Coach Education Resources
Same Speed. Different Shapes.
A sprinter and a footballer can hit the same top speed and look nothing alike. New research pulls the two apart, front-side against ground-based, and finds the shape isn't what decides the speed. Here's what actually does, and how to coach it.
Borrowed From Footballers
A sprint is three efforts, not one, and most of the research was run on footballers. How to train acceleration, top speed and speed endurance across the 100, 200 and 400, with calculators for splits, sled loads and fly targets.