There Are No Magic Drills For Speed
Running drills have been around for a long time now. It’s the kind of thing that appeals to a certain type of coach, the ones that are looking for the magic exercise...
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Baseball Players Are Not Track And Field Athletes
In a previous article, I addressed the fact that most athletes are not track and field sprinters and that, as coaches, we may be missing the boat with their speed training when...
Speed Training And Soccer
Background Soccer has always been a challenging sport for the strength and conditioning professional, especially when it comes to speed training. Over the years I’ve seen everything from having the athletes jog...
Using Resisted Sprints
In a previous post (http://wp.me/p1XfMm-iq), I reviewed the current state of knowledge about resisted sprints. With this post, I’d like to talk a little about how they can be used in an...
What Do We Know About Resisted Sprinting?
The October 2014 issue of the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research has articles by Kawamori et al and Bachero-Mena and Gonzalez-Badillo on resisted sprinting. This presents a great opportunity to take...