...to an extent. Sprinting is a skill and in order to improve...
Why Youth Athletes Need to Focus On Strength to Improve Speed
When most athletes and coaches think of speed, they think of it as the ability to get from one point to another as quick as possible, and rightfully so....
Speed Drill of the Day: Develop Full-Body Power with this Simple Med Ball Exercise
One of the quickest ways to improve your athletic performance is to work on your triple extension, the ability to simultaneously extend your hips, knees and ankles—a movement required for [...]