Plyometrics are awesome for improving sprint speed, as they teach athletes how to produce lots of force fast. This is essential for becoming faster, since the more force we can put into the ground at faster rates, the faster we will become. There are many plyos we can do with athletes that will work great, but these are 4 that we absolutely love. The goal is horizontal force production, especially working on the acceleration phase. Make sure plyos are part of your sprint program!

what are some of the bigger movements like squats can be paired with these exercises? would like to see a pairing video. i have been wondering if i can pair Romanian Deadlift with lateral band walks. it'd be interesting to see a pairing video of compound and corrective

Hello, is there a way to calculate the reactive power index?

Off season is the time to really enhance your athleticism and build strength and power. These girls were working hard today! We started with some acceleration training, really emphasizing mechanics during the first 5 yds of the sprint. Then we have one hitting some cleans, with the other busting out back squats and reactive strength testing. We also make sure to get some supplementary work in there, some of which included in the video.

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Lateral speed and quickness is essential for athletes, especially when changing of directions. A lot of athletes have very poor change of direction mechanics which lead to inefficient movements, loss of speed, and increased risk of injury. We always make sure to teach our athletes great change of direction mechanics, starting from withstanding/absorbing lateral forces, then how to utilize these forces to propel you into the new direction you want to go in. Here are some foundational exercises we love to use.

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Building strength is the foundation for our sports performance training. Without adequate strength, we're not maximizing our athlete's potential for power and speed. For explosive movements, and pretty much every sporting movement, force production is required. Therefore, we need to make sure we're developing strength with our athletes in a variety of ways that can translate to their sport. This means they first need the ability to produce force, which will then lead us into developing this force at rapid speeds.

Your videos are a continuous addition to my tool bag for training athletes. Thank you for always creating great content. Other than the plyomat, what other technology do you use for training? Seems like I remember seeing you use a Vitruve Encoder as well.

Competition breeds success. It's the heart and soul of athletics, so you best believe we're competing in the gym. We create a competitive environment by racing each other, trying to break personal score/times/metrics, and by using objects such as a tennis ball. So many athletes can become better by just improving their environment. Get out there and compete!

Speed training for athletes needs to include reactive speed. Most sports are not just linear sprinting on a clean cut path. There are so many different elements that the athlete needs to be aware of, plan for, and even react to. It's the athletes who can anticipate and react the best and most efficiently that will come out on top. In the clips, we're hitting our speed training with a reactive component. For many athletes, the small side step alone will completely slow them down and derail their sprint even if it's predetermined; unlike here where they not only have the side step, but also have to go in the direction I call out. We train our athletes so they can react with strength and efficiency, so they maintain as much speed as possible into, during, and out of the cut.

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Great video as always. Where do you get your box jump equipment?

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It gives a good reaction to the muscle, especially the first exercise. The question is, do we do all of these exercises in one order in one sports session, and how do we do the sets, equipment, and time? Thank you.🌹

This exercise depends on muscle contraction to produce a good reaction, right?

One way we can improve our speed is by improving our force production. If we can produce more force, then we increase our potential to express more force, which in turn, can help us become faster if we can produce these forces at good speeds. Here are some exercises we use to improve our force production. Unilateral exercises are great for this, especially since sprinting is unilateral by nature. We really try to focus on maximizing the work of the glutes during many of these movements.

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There are 2 areas we can focus on when it comes to jumping. We can either highlight fast ground contact times (GCT), or we can highlight pure jump height. When we're training athletes, we need to tell them what we're looking for in the movement, either get off the ground as fast as you can or jump as high as possible. A fast GCT will sacrifice some height, and more height will sacrifice a quick GCT. However, when we improve at each of these abilities, we can eventually get the athlete to improve jump height AND improve GCT during the same jump. This is what we want... big jumps that occur fast.

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Will this skill be acquired on its own through exercise only, or does it depend on concentration, reaction, and the number of repetitions? Is it possible to do this exercise after a jogging session or with high intensity?

For the kettle belt exercise, can we use dumbbells?

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Jump height is imperative for athletes. On the surface, it looks really cool to jump high, but many people think it's only important for basketball and volleyball.... they couldn't be more wrong. Jump ability is a great metric of impulse capabilities, essentially meaning how much force can you produce and how long it takes you to produce such forces. This doesn't just apply to jumping, as there is direct correlation between jump ability and sprint ability. Acceleration, for example, is all about how much force you can produce and how quickly you produce it to displace your body. To increase jump height, we have to build strength, train reactivity, and increase impulse.

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Applying light resistance to skilled movements is very important when trying to develop patterns. Especially for a pattern like sprinting, it's a very skilled movement that requires precise positioning and movements, while also demanding the athlete produce lots of force at very high rates. We can utilize exercises such as these for coordinative resistance training where we work on the skilled pattern and also train the ability to apply greater forces. We want the athlete to be able to train with explosive intent, as they are working on neural patterning.

In order to be able to express massive force, don't you need to build that massive force? And the only way to build force is to lift heavier weights progresively. That means build it with back squats, conventional deadlifts with conventional barbell, presses and bench press, chinups, dips. Then learn to express it with power cleans and power snatches.

The goal for the session today was impulse. We wanted to express as much force as we possibly could at extremely fast speeds. We focused our attention on expressing these forces during a sprint, emphasizing the acceleration phase where producing force fast is critical. We started with some mechanics to warm it up, and eventually took it to the trap bar for speed pulls paired with lightly resisted sprints. For the speed pulls, we used the VBT to measure force, power, and velocity so we could know when to cut the set to save 1 rep in the tank and apply that energy to the very lightly resisted sprint. This girl is putting in WORK!

I don't have access to majority of these things how will i be able to do this at home. If you could, Could you make a video on it please

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Transitions are one of the most important aspects to great change of direction mechanics. We need to be super strong as we withstand the eccentric forces so that we can not only be in control, but also so we can explode out in our new direction utilizing stored energy. We need efficiency so there is no wasted movements and no wasted stored energy. I say it a lot, but it's a pillar of our performance training - the more force we can load with, the more force we can explode with!

Good, thanks. I wonder if Cole Palmer does the same exercises? )

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I've said it before, but altering sprint mechanics can be extremely challenging for athletes. We're trying to alter details that have been innate and habitual for them over the years during a very high speed movement. It takes a lot of time, thousands of repetitions, and the right cues. The difference between the first & second clip shown is 1 cue. I told him to get his toes beyond his knees so he can drive force into the ground which would drive him forward, versus just putting his foot up and down under him. You can see the immediate change in how the sprint looks; the 1st clip looking like he's just resisting being pulled, and the 2nd clip is him driving force. Sprint mechanics take time and work, but this shows how big a difference the small details make.

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What sport are they "training" for?

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2 elements of speed training we need to focus on with athletes are rate of firing and stiffness. When it comes to rate of firing, I always tell the athletes to think of pistons rapidly firing with lots of force. Especially for our acceleration phase, that's what we want to resemble. We want high force at high speeds, driving force into the ground propelling us forward. We also want to develop enough stiffness so that we can utilize stored energy and not allow energy to dissipate. We want to strike the ground with strength so that our lower limb can handle all the force we are producing.

By performing the right strength exercises and plyometrics, we can develop some pretty explosive athletes. The goal needs to be "produce as much force as possible in the shortest amount of time". To produce more force, we need to build strength. To decrease the time, we need to become reactive and fire fast, so we hit plyometrics and strength movements at higher speeds. Here are some exercises we love.

Hello I watched your video, what is the title of all exercise did you execute?

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