Physics 101 for Performance Enhancement
If you understand the science of physics and how to apply it, you’ll have a better understanding of sports and performance enhancement. You owe it to your athletes to understand the fundamentals. Let’s get started.
The Two Variables That Change It All: Load and Speed
Your athletes’ load and acceleration will vary greatly depending on the skillset and experience of your athletes. Your athletes’ levels of experience will impact the ability of what they can and cannot do, as well as how you can assess and train these athletes at each level.
Physics Made Easy to Increase Your 1RM
Acceleration is one of the most important components for building maximum strength. However, you should not confuse acceleration with explosiveness.
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Once you’ve started with a baseline position, adjustments should first be made based on limb length and secondly based on strength history.
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Expert or guru? Innovative training method or gimmick? In the second part of his presentation, Buddy tells you how to spot the difference.
Should I Lift or Should I Sprint — The Case for Speed
At the end of the day, the player who can move the fastest within the context of their sport will almost always be more successful.
Acceleration Triumphs for Baseball and Softball Athletes
This comprehensive guide to sprint training will give you the drills, dynamic movement patterns, and training tools to improve acceleration and athletic power.
Now Available: Sprinting Problems, Prowler Solutions
Joe DeFranco takes an in-depth look at how to use a variety of tools – including the elitefts Prowler – to help push your athletes’ speed to the next level!
WATCH: Resisted Sprints with the Prowler
This purpose of the video is not to convince you to incorporate resisted sprinting in your program. The purpose is to provide you with a brief overview of an alternate way to use elitefts™ bands as a more practical harness in a large group setting when using a prowler or sled.
Foundation of Speed Development: Acceleration
Use these six programming tools to increase your athletes’ ability to rapidly reach top speed.
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Olympians, NFL players, MMA fighters—Landow has trained them all. Here’s how he does it.
Wall Drives-Most Over-Rated Technique Drill?
Joe DeFranco puts acceleration and force production into perspective.
Understanding and Developing Starting Strength
The speed you build in training will determine the split-second difference between winning a game and going home defeated.
Understanding Forces
As we know, training can be very beneficial to anyone’s fitness or athletic goals, but understanding some of the ways in which these exercises negatively affect the body can aid in decision making in programming as well as make it easier for us as professionals to accommodate athletes and work around certain injuries.
Fast Track to Speed Development
Trying to improve your speed? Jerry discusses how to do just that and provides some sample workouts.
Acceleration, Part II
Speed is a product of stride length (the distance your hips travel in a stride) and stride frequency (the number of steps you take in a given time period). However, you won’t reach top speed by taking increasingly larger steps to increase stride length or taking short, quick steps to increase stride frequency.
Acceleration
In any sport, athletes need to be able to accelerate as quickly as possible to get to the ball or opponent first. As a coach, you must put your athletes in the best possible position to succeed.