Simply Google ‘Acceleration’ and you will find hundreds, if not thousands of articles. Type Google Backwards Acceleration and you will find a completely different response. If we look at athletes…
4 Tips For Greater Backwards Acceleration
Category: Youth Development
All Kids Should Learn to Throw And Kick
All kids should learn to throw and kick. As kids grow and develop through play, they naturally develop strategies to move in both acceleration and deceleration pathways. This occurs as…
Reps Need Roots
What's a Rep? When defining a repetition (rep), we might define it as the completion of an action. The definition describes what a rep is. It doesn’t describe the quality…
Developing a Coach’s Eye
We all have strengths and limitations that define our perspective in speed development. The strength coach that comes primarily from the weight-room might look at strength being the primary determinant…
Mobilize the Ankles For Power
It goes without saying, if an athlete is in a better “athletic stance", then she can generate more power. But, what does it take to get into a better athletic…
Importance of Rebounder Training
Why Rebounder Training? Having owned and operated several speed academies since 1994, I have experience with many different types of training tools. A good coach knows a training tool is…
Assessing Speed
We are becoming an assessment happy industry and that is a good thing. The more we know about our clients (within reason) the better we can address their goals. Questions…
Body Weight Exercises Might Not Be Best
Thoughts to Consider with Body Weight Exercise There is a reason gymnastics is NOT easy. Body weight exercises are hard. It is kind of odd, but I agree and disagree…
3 Tips to Change a Speed Coach’s Life
There are many sad stories of young and older coaches not going full in on their dreams because they fear what others might say or believe about them. If this…
Purity of Youth Sports
The purity of youth sports is still there, you just have to dig a little harder to find it these days. Back in the Day We always talk about “Back…