Because both developing athletes and your brand should be simple | Marketing Manager @1080motion | Sports Performance, Sport Science | Views are my own
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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 👇
I ran a speed session for 40 middle/high school athletes and was asked to speak about what they can learn from my experience training pros
Later I reflected on the session itself: the drills were very similar to what I'd use w/ my college/pro athletes
So what's the difference?
It's the intent, focus, and fact that they've simply done good training at a high level for a long time
Pros might pick up drills quicker, control their body better, & have a higher output. That's what makes them pros
But the wheel isn't reinvented the higher up an athlete gets
How you are using Agility Creator the most 🔥 we’re cooking!
Plus a video showing the most frequently used drill setup
Available in the App Store
Social media rewards sensationalism, but real training doesn't work that way
If you’ve actually trained athletes, you know training is doing good stuff, savagely well, over a long time
Yes there are sensational moments. Jumping, sprinting, new PRs, it all coming together
(1/2)
The ability to consume information, process, and decide what to do both efficiently and effectively is what separates athletes
With that being said, yes, I understand a 4-direction hop isn't exactly the hardest thing in the world
But reacting to the arrows made this 10x harder
Sprint-specific conditioning (sound up)
Heavy A-Runs for time
Load ➡️ slower
Slower ➡️ simpler
Simpler ➡️ internal focus
Internal focus ➡️ big front-side shapes
~26 steps per rep ➡️ ~78 exposures to the feeling we want
Summarizing speed training with 3 main ideas
As long as everything you’re doing, from warm-ups to lifting to selecting KPI’s, comes back to one of these ideas, you’ll be making your athletes faster
Full video on my YT
Ironically, in the age of chasing trends and trying to finesse "the algorithm," content is actually more evergreen now than ever
My top YouTube videos from this past month: all made in 2023 or earlier
No trends or editing "hacks," just ideas and too much free time
Matt Tometz retweeted
The case for heavy loading in return-to-play: slower velocity, a symmetrical demand, and data to support the process
@CoachKSammons shares part of his RTP protocol he applied with his NFL athlete coming back from a hamstring injury: both heavy linear and lateral horizontal loading on the 1080 Sprint, then progressive running drills in between
Because athletes need real and specific stimuli in multiple planes with objective data so RTP is about development and decisions, not hoping
Not every unilateral force in sprinting lives in the sagittal plane
For the hips, attention goes extension first & flexion second, rightfully so
But every ground contact, the stance leg hip abductors work eccentrically/isometrically to resist the oppo hip of swing leg dropping
Matt Tometz retweeted
Our first speaker announcement and the headliner for the 1080 Summit in Switzerland is @jb_morin ‼️
A 2-hour special on both understanding and how to train each piece of the force transmission chain to sprint and move faster. Not only will we be talking about it, but we'll be doing it live with a practical session
A 3-day event in 📍Magglingen, Switzerland to learn from the best and connect with coaches in the 1080 community from all over the world. June 11th-13th, 2027
This event is free and exclusive to 1080 customers only (Sprint, Cable, Squat, Syncro). The event will be limited to 100 attendees and 2 practitioners per organization
More details and registration 👇👇
Speed training (oversimplified) in 2 main ideas
1️⃣ Sprint fast enough, often enough
-Fast enough: +95% of your best
-Often enough: at least 1x a week
2️⃣ Hit the ground hard & effective
-Hard: relative strength, lower body stiffness
-Effective: in the right direction (mechanics)
Where my GOAT Drill people at?
Numbers, colors, and directions
All you need is an iPhone or iPad, download “Agility Creator” in the App Store
When potentiating, more contrast is better right?
Maybe for simpler exercises, but not sprinting
Learned by trial and error:
-Heavy (50% Vdec), athletes couldn't finish the unresisted run without stumbling
-Light (10% Vdec), each unresisted run was simply just smooth and faster