Matt Tometz

Take control of your sports story | Marketing Manager @1080Motion | Speed Coach/Sport Scientist/Former P4 S&C Coach | Views are my own |📍Chicago

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Partner 4-Direction Agility. Learning how to react and create an effective shin angle for the first step, just like defense
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No cones needed, more athletes involved at once, easy progression from 1 steps ➡️ shuffle ➡️ crossovers

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The longer I've coached, reflected on my programming and process, and tried new things, I always come back to these 3 drills for top speed

Plus an honorable mention for a 4th drill

The pros, cons, and videos of each. 13-min video to learn more

Link: https://t.co/E2hJrPPiWm

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There’s a time and place for both, but if (transferring to) sport is the ultimate end goal, probably more time should be spent on relatively specific exercises

I’m not saying “sport-specific” (that’s dumb), I’m saying specific-to-spot

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Do we like bilateral lifts because they’re the heaviest or because they transfer?

There are no solutions in training, only tradeoffs. Bilateral is more stable, often simpler, aka more weight

That’s right or wrong, but we can agree relative to sport, that’s a general stimulus

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"When guys got better lateral, their linear went through the freaking roof"

The combination of heavy load, self-organization, and using the same muscles but in a slightly different way is a powerful stimulus for athletes

As @CoachKSammons outlines, by grinding through heavy exercises just in the sagittal plane can put too much consistent stress on joints. But by changing it up by moving through different planes, athletes can both improve and feel better

Shuffling, lateral pushes, eccentric walking, and any other exercise loaded up in the frontal plane is a "hidden gem" with the 1080 Sprint

Links 👇

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You’d get more value from staying at 50% and competing there for 4 weeks than agonizing over tiny load changes

Or if 15% is your “light” and 60% is your “heavy,” more power to you

These are guidelines, not laws. Use them, then modify/adapt for your reasoning & what you believe

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The truth about velocity decrements (in my opinion)

1️⃣ Premise: resisted sprint loading should account for not only the size/weight of the athlete, but also their ability and skill to run against load

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But beyond that, the details don’t matter nearly as much as people think

You can go from 50% ➡️ 45% ➡️ 40% ➡️ 35% for “linear periodization” if you want

Well guess what?

Your athletes probably can’t feel the difference anyways

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Bought a camera 6 years ago during quarantine to learn how to make YouTube videos

Then I had a networking call in my parent's backyard w/ Peter and he said "your boss says you're creative, want to make a video for us?"

W/ a lot of other stuff in between, still crazy nonetheless

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Because it’s time for more precise and targeted lower-body training

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Because the speed is the stimulus

It’s not the movement that drives adaptation, it’s the velocity. Change the speed and you change the demand on the tissue

The framework:
1️⃣ No movement
2️⃣ Slow movement
3️⃣ Fast movement
4️⃣ Dynamic movement

Start heavy and slow, progress toward fast and dynamic, prepare tissue before asking it to perform

Load sport-specific actions horizontally and unilaterally, build toward overspeed and change of direction, etc. Because it’s the speed that matters applied to the movements that matter

💣💣 from @CoachKSammons

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50% Vdec for "heavy" works for most, great place to start

But it's still general & transfer ➡️ unresisted sprinting

For some, 25% Vdec might be their "heavy"

So yes, “heavy” is usually part of the answer

The nuance is how heavy/how much/when (like anything else in coaching)

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There’s been a lot of discussion about whether every athlete needs heavy running (rightfully so)

But that’s not the right question

A better question is: what is “heavy” for that athlete?

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@les7spellman said mechanics/style can change risk, using @wildy_jj research

@StuartMcMillan1 said some elite/twitchy athletes never touch double digits on the 1080

Cam Josse's research showed faster = velocity dominant, and bigger = force dominant

So “heavy” isn’t universal

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It's more than an event

3 days with coaches who already get it. No surface-level talks, no sitting back and listening

Hands-on demos, real training, and real conversations around what motorized resistance actually unlocks

Because the future of strength and performance training is already here

Free and built only for 1080 users

📍 May 15–17, Austin, TX
🔗 Details and sign-up 👇

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Super glad I was able to be at the Summit in 2023

Being in a room with only 1080 users, the convos, the questions, the level of detail…it’s just different from the start

Can’t wait for this one

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Opportunities to be in a room like this don’t happen often

A room full of 1080 users. Coaches from around the world all speaking the same language. A deep dive into the future of strength and performance training

If you’re in the 1080 community, this is your room. Just take care of your travel and we’ll handle the rest

Speakers (so far):
-Zach Mathers of @alabamaftbl
-@MattPrice_HP of the @LAKings
-Ben Prentiss of Prentiss Hockey Performance
-Jan Seiler of the Swiss Federal Institute of Sport
-More TBA

🗓️ May 15–17, 2026
📍 Train 4 the Game in Austin, TX
🔗 Details and sign-up (1080 customers only) 👇

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The numbers tell you what happened, the curves tell you why

In this RTP case study from @CoachKSammons, an athlete’s power–distance curves were messy:
❌ Flat tops
❌ Inconsistent peaks
❌ Lots of noise
➡️ Inefficient ground interaction

9 days later the curves cleaned up

Not because of more coaching cues, but because a good plan, the constraint of load, and the opportunity to move

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Heavy lateral work isn’t just concentric output ➡️➡️

Be intentional about both eccentric and multi-planar loading to create challenging and powerful stimuli for your athletes

If you only sprint forward and never challenge frontal plane force production or eccentric control, you’re leaving adaptation on the table

Insight from @CoachKSammons during a live demo @ALTIS, taking us through his coaching and loading of shuffling plus all the different ways to apply it

💡 Load the shuffle, own the decel, coach as needed, then watch the linear improve

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I'll be heading to Indy this weekend for the NFL Combine

Would love to connect and talk shop for whoever's interested in getting together 👌

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Different note: indoor volleyball has been kicking my butt, and by butt I mean knees. Not only feeling better feels better, but also experimenting/applying this info

PM rehab
-Sissy Squat ISO 3x30s
-Heel Elevated Split Squat EQI 2x45s ea
(At 5x speed)
(AM rehab was during lunch)

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Listening to @CoachKSammons present will be both the best and worst thing to happen to you

One min you’re inspired, the next min you’re doing 45-sec EQI’s (ouch)

Jokes aside, wanted to give him a shoutout for synthesizing/sharing high-level info about all things tendons and RTP

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-High-frequency tendon loading
-Understanding the different contraction types, forces and implications
-Organizing/progressing different contraction types
-Role of collagen supplementation
-Pushing capacities but with the “why”
-And more