Introductory Course
Major Learning Outcome: How to immediately triple the effectiveness of your practices.
Duration: 2.5 hours
Location: Classroom
Primary Audience: Sport Coaches, Researchers, Strength & Conditioning Coaches, Players, Performance Directors
Prerequisites: None
Topics:
- Cognitive, Technical, and Athletic Speeds
- Key Tactics Shared by All Combat, Racquet and Team Sports
- How Speed Determines Individual and Team Success
- The Aerobic Fallacy
- Maximizing Training Adaptations
- Clarifying the Confusion Around Concurrent Training
- Tripling the Effectiveness of Every Practice
- A Process of Performance Enhancement
Foundation Course
Major Learning Outcomes: What players should focus on to make the right decisions faster. Tools for maximizing the rates of learning and retention of sports skills and plays. How to coach the most important drills for improving athletic (movement) speed on any surface. Maximizing performance through efficient and effective warm-ups.
Duration: 2 days
Location: Classroom and Field/Track
Primary Audience: Strength & Conditioning Coaches, Sport Coaches, Managers, Scouts, Physio/Athletic Therapists
Prerequisites: Introductory Course
Topics:
- Maximizing Transfer from Practice to Competition (Cog. & Tech. Speeds)
- Complete Warm-ups for Practice and Competition (Cog. Tech. & Ath. Speeds)
- Boosting Rates of Retention (Technical Speed)
- The Rabbit Hole of Data Analytics (Cognitive Speed)
- Anticipation Is Not Prediction (Cognitive Speed)
- Early Recognition and Reaction (Cognitive Speed)
- Sports Vision (Cognitive Speed)
- Motor Skill Acquisition (Technical Speed)
- Cool Downs (Athletic Speed)
- Sport Skill Mastery (Technical Speed)
- Neuromuscular Function for Moving Fast (Athletic Speed)
- The Biomechanics of Sprinting (Athletic Speed)
SPECIALTY COURSES
Cognitive Speed
Major Learning Outcomes: Building on the Foundation Course, participants learn how to scrutinize video and data to gain advantages against real-world dynamic opponents (rather than theoretical statistical simulations that rarely pan out). Strategies for optimizing the cognitive performance of players on game-day are also addressed in detail.
Duration: 1 day
Location: Classroom
Primary Audience: Sport Coaches, Strength & Conditioning Coaches, Mental Coaches, Scouts
Prerequisites: Foundation Course
Topics:
- Response Inhibition
- Advanced Cognitive Training Drills
- Optimal Arousal
- Identifying Types of Speed Deficiencies
- Self-Scouting
- Scouting Opponents
- Effective Video Analysis
- Sleep
- Nutrition
- Advanced Sports Vision Training
Technical Speed
Major Learning Outcomes: Tips for enhancing the execution speed of any sports-specific skill. Applied methods for maximizing the effectiveness and efficiency of technical practices. Speed-based positional techniques* to gain an advantage over opponents.
Duration: 1-2 days depending on the sport (some sport-specific versions available*)
Location: Classroom and Court/Field/Mat
Primary Audience: Sport Coaches, Strength & Conditioning Coaches
Prerequisites: Foundation Course
Topics:
- Effective Teaching Methods
- Practice Design
- Rotating Through Drills
- Communication Skills
- What Coaches Should be Looking For
- Learning Progressions
- Drills for Skills
- High-Speed Sport-Specific Techniques
*currently we offer a General Technical Speed Course and an American/Canadian Football version. Other sport-specific courses are in development.
Athletic Speed – Running, Stopping, Cutting & Jumping
Major Learning Outcomes: Exercises and drills for improving athletic speed in three dimensions as it relates to the player moving from point A to B (to C, D, E…) that build upon those learned in the Foundation Course. With both performance enhancement and injury prevention in mind, participants also learn how to prioritize, progress, and periodize the various exercises based on season, sport, and individual capabilities of the players.
Duration: 3 days
Location: Classroom, weight room, and Court/Track/Field
Primary Audience: Strength & Conditioning Coaches, Sports Coaches, Physio/Athletic Therapists
Prerequisites: Foundation Course
Topics:
- Lateral, Linear, and Angular Movement
- Starts
- Acceleration
- Maximum Velocity
- Jumping
- Stopping and Landing
- Changes of Direction
- Redirection
- Changes of Locomotion
- Adjusting to Various Sport Surfaces
- Biomechanics
- Functional Anatomy
- Neuromuscular Control
Athletic Speed – Throwing, Swinging, Striking & Kicking
Major Learning Outcomes: Both performance enhancement and injury prevention are given attention as exercises and drills for improving athletic speed –as it relates to launching a projectile or striking an opponent– are presented. Participants also learn how to prioritize, progress, and periodize the various exercises based on season, sport, and individual capabilities of the players.
Duration: 2 days
Location: Classroom, weight room and Court/Field/Mat
Primary Audience: Strength & Conditioning Coaches, Sports Coaches, Physio/Athletic Therapists
Prerequisites: Foundation Course
Topics:
- Quickness vs. Maximal Velocity
- Biomechanics
- Functional Anatomy
- Neuromuscular Control
- Throwing
- Swinging
- Striking
- Kicking
Integration Course
Major Learning Outcomes: As the name suggests, participants learn how to bring together material from the entire curriculum to optimally develop players over the long term. Techniques for managing a large roster of players in various stages of their athletic careers are explained. Likewise, methods for juggling technical and tactical practices with S&C, travel, and the (seemingly competing) requests of the performance team members are provided.
Duration: 4 days
Location: Classroom and Court/Field/Mat
Primary Audience: Strength & Conditioning Coaches, Sport Coaches, Performance Directors
Prerequisites: 2 or More Specialty Courses
Topics:
- LTAD for Youth Athletes
- LTAD for Adult Athletes
- Testing and Monitoring
- Interpreting and Managing Outliers
- Fixture Congestion/Load Management
- Recovery vs. Adaptation
- Conditioning
- Talent Identification and Needs Analysis
- Task to Training Matrices
- Comprehensive Periodization Schemes
- Advanced Speed Training Methodologies
- Optimizing Muscle Length