Speed Drills
Fix your Running Form with Falling Starts
Proper body angle is crucial to sprinting and acceleration. If you cannot achieve a proper body angle at the start of a sprint, you won’t be able to drive your [...]
Speed Drill of the Day: Build Agility and Body Control with the T-Drill
The ability to stop and change directions quickly is critical to athletic success. The T-Drill is a simple cone drill that hones your ability to generate speed over a short [...]
Speed Drill of the Day: Increase Your Strength and Stability with Single-Leg Mini-Hurdle Jumps
Standing on one leg is often thought to be a vulnerable position. It challenges your balance and generally makes athletic tasks more difficult. However, being comfortable and powerful from a [...]
Speed Drill of the Day: Build Fast-Twitch Muscle Fibers with the Broad Jump
Fast-twitch muscle fibers are essential for athletes. The ability to perform a movement quickly and explosively is a key to success during those split-second moments that separate winning from losing. [...]
Speed Drill of the Day: Reach Your Top Speed Faster with Scramble Ups
Don’t stand straight up—it’s one of the most important instructions about starting a sprint. Standing up at the beginning of a sprint, or when you’re accelerating in general, will muck [...]
Speed Drill of the Day: Build Multi-Directional Speed with the Box Drill
Straight-line speed is important, but unless you're concerned only about your 40-Yard Dash time, the ability to move fast in multiple directions is probably more relevant to your sport. Moving [...]
Speed Drill of the Day: Improve Your Playmaking Ability with the Med Ball Push to Sprint
One of the hardest things for an athlete to develop is first-step speed and acceleration. However, these attributes are crucial to success in almost every sport. Plays rarely come down [...]
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 [...]
Speed Drill of the Day: Become a Better Athlete with the Bulgarian Split-Squat
When you're playing a sport, many of the athletic movements you perform are done off one leg. That’s why your training should include a number of single-leg exercises to prepare [...]
Speed Drill of the Day: Get More Explosive with Ankle Hops
When it comes to speed training, most people immediately think of the major lower-body muscle groups like the quads, glutes and hamstrings. And although those muscles are extremely important to [...]