#101 - Speed Training, Training Volume, and the Crack House
#101 - Speed Training, Training Volume, and the Crack House

You may be wondering how speed training, training volume, and crack houses all come up in one episode. Listen to find out.

How Strength and Speed Training Can Help Build Your Aerobic Capacity
How Strength and Speed Training Can Help Build Your Aerobic Capacity

Strength and speed training positively influenced my client’s Ironman competition outcome, an event that is very aerobic- and lactic power-based, but why? Let’s take a closer look at energy systems as a whole to find out.

The Best Speed Drill for High School Athletes
The Best Speed Drill for High School Athletes

Sprinting with a weighted sled has become my go-to exercise for improving an athlete’s ability to accelerate because it teaches and trains those mechanics. My athletes have consistently improved thanks to to sled sprints!

Dynamic Effort and Practical Application to Football Sports Performance
Dynamic Effort and Practical Application to Football Sports Performance

In layman’s terms, dynamic effort can be described as fast, explosive movement. This seems simple, but many people get lost between “fast and explosive” and “movement.”

WATCH: Pushing the Field Forward at The Spot Athletics
WATCH: Pushing the Field Forward at The Spot Athletics

What started in a 2,000-square-foot facility is now two, 20,000-square-foot locations. And JL Holdsworth has his sights set on even more growth.

Strength Training for Young Athletes — Safety, 1RM Testing, Growth Plates, and Testosterone
Strength Training for Young Athletes — Safety, 1RM Testing, Growth Plate...

In this second part, we are going to look at more research regarding 1RM testing and break down multiple falsehoods about why young athletes should not strength train.

Strength Training for Young Athletes — Benefits, Appropriate Starting Age, and Lifting Heavy Weight
Strength Training for Young Athletes — Benefits, Appropriate Starting Ag...

Telling a kid not to lift but then turning around and having him sprint, cut, and jump in those terms really does sound stupid, doesn’t it?

Speed Work — Are You Doing It Correctly?
Speed Work — Are You Doing It Correctly?

You know the simple rules of dynamic effort training but may be forgetting the small-but-crucial details that make it effective.

Wall Drives-Most Over-Rated Technique Drill?
Wall Drives-Most Over-Rated Technique Drill?

Joe DeFranco puts acceleration and force production into perspective.

Testing Maximum Velocity in Football
Testing Maximum Velocity in Football

Increase potential, increase capacity, and increase performance on the field.

Is it Clueless to be Shoeless?
Is it Clueless to be Shoeless?

The article Foot Locker doesn’t want us to release. Stay tuned for our follow-up sock article (if Fruit-of-the-Loom doesn’t get a hold of it first).

Training for Warriors Podcast
Training for Warriors Podcast

Elitefts alumni Martin Rooney has established himself as a leader in the industry.

What Speed Training Really Means
What Speed Training Really Means

There isn’t any shortage of information when it comes to speed development for both the track and non-track athlete.

Triple Extension Is Important for All Athletes
Triple Extension Is Important for All Athletes

“Speed training” is the latest fad to squeeze money out of misinformed coaches, parents, and athletes.

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