Speed Training
Training Tips for Next Year’s Turkey Bowl
Whether you’re prepping to defend your title or planning to dethrone the champion, it’s never too early to embark on your next Turkey Bowl training program. For starters, check out [...]
Cone Drills for Football Speed
Before you start, make sure to warm up with several static and dynamic stretching exercises. I recommend performing the cone drills at least two to three times a week. 5-Cone [...]
How to Use Speed Ladders the Correct Way
If you randomly approach any anaerobic sports teams within the US, chances are you can say the words "icky shuffle" or "wideout" and more than a few...
What Soccer Players Need for Physical and Mental Programming During COVID-19
You wake up disoriented. You wonder what you should do. You do not know where to begin. Should it be stillness? Should it be schoolwork? Should it be fitness training? [...]
My Favorite Speed Drills for Soccer Players
"What is the answer to speed development?" Soccer players, soccer parents and soccer coaches, alike, often ponder this question. In one corner, you have the coach who says running nothing [...]
The Gauntlet: How This ‘Magic’ Testing Method Pumps Out Sprinting PRs
PRs are fun. Setting a new PR while sprinting through a tunnel of your rowdy, exuberant teammates? That’s really fun. Tony Holler, head track coach at Plainfield (Illinois) North High [...]
Ignoring Football’s Work-Rest Ratios Is Holding You Back
Football is a unique game. No other team sport is defined by such short, furious bursts of intense activity broken up by extended periods of standing around. Could you imagine [...]
Meet MaryBeth Price: The 103-Pound Professional Sprinter Who Can Lift More Than You
At 5-foot-1, 103 pounds, MaryBeth Price doesn’t look like your average sprinter. That’s just fine by her, because when the gun fires, she's anything but average. Price, a 24-year-old professional [...]
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 Top Speed Secret: Why Getting Faster Is the Ultimate Performance-Enhancer For Team Sport Athletes
Team sport athletes rarely reach max velocity during competition. That’s just the reality. Fatigue becomes a factor shortly after the first whistle blows, and opportunities for the long, uninterrupted periods [...]
