Speed Workouts
The Basketball Revolution Is Here: Train For a More Up-Tempo Game
For the Fall 2013 issue of STACK Magazine, we talked to some of basketball's best minds training today's ballers about the Basketball Revolution. Read more about the physicality and skills of [...]
First-Step Quickness for Lacrosse Speed
"Hey, what's your 40 time?" If I had a nickel for every time I heard this, I swear I would be a millionaire by now. Popularized by the NFL combine, the...
The Secret to Speed: Build Your Posterior Chain
Lower body training is essential for athletic performance. Squatting, deadlifting, and other glorious leg lifting exercises yield multiple benefits...
Ask a STACK Expert: I Need to Lower My 60 Yard Dash for Baseball. How Can I Do This?
Q: Since you know more than I do about speed and agility, I have a question. I play baseball and I'm trying to get my 60 lower. Currently I'm a...
Don’t Get Left Behind: 3 Keys to First-Step Quickness
Slow and steady may win the race, but coaches and scouts are looking for the hare, not the tortoise. Explosiveness is an attribute that can take every athlete to the [...]
Sprint Faster With a Stronger Core
Sprinters are the personification of a finely-tuned machine. Each muscle has a responsibility to operate at optimal efficiency. Although genetics play a role, sprinters can improve their efficiency and their [...]
An Introduction to Strength Training for Runners
Just running won't help you reach your potential as a runner. Too many distance runners and sprinters limit themselves by forgoing strength training. Strength training is the most important non-running [...]
Slow Down to Get Faster: The A-March
No area of training is more critical to success in sports than speed. Athletes are always on the lookout for new speed drills. But to reach their maximum velocity, athletes [...]
Why Power Development Must Come Before Speed Work
A lot of coaches think that the answers to speed are ladders, cones, and all types of technique and footwork drills. Truth is—they only help so much. When an athlete [...]
Strength Train to Get Faster
“There are a lot of things you can do in the weight room to improve your 40 time,” says trainer Scot Prohaska. He recommends the following three moves. Each develops [...]
