Are You Prepared to Coach Speed at the Highest Level, or are You Just Hoping for the Best?
Become a Highly-Sought-After Speed Expert
Speed Insiders Academy is your ultimate guide to multi-directional speed, advanced coaching, and large-team management—helping you stand out as the go-to expert in athletic performance.
ATTENTION: Future & Current Coaches, TherapistS, Skills TrainerS, PE Teachers, Kinesiolisgist…
Speed is one of the most important factors in athletic success, but coaching it the right way takes more than just passion—it takes the right knowledge and a clear, proven system.
That’s exactly what Speed Insiders Academy gives you. Whether you’re working with individual athletes, large teams, or return-to-play cases, this course will teach you how to assess, break down, and improve multi-directional speed with confidence.
You’ll learn how to coach acceleration, deceleration, and re-acceleration, organize large groups efficiently, and design smart programming that helps athletes get faster while reducing their risk of injury.
More than just theory, this course gives you real-world coaching strategies you can apply immediately. You’ll learn how to spot movement inefficiencies, apply the right corrections, and build training sessions that maximize performance.
If you’re a coach, trainer, or therapist looking to set yourself apart as a true speed expert, this is your chance to gain the skills that will make you an invaluable asset to any program. Invest in your coaching future—enroll today and take your expertise to the next level!
What You’ll Gain By ENROLLING:
A 24-Module Journey to Speed Mastery
Take a Look at What’s Inside the Speed Insiders Academy.
Module 1: Deceleration Training
A method of using deceleration training to load for athletic performance eccentrically. Learn the 3 Phases of Deceleration and how, when, and with whom to apply.
Module 2: Repositioning Concept
Understanding the repositioning concept will change your view on athletic multi-directional speed. Discover why movements such as the Plyo Step, Hip Turn, Directional Step, and Glide Step occur.
Module 3: Reacceleration
Change of Direction is all in the emphasis. We don’t want athletes to stop; however, we want them to be quick. Tap into why deceleration is only part of the equation, and re-acceleration is the answer.
Module 4: Programming for Acceleration, Deceleration, and Re-accelerationation Training
If you focus on the correct details, you will see speed gains rather quickly. Discover what has helped Lee improve his athletes’ multi-directional speed quickly.
Module 5: Linear Acceleration
Regardless of starting posture/stance, an athlete must hit certain positions with correct postures to accelerate powerfully. Unlock how to coach acceleration for athletes starting in a track start, defensive stance, base-stealing stance, or any athletic stance possible.
Module 6: Specific 3D Warm-Ups
Understanding how to drive specific postures that support speed, re-acceleration, and quickness is important for knowing how to protect your athletes. Learn various strategies to prepare important areas of the body for performance.
Module 7: Max Velocity
Do you understand the essential variables that build sprint speeds and postures? Find out how to decrease contact time, increase limb positions, and increase force application into the ground. In addition, expand your knowledge of how to program for max velocity speed training.
Module 8: Broad and Vertical Jump Assessment
Take a good look at how we can use the broad jump and the vertical jump to analyze power, elastic energy, asymmetry, and postures. Understanding how to check for imbalances using the broad and vertical will potentially save many athletes from injury.
Module 9: Energy Systems
Speed is why athletes are excited about training. Conditioning is important, but speed kills. Discover the energy systems I use with my athletes to maximize speed training.
Module 10: Lateral Shuffle
Learn how to assess, implement, and teach the shuffle. I will share how the Lateral Gait Cycle is performed correctly to maximize lateral shuffle speed. Discover the truth and avoid the myths.
MModule 11: Lateral Run
The Lateral Run or Lateral Run-Step is the king of athletic movements. I will break through the barrier of how this action has been taught in the past and teach you how actual biomechanics and laws of movement will govern how the lateral run occurs.
Module 12: Fake Throw Series Part 1 (Jumping)
Gain an understanding of how to influence loading during landing. The concept of the Fake Throw Series will become clear as you see how mass and momentum create postural training like nothing else.
Module 13: Fake Throw Series Part 2 (Movement)
Increase your knowledge of how to influence deceleration, change of direction postures, enhance back-to-play athlete’s control, and so much more using the Fake Throws.
Module 14: Retreating Part 1 (Backpedal)
The backpedal has two forms and techniques to dive into. Being able to teach backpedaling properly can arm your athletes will game-saving skills. Proper backpedal techniques will be broken down for the Compact Backpedal and the Extended Backpedal.
Module 15: Retreating Part 2 (Hip Turn)
The greatest athletes have the ability to quickly open their hips and retreat immediately. They perform a Hip Turn, immediately shuffle, laterally run, or sprint to accomplish a task. Let’s analyze the postures, force angles, and distances gained.
Module 16: Stability Landings
Gain insight into an effective strategy to improve your athlete’s confidence and ability to properly load during landing from a jump, leap, or hop. With this approach, I will show you how to progress to increase quickness off the ground and control plant angles.
Module 17: Jumping, Ballistic and Plyometric
These training components are often overthought. Discover how to devise a system that allows you to safely and effectively develop your athlete’s explosive and reactive speed using ballistics and plyometrics.
Module 18: Cutting
I place cutting in a different category than reacceleration or change of direction because of its uniqueness. Cutting can be done on a very subtle angle or a sharp angle, it can involve fakes, spins, and combinations. Follow along as I break down my system of coaching cutting.
Module 19: Reactive Tier System for Speed
For most of my career as a coach, I have used reactionary training to evaluate, prepare, and increase performance in my athletes. The Reactive Tier System for Speed will completely change your approach to teaching speed.
Module 20: Team Organization
One of the most intimidating situations a coach faces is how to quickly and efficiently organize a large team of athletes for a training session. I will teach you how to manipulate the formations, line structure, traffic flow, and time programming.
Module 21 Off-Season, Pre-Season, In-Season
I will show you how to manage and break down each season. Training the correct skills and systems needs careful attention and analysis.
Module 22 Tubing and Bands for Core Development
To impact our athletes’ performance, you must think differently than in the past. My program on how to use tubing and bands to train the connection of the core to the feet, legs, and hips is crucial to understanding speed.
Module 23 Strength Training
This module reviews why strength training is essential to developing multi-directional speed. Most significantly, understanding when enough is enough.
Module 24 Session Planning Strategies
Always have a plan written. It keeps you organized and reduces legal negligence. Get my inside strategies to make you think differently about your plan.
Meet The Speed Guy
Lee Taft, “The Speed Guy,” is a world-renowned expert in multidirectional speed training with over 35 years of experience. As the CEO and Founder of LeeTaft.com, he has pioneered game-changing techniques used by athletes at all levels—from youth to the pros. His speed training principles are trusted by elite performance facilities, universities, and professional teams, including those in the NFL, NBA, and MLB.
In 2003, Lee reshaped the industry with Groundbreaking Athletic Movement, introducing key concepts like the “Plyo Step” and “Hip Turn.” Through coaching, consulting, and certifications, he has helped thousands of athletes and coaches develop superior speed, strength, and injury resilience. A dedicated mentor, Lee continues to educate sports performance professionals worldwide, ensuring athletes move faster and smarter for long-term success.
Exclusive 3 Video Series Bonus: Deceleration & Re-Acceleration Training for Sports & Back-to-Play
Master the Art of Speed Training
Designed for Future Leaders in Speed & Performance
If you work with athletes, you know speed is a game-changer. But coaching it effectively? That’s where true expertise comes in. The Speed Insiders Course is your blueprint for understanding, teaching, and implementing multi-directional speed with precision.
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR….
TRANSFORM YOUR COACHING CAREER
Become the Elite Speed Training Expert Your Athletes Deserve
Elevate your coaching game and join the ranks of elite performance experts. Don’t let outdated training hold you back—step into a future where you lead your athletes to victory.
