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Nothing catches the eye of fans, scouts, and coaches more than elite, on-field speed. It’s the one thing that can change the course of a game in a single play.

Here’s how to develop game-breaking speed (THREAD)

h/t to the🐐@korfist ... go follow him if you don't already.

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speed is a skill

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FEED THE 🐅🐅🐅’s

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reps with intent! everything has a purpose.

How you do something is how you do everything.

[Zach Dechant @ZachDechant]

The warmup for us is not a part of the training session that we breeze over just to get it done. It’s a critical piece in our training session that serves as a opportunity for development. It contains movement literacy, mobility, coordination, and proprioception

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I’m summary: Fuel up, hydrate, stretch out, visualize, and sleep well. These 5 things will lead to a better performance on game days.

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Finally, the fifth step. Get quality sleep. It’s usually hard to sleep the night before a big game, but a cold shower before bed, a blacked out dark room, and all electronics kept deep in a drawer somewhere will help improve quality of sleep.

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The night before game day is crucial. How you prepare for the day to come is vital to your success. Here’s 5 things you can do to optimize your performance on game day. (THREAD🧵)

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4) VISUALIZATION. Visualization allows the athlete to get extra reps the night before a game. Instruct your athletes to visualize, with great detail, 2-3 plays, executed at a high level. This is best accomplished in a relaxed state. (Preferably after stretching)

[Alan Bishop @CoachAlanBishop]

BLOOD. DON'T. LIE.

Panels run on 30 elite football players show deficiency/insufficiency as follows:

Omega 3 Index: 29 of 30 below optimal ranges

Vitamin D: 25 of 30 below optimal ranges

Magnesium: 27 of 30 below optimal ranges

TAKE YOUR SUPPLEMENTS!

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Good stuff here.

'Let’s focus on what has already worked and refine what gives back faster times, not look for popular drills and new sport science trends.'

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[Sprint Science @spikesonly]

The greatest accelerator in the world left us a lot of clues yet coaches are buying into a lot of strange and unproven theories. Instead of speculating we just ask the basic questions and not attempt to make it more complicated?

Here is a 🧵 🪡 from the best lessons from Tokyo.

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Performance isn’t about how much stress a coach can impose on the athlete, but about how much volume of stress the athlete can recover from and adapt to, and then go and compete again. https://t.co/gmIZgRAxQG via @SimpliFaster

[Gerry DeFilippo @Challenger_ST]

Athletes: acceleration is only as useful as your ability to DECELERATE

It really comes into play w/ many things we do across sport

- Reducing hamstring/knee injury likelihood

- Positively impacting our ability to change directions

- Helping w/ arm health for throwing athletes

[SimpliFaster @SimpliFaster]

𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆: 4 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆

"Pre-practice warm-up is max-velocity-themed to retain & touch on the reactive strength components & technical components that were developed through the off-season."

🗓️ @CoachJoeyG @FAUFootball
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[Les Spellman @les7spellman]

3 drills you'll see regularly in our workouts

Drill 1: fast leg alternating

-- isolate each leg movement
-- full flexion
-- travel backwards on contact