Coaching Track You can argue that no one knows more about getting athletes fast than track coaches. Thats what they spend everyday and their career focused on. That’s why track methodology has so heavily influenced speed training in other sports. Spending time learning from track coaches and spending time as a track coach, was a [...]
Acceleration Technique for the 40 Let’s get this straight right off the bat. Training for the 40 yard Dash at the Combine is not about training for game speed on the field. It’s all about the task constraints. Why the 40 is a bad test of speed The 40 is a straight sprint. No reaction, [...]
I have long been a fan of the Woodway FORCE treadmill. It is a self propelled treadmill. This has been for several reasons; Encourages FOOT CONTACT under COG Encourages HORIZONTAL PROPULSIVE FORCES Allows VIDEO ANALYSIS of multiple strides easily Provides easier accel bounding learning and resisted bounds …and in the case of a FORCE 2.0 or [...]
A key skill for a sports performance coach is being able to analyze movements. You have to watch an athlete move and make a mental comparison to the technical model in your head. To do this effectively you have to develop your ability to watch for certain types of detail in relatively high speed movements. [...]
Feedback to athletes on their performance is very important to facilitate motor learning. They are always getting some feedback from their kinestethic sense. Whether that feedback is well tuned is an entirely different story. We give feedback to coaches as to the quality of performance as well. Often this is just verbal, but we also [...]
