Speed Training Secrets

I recently received an email from a high school football player who was concerned about his speed. He explained that his coaches had him doing a lot squats with weights and even though he felt like he was getting stronger, he noticed he was also losing valuable running speed.

Here is how I advised him – and this applies to anyone in a similar situation.

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I recently started a new client who played free safety for Ohio State Football from 1993-1997. He’s 6-1, 215 lb and played in two Rose Bowl games.

Of course I asked him what he and the other players on the team did for speed training.

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I recently received an email where the person wrote to me explaining how Olympic power cleans were the best speed training exercise he could think of because they exercise a lot of your fast twitch fibers.  This was his idea of a speed training program.

 He claimed that a lot of elite athletes do these exercises.  I don’t doubt that.  But do they do them for speed? Or for strength?

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