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Posted on: March 11th, 2009 by IYCA 1 Comment
One of my favorite things to teach, both to young athletes as well as
Coaches, is the mechanics of speed.
Deceleration techniques specifically.
And that’s because speed is seldom taught as a skill at all.
Usually, the ‘speed work’ of a training session consists of some hurdles,
cones, sprinting and ‘plyo’ exercises with little attention being paid to
form or function.
Simply put, we don’t often TEACH speed and respect it in the way we
should.
Young athletes can (and should) be taught how to become faster and
more efficient from a movement perspective.
And in order to do that correctly, you must have a progressive system
in place that allows them to learn.
I always teach speed by instructing on the skill of deceleration first –
and I teach that from both a lateral and linear perspective.
Posted on: February 17th, 2009 by IYCA 7 Comments
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If you are like most coaches and trainers I am familiar with, you likely ‘train’ your athletes as a means to elicit biomotor improvement.
You work on various forms of sprints and jumping in order to develop ‘blazing speed’.
You lift weights or perform bodyweight exercises to increase ‘mammoth strength’.
You set out cones and have your young athletes practice elaborate movement drills as a way of improving their ‘stealth-like agility’.
These types of exercises in themselves are not problematic or bad per say…
But they are only quasi-beneficial and extremely narrow-scoped if you aren’t looking to teach your young athletes the skills they need to perform these drills and set them up to improve on the next level.