Foundations of Speed Presentation Practical: Tips on teaching the foot 🦶 contact and frontside mechanics to youth athlete’s. Sprinting correctly can be CHALLENGING, but consistent exposure to the right movements and intelligent cueing can make the process much easier!

To every young athlete who thinks they're 'too slow'... speed is trainable. Mechanics are coachable. Your ceiling is higher than you think. Tag an athlete who needs to hear this today. ⬇️

Parents!! Your young athlete doesn't NEED more competitive tournaments, skill camps, and travel. They NEED to sprint, jump, throw, roll, and play freely. ✅ Build the movement library first. They all have a time and place, but rushing it often does more harm than good. Trust the process. Don't burn your athletes out by age 16... that's when they actually can start performing at high levels.

Unpopular opinion: Most youth speed programs are just conditioning programs in disguise. True speed development = acceleration mechanics, force application, and intent. Running more laps doesn't make athletes faster. It makes them tired. Change my mind. 👇

We said do a trick over the hurdles and busts this out… elite coordination/balance

Maximizing Your Summer Training…. Beyond Just Showing Up

Our athletes do these and similar weekly, all year!

When you stop dreaming it’s time to die.

Love this cue for athletes struggling with picking things up off the floor. How many of you use this one? Is there something better?! I’m all ears

What’s your priority. Now what will get you recruited

GAME OF THE WEEK 📈 Noodle 🍜 Juke - Two partners approach holding the noodle and use whatever creative strategy to trick the defender. Noodle crew has to split before attacking target of choice and defender has to tag the athlete that still has the noodle. Check out the benefits in the video and try it out next training session. Follow for more game ideas like this 📈📈

Your kid’s athletic window is shorter than you think. Not to scare you … to wake you up. The years between 10-18 are when the physical foundation gets built. What are you doing with the time that’s left? 🕐

Most youth athletes don’t need more reps of their sport. They need to learn how to move, improve outputs, and recover. Sport-specific skill on top of a broken athletic foundation = a ceiling. Build the athlete first. The sport will thank you later. Agree or disagree? Drop it below 👇

Learned the basics of the bounce-fire series from @KulaPerformance at the @universalspeedrating summit and have been implementing ever since that weekend with my athletes. It’s challenging and checks a tons of boxes as you run through the different variations. Typically I’ll learn something, test on myself, and then test on my athletes I’ve been working with for an extended amount of time. I’ve seen improvements with my athletes that I’ve exposed to the bounce-fire consistently and it builds one of the MOST IMPORTANT aspects of athleticism, coordination! #buildingstrongerhumans #athletedevelopment #speeddevelopment #youthathlete #trainingtips

Get @reshare_app • @coachdhansen Sport doesn’t favorite the athlete with huge gaps in development. Bigs NEED to move fast and smalls need to be STRONG. You can’t avoid weaknesses and make it to the next level anymore. Get fast, get strong, use strength fast, and build COORDINATION [maybe the most important quality] @isaiah_leonard7 is 260 lbs of pure athleticism 📈📈

Snippet from my foundations of speed presentation talking about speed reserve and the big play capabilities high outputs create vs doing traditional long distance conditioning in training for athletes. If you wanted athletes that were just “in-shape” your XC team might be a better fit. Full presentation will be available soon!!

The type of work we get down with 📈