Training Lab Speed & Agility

Depending on your sport, your sprinting capacity can make or break your athletic performance. As one of the tenets of well-rounded athleticism, speed can be a tricky thing to train unless you know what to improve. Morey Croson, head speed coach and founder of The...

System Based Agility Training

Author: Travis Hansen

Is your agility training actually beneficial to your ability to change direction or help you achieve your performance goals? Travis Hansen gives us insight into how to properly program your agility training to maximize your training effectiveness.

Agility Training vs Change Of Direction

Author: Shea Pierre

A lot of coaches and trainers refer to change of direction (COD) training and agility training as one and the same — but they aren’t. When it comes to COD and agility training, both are necessary for an athlete’s performance, but there are certain drills specific to each that prepare you for anything that’s thrown your way.

7 Flexibility Exercises For Young Athletes To Do

Author: TrainHeroic

Flexibility exercises are integral for young athlete's growth and long term development. It is important for kids to have solid movement patterns taught at an early age by coaches. It is never too early to start your young athletes on some daily flexibility exercises.

Reaction: The Game Changing Element In Training

Author: Ryan Leibrech

Reacting faster is accomplished by quickly processing incoming information and moving specific to that perception of that information. When we correctly process information and move to the right position we end up in the best position to be successful.

Got a Strong Trunk. Good. But Are You Also Mobile?

Author: Phil White

In last month’s post, we explored the reasons for getting your trunk strong, which include improving hip-to-shoulder (and vice versa) power transfer, generating and resisting rotation, and reducing your risk of lower back pain. But while getting strong is all well and good, you’ll only be able to apply it to your full potential if you’re also mobile.

Sprinting 101 for Strength and Conditioning Coaches with Derek Hansen – Part 2

Author: Derek Hensen

There are few more purely athletic pursuits than sprinting, and just about every field and court sport requires running at maximum effort and efficiency. And yet most athletes have major room for improvement in not only their expression of top-end speed, but also their biomechanics and locomotion.

Sprinting 101 for Strength and Conditioning Coaches – Part 1

Author: Derek Hansen

Running is one of the most elemental things we can do as athletes or, for that matter, as human beings. But just because the instinct is hard-wired into our DNA, it doesn’t mean that it’s something you can just put into your programming willy-nilly, particularly when it comes to sprinting.

Accelerate to Dominate: 5 Drills That Improve Acceleration

Like most things in Strength and Conditioning, acceleration is extremely trainable. It's entirely possible for an athlete to hack tenths of a second off of their 40 like butter with a good training program, and this shows up big-time on the field.

The Truth About Speed and Agility Training

It is time to bring to light what is really behind developing speed, and it doesn’t start with any miracle drill or band attached to you while you run. Now, before we go down the rabbit hole, let me bring us to the point of this article.

Why Understanding Arm Action Is a Critical Factor in Teaching Speed

As a coach with over a decade of experience in the realms of track and field and sports performance, I’ve noticed a common trend when it comes to the arms: people think arms aren’t that big of a factor in how we sprint.

Single Leg Workouts to Build Speed and Explosiveness

They’re all searching for the dynamic speed drill to increase their velocity and the elusive top-end speed routine that will knock off those two seconds and destroy that pro-agility drill that will only leave coaches, scouts and other contemporaries exclaiming in profanities. So where is this magic pill to elevate that potential and unlock speed you ask?