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Speed training is a structured athletic regimen designed to help your body move faster, more efficiently, and with better control. It combines technique, strength, and cognition to improve your rate of force development (RFD), meaning how quickly your body can produce maximal force. This is 12 year old Emilio Ayala who just got a big speed upgrade from 12 mph to 14 mph in just 3 weeks. Get into Get Fast and get on his level!

There is old but common adage in sports – speed kills!
Every coach has said at one time or another, “He/she is just not fast enough”. Or, they may have said, “He/she is just not explosive enough”.  Either statement usually refers to acceleration or top-end or maximal sprinting speed or both.
So what are you doing to improve the speed and explosiveness of your athletes?
A review of 48 studies that included nearly 1500 subjects concluded that sprinting with a focus on technique elicits the greatest gains in sprint performance. So, if you want to get faster – sprint! However, strength training and plyometrics also influence sprinting speed (Rumpf et al. JSCR 2015).
Immediately following the start action, the powerful extension of the hip, knee, and ankle joint are the main accelerators of the body mass (Delecluse Sports Med 1997). And furthermore, the strength and mobility of the hip joint is critical in sprinting. One study found significant correlations between hip flexion and hip extension strength relative to body weight and sprinting speed among collegiate football and baseball players (Guskiewicz et al. Isokinetics & Exerc Sci, 1993).
This is leveling up and getting on the 10 year old record board!