Take control of your sports story | Marketing Manager @1080Motion | Speed Coach/Sport Scientist/Former P4 S&C Coach | Views are my own |📍Chicago
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Jun 7
Sprint fast enough, often enough
The most important principle in speed development, especially for team sport athletes
-Fast enough: 95% or better of your best time
-Often enough: ~1x a week
Full YT video, 3 speed training principles 👇
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Jun 10
Recent reflections on "specific-to-sport" vs "sport-specific"
Training is relatively general. That's why it's called training and not practice
Example:
1️⃣ Specific-to-sport = triphasic core training
2️⃣ Sport-specific = throwing medballs off a mound
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Jun 10
There's a time and place for both as training should go general ➡️ specific
But don't forget training itself is still general. That's not a bad thing, that's actually the point
Find small ways to make training more "specific-to-sport" while letting be a general development tool
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Jun 8
Active recovery: getting blood flow to the muscles with concentric-only work (causing minimal soreness)
-15yd ea (6 total): forwards, backwards, sideways (ea), crossover (ea)
-Stretch 2-3 min
-3 rounds total
-25kg (no pulley) w/ an ecc speed of 1m/s for no load on the way back
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Jun 7
Sprint fast enough, often enough
The most important principle in speed development, especially for team sport athletes
-Fast enough: 95% or better of your best time
-Often enough: ~1x a week
Full YT video, 3 speed training principles 👇
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May 27
The longer I've coached, reflected on my programming and process, and tried new things, I always come back to these 3 drills for top speed
Plus an honorable mention for a 4th drill
The pros, cons, and videos of each. 13-min video to learn more
Link: youtu.be/GF5grr9wpmY
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May 26
Do we like bilateral lifts because they’re the heaviest or because they transfer?
There are no solutions in training, only tradeoffs. Bilateral is more stable, often simpler, aka more weight
That’s right or wrong, but we can agree relative to sport, that’s a general stimulus
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May 26
There’s a time and place for both, but if (transferring to) sport is the ultimate end goal, probably more time should be spent on relatively specific exercises
I’m not saying “sport-specific” (that’s dumb), I’m saying specific-to-spot
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Matt Tometz retweeted
May 22
"When guys got better lateral, their linear went through the freaking roof"
The combination of heavy load, self-organization, and using the same muscles but in a slightly different way is a powerful stimulus for athletes
As @CoachKSammons outlines, by grinding through heavy exercises just in the sagittal plane can put too much consistent stress on joints. But by changing it up by moving through different planes, athletes can both improve and feel better
Shuffling, lateral pushes, eccentric walking, and any other exercise loaded up in the frontal plane is a "hidden gem" with the 1080 Sprint
Links 👇
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May 21
The truth about velocity decrements (in my opinion)
1️⃣ Premise: resisted sprint loading should account for not only the size/weight of the athlete, but also their ability and skill to run against load
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May 21
But beyond that, the details don’t matter nearly as much as people think
You can go from 50% ➡️ 45% ➡️ 40% ➡️ 35% for “linear periodization” if you want
Well guess what?
Your athletes probably can’t feel the difference anyways
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May 21
You’d get more value from staying at 50% and competing there for 4 weeks than agonizing over tiny load changes
Or if 15% is your “light” and 60% is your “heavy,” more power to you
These are guidelines, not laws. Use them, then modify/adapt for your reasoning & what you believe
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May 5
Bought a camera 6 years ago during quarantine to learn how to make YouTube videos
Then I had a networking call in my parent's backyard w/ Peter and he said "your boss says you're creative, want to make a video for us?"
W/ a lot of other stuff in between, still crazy nonetheless
May 5
Because it’s time for more precise and targeted lower-body training
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Train with precise load, eccentric overload, and isokinetic resistance to improve strength, power, and performance
✅ Built for squats, deadlifts, and single-leg movements
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Matt Tometz retweeted
Apr 13
Because the speed is the stimulus
It’s not the movement that drives adaptation, it’s the velocity. Change the speed and you change the demand on the tissue
The framework:
1️⃣ No movement
2️⃣ Slow movement
3️⃣ Fast movement
4️⃣ Dynamic movement
Start heavy and slow, progress toward fast and dynamic, prepare tissue before asking it to perform
Load sport-specific actions horizontally and unilaterally, build toward overspeed and change of direction, etc. Because it’s the speed that matters applied to the movements that matter
💣💣 from @CoachKSammons
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Apr 9
There’s been a lot of discussion about whether every athlete needs heavy running (rightfully so)
But that’s not the right question
A better question is: what is “heavy” for that athlete?
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Apr 9
@les7spellman said mechanics/style can change risk, using @wildy_jj research
@StuartMcMillan1 said some elite/twitchy athletes never touch double digits on the 1080
Cam Josse's research showed faster = velocity dominant, and bigger = force dominant
So “heavy” isn’t universal
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Apr 9
50% Vdec for "heavy" works for most, great place to start
But it's still general & transfer ➡️ unresisted sprinting
For some, 25% Vdec might be their "heavy"
So yes, “heavy” is usually part of the answer
The nuance is how heavy/how much/when (like anything else in coaching)
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Matt Tometz retweeted
Apr 7
It's more than an event
3 days with coaches who already get it. No surface-level talks, no sitting back and listening
Hands-on demos, real training, and real conversations around what motorized resistance actually unlocks
Because the future of strength and performance training is already here
Free and built only for 1080 users
📍 May 15–17, Austin, TX
🔗 Details and sign-up 👇
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Mar 24
Super glad I was able to be at the Summit in 2023
Being in a room with only 1080 users, the convos, the questions, the level of detail…it’s just different from the start
Can’t wait for this one
Mar 24
Opportunities to be in a room like this don’t happen often
A room full of 1080 users. Coaches from around the world all speaking the same language. A deep dive into the future of strength and performance training
If you’re in the 1080 community, this is your room. Just take care of your travel and we’ll handle the rest
Speakers (so far):
-Zach Mathers of @alabamaftbl
-@MattPrice_HP of the @LAKings
-Ben Prentiss of Prentiss Hockey Performance
-Jan Seiler of the Swiss Federal Institute of Sport
-More TBA
🗓️ May 15–17, 2026
📍 Train 4 the Game in Austin, TX
🔗 Details and sign-up (1080 customers only) 👇
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