Training Lab Speed & Agility

There are three aspects of improving speed – running technique, muscle elasticity, and strength! The problem is many coaches and athletes aren’t optimizing their speed strength training with the right program design to reap the greatest benefits in speed and force production.

Off-Season Training for High School Football: Developing Explosive Speed and Power

In the first article, we discussed the first three months of your off-season program, from December to February. During this time your emphasis should be to recover from the season, lay the foundation for your off-season program, build strength, and develop the lifts and abilities you will shape your training around.

Movement Progressions: A Better Way To Overcome Training Plateaus

Having used scaled exercises for years in our gym, we have seen that it can lead to plateaus with slower progress out of the scaled version, along with some bad habits and more frequent injuries.

With lots of frustration, and trial and error, we decided to rely less on scaled exercises in favor of exercise progression.

Mobility For Athletes: More Important Than Ever

Unlike the old days where our grandfathers and great grandfathers’ bodies began to lose function because of a lifetime of physical labor, many of our kids and young adults are beginning to show similar signs of breakdown - but for the opposite reason.

Improve Athleticism With These 4 Reactive Agility Drills

While cones, hurdles, and the like can serve a purpose, the majority of the exercises programmed with them are huge time-wasters. As an athlete, having finely tuned agility is necessary to competing at the highest level — regardless of your sport or position.

Density Training for Explosive Athletes

A crucial element our workout programming approach to building explosive athletes is density training.

3 Speed Training Methods That Don’t Work (And What To Do Instead)

In the realm of getting fast, there are lots of proposed fixes... lots of things that “look” like they are training speed. But in the end, not as many things truly work as well as they say.

3 Plyometric Exercises for Olympic-Level Speed and Power

Just getting stronger is only part of the equation of gaining the status of an athletic legend. In order to reach the pinnacle of speed and power, you need regularly apply speed and plyometric exercises within your program that match the intensity of 40-inch vertical jumps and 4.3 second 40 yard dashes.

3 French Contrast Workouts For Improving Acceleration, Vertical Jump, And Change of Direction

Have you been looking for a training modality that can rapidly deliver gains in speed, power, and vertical leaping ability? If you want to get powerful in a hurry, there are few applications that will deliver this in the manner that the French Contrast platform can.