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8 Football Drills For Building NFL-Style Speed and Explosiveness
Speed kills. Perhaps this fact is no more apparent than in football. A football field is only 100 yards long and 53.33 yards wide. The faster a player can navigate [...]
Sprinter Workout for Explosive Acceleration
Top sprinting speed might be flashier, but it's your start that sets you up for success during a race. To improve this critical component of a race, you must develop [...]
How Caffeine Can Make You Sprint Faster
Caffeine is one of the few legal performance-enhancing substances that actually works.
Want a Stronger Core? Plug This Side Plank Variation Into Your Routine
The Side Plank is a mainstay in core training. Whether you use it as an intended activation drill or as a core strength training progression, you likely have some experience [...]
Don’t Overlook Horizontal Force Production for Sports Success
Being able to apply the right amount of force in the appropriate direction at the appropriate time is critical to sports success. If we jump to catch a ball, we [...]
How Heavy Sled Drags Help Hockey Players Skate Faster
Several studies have now found resisted sprinting to be an effective method for enhancing acceleration. Many of these studies investigated the impact of loading a sled with anywhere between 5-80% [...]
4 Relative Strength Standards to Improve Sprint Speed
Let’s face it: if you want to be fast, you need to sprint fast—and sprint fast often. Speed is a skill after all, and like any other skill, improvement is [...]
How to Unlock the Power of Your Big Toe for Superior Athletic Performance
Who remembers the movie Stripes? If you're older like me, it is an 80’s classic. For the rest of you, it's a great download in the sea of movie mediocrity. [...]
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 [...]
The ‘Phantom Step-Up’: Why This Unorthodox Exercise Is Amazing for Athletes
You put equal weight on both sides of the barbell. It’s up there with "no curling in the squat rack" and "always use a spotter when you max out" as [...]
