Faster
3 Rules Every Good Speed Training Plan Must Follow
If you're a strength and conditioning coach you'll have to frequently answer athletes questions about ways to get faster? And the reason athletes want...
Study Links Popular CrossFit Move With Speed In Youth Athletes
Jumping rope can be a brutal conditioning tool. Boxers have long jumped rope to get in shape, and more recently jumping rope has been featured in CrossFit WODs. Specifically, CrossFitters [...]
Larry Fitzgerald’s Stiff-Arm Was as Impressive a Power Move As You’ll Ever See
You can have your big open field hit, your spin move and your 60-yard touchdown pass. We'll take a perfectly executed stiff-arm any day of the week. Case-in-point: this monster [...]
Do Squats Actually Make You Faster?
We've all been told that in order to sprint faster, we just have to get stronger and squat and power clean more. But is this really the case? Here's a...
Featured STACKLETE: Cairo Attaway
Name: Cairo Attaway School: Midway High School, Waco, Texas Sports: football, powerlifting Heading into his senior season, Attaway, a 5-foot-10, 175-pound defensive back, built his skills by spending countless hours in [...]
Train Like DeAngelo Williams to Increase Your Football Speed
If you are struggling with speed or just looking to get faster, the best place to start is to establish a solid base of strength and power combined with...
How to Get Stronger With Eccentric Reps
An eccentric contraction can be defined as a muscular contraction in which in the force of the contraction does not equal the external force being...
Why the Speed Ladder Alone Won’t Get You Faster
Are you ready for this? I want you to sit down before I say this. OK. Fast feet will not make you fast. Furthermore being able to move your feet quickly...
7 Strength Training Techniques That Definitely Do Not Work
When it comes to working out, sometimes creativity is not always a good thing. Trying to change tried and true exercises and techniques to improve results, or simply to look [...]
6-Exercise Strength Workout to Speed Up Your 40-Yard Dash
What's your 40? this is a wildly popular question among scholastic aged athletes today. Speed is made up of two components stride frequency and stride...