SPEED STRENGTH
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SPEED STRENGTH
Endorsed by the top sprint coaches and researchers in the world
In my mid-20’s I had the “prettiest” sprinting form by anyone’s standards, yet I would get dusted by my athletes when we ran flat out sprints together.
Comparatively, nobody taught me how to run in high school and my form was ugly… but fast.
After seeing enough athletes get stronger, but not faster on the track, and also see athletes continually abandon my cueing set when actually competing and needing to run fast, I really started to ask myself some tough questions regarding athletic development.
All these questions are ones that I’ve set out to find the answer, an answer that starts with how the body works in acceleration and sprinting.
This is a Book That Covers All the Topics Associated with Sprinting, and is Based on Cutting-Edge Coaching Practice, Practical Experience and Results.
The lessons I’ve gained as an athlete, coach and now podcaster and educator have all filtered into a product that I believe creates a platform for true, holistic thinking when sitting to build a speed program.
As I’ve talked with dozens of elite coaches, as well as being personally mentored by great thinkers like Adarian Barr (his work inspired Chapter 1), I’ve finally transcribed my thoughts on the following areas onto paper.
With the help of over 25 coaches, well over a decade of coaching speed myself in a variety of mediums, and 20 years of personal experimentation, I’ve been able to refine speed down to its component parts as seen in the chapters below:
Sprint Mechanics
Why athletes quickly abandon common sprint cues when they are in the heat of battle and what it really takes to be fast
Sprint Anatomy
What muscles are really important and why
Individualization of Training
How to really determine where to alter training for the individual
The Powerlifts
What squats and deadlifts can and can’t do for athletic speed
Olympic Lifts
How Olympic lifts have more similarities to acceleration than we think, and some critical factors in getting more transfer out of them
“Specific” Strength for Speed
What lifting really is specific to sprinting, and where it might fit in the big picture
Sprint Drills
The reason why traditional sprint drills don’t transfer to actual sprint speed and what to do instead
Plyometrics
How and why particular plyos transfer to sprint ability
Programming
How sprint and strength training means can best fit together for performance
All of these topics are explored in a detail that I feel does a book on the speed training justice. In addition, you will get over 10 training programs that reflect the methodology that I’ve successfully used with hundreds of athletes.
“Speed Strength” is your total guide to navigating the means of any training modality related to getting athletes faster, as well as optimizing your understanding of the human body in relation to moving at high velocity.
If you want to change your coaching life, and gain information not seen anywhere else, then buy your copy today to learn things like the following:
+ How I ran a personal best 10-meter fly at age 34 by “unwiring” the common sprint coaching cues drilled into me through my 20’s. + How I tweaked my strength program to give university track athletes an average improvement of .2 in the 100m dash and .4 in the 200m dash versus their previous year before I started as their strength and conditioning coach (with some athletes improving much more). + How I’ve been able to improve athletes short sprint times by 5% in a matter of weeks without substantial strength improvements. + Why “just getting strong” has been leading us down the wrong road in developing speed of the highest order. + Principles I used to help an athlete to an NCAA championship in the 55m dash in 2010 that I’ve been refining for almost another decade.
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SPEED STRENGTH
A Comprehensive Guide to the Biomechanics and Training Methodology of Linear Speed