Speed Drills
Increase Football Speed, Part 1: Why Jumping Rope Is the Perfect Speed Workout
Speed, agility and quickness. Every football athlete, regardless of position, needs these attributes. They are the difference makers between juking a tackle, making a tackle or scoring a winning touchdown. [...]
How to Get a More Efficient Sprinting Form
As humans, we're constantly searching for ways to become more efficient. This is exactly what the fastest sprinters in the world do. With simple running form drills, they save energy [...]
Any-Season Cone Drill Workout for Speed and Agility
It doesn't matter if it's off-season, pre-season or in-season: for sports performance, it's important to maintain and enhance your speed and agility on the court or on the field. The following [...]
Point Guard Game-Speed Drills
As the starting point guard, you're the heartbeat of your team during games. Your responsibilities are to make sure the coach's game plan is carried out, control the design of [...]
Soccer Speed Drills to Leave Opponents in the Dust
If you really want to be able to leave your defenders in the dust this soccer season, you need to further develop quickness and both linear and lateral speed. Make [...]
Run Faster: Learn To Relax During Sprints
Improve your sprinting mechanics and you'll run faster. Sounds simple, right? But in order to achieve and maintain top speed, runners need to learn how to relax through a sprint's [...]
Backward Running: Why It Works and How to Incorporate It Into Your Workout
Running short of achieving your training or fitness goals? If so, you may need to take a few steps backward in order to move forward. Drew Brees incorporates a [...]
Use Science to Increase Running Speed: Heel Up Drill
Make your science teacher proud and your track coach happy by increasing your running speed with the Heel Up drill. This exercise applies Newton's Third Law of Motion—"for every action [...]
Get Faster: Speed Support Drill
Developing true speed takes patience, but with proper sprinting mechanics, over time you will become the athlete you've always wanted to be. (See Basic Speed Training Drills for Any Sport.) The key [...]
Develop Speed With the High Knee Drill
If you truly want to increase your speed, I recommend the High Knee Drill. Although it's considered basic, it's one of the best drill progressions you can do, because it improves [...]