Universal Speed Rating

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[Universal Speed Rating @universal_speed]

An elite community of coaches, obsessed with helping athletes train smarter and play faster.

Speed Labs just hit:

🏃‍♂️ 100k+ athletes
📊 500k+ assessments
📍 200+ locations nationwide

Time to keep building.

Become a Speed Lab⏬

[Tony Holler @pntrack]

In the next two weeks, I will be introducing our 16 TFC speakers. I’m excited to bring in @TheNewAthlete (Ryan Paul) from the Pacific Northwest. I was blown away hearing Ryan speak for @UbrZati and @universal_speed.

Ryan’s Adam Archuleta & Jay Schroeder stuff will make you think differently.

Here’s his bio ⤵️

Ryan Paul is a sports performance coach, speed development specialist, and founder of New Athlete, a training organization based in the Pacific Northwest, with facilities in Vancouver, Washington, and Hillsboro, Oregon.

Ryan founded New Athlete in 2001 and has spent more than 25 years helping athletes improve speed, strength, explosiveness, mobility, and durability. According to his company's website, he has worked with more than 140 NFL players, 1,350 collegiate athletes, 25 All-Americans, and thousands of athletes across multiple sports.
Ryan serves as a Northwest Director of Speed Labs for Universal Speed Rating (USR) and holds certifications in Functional Range Conditioning, Functional Range Assessment, GOATA movement training, speed and strength coaching, and corrective exercise.

His training philosophy emphasizes movement efficiency, force absorption, deceleration, and injury prevention. His methods incorporate eccentric and isometric strength training, individualized movement assessments, and data-driven speed development.

Over 25 years of training, Ryan has greatly shaped his programming through Jay Schroeder and his ultra-fit training principles. Jay Schroeder was Adam Archuleta’s trainer and featured in the epic video "Freak of Training."  

Ryan is particularly interested in helping athletes become faster without sacrificing their health. His approach challenges traditional strength and conditioning practices that prioritize increasing strength without adequately addressing movement quality, speed, and athletic durability.

Ryan and his wife have four children and three grandchildren.

TICKETS ⤵️
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[Hunter Eisenhower @Huntereis_sc]

🙏

USR Summit 26’

[Wiz Sports Performance @WIZSportsPerf]

In-season is when it counts. It’s also when speed training can get pushed aside.

Keep developing the speed your need on game day! Train with us at our @universal_speed Speed Lab in Pleasant Grove! ⚡️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

Visit our website to get started.

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#speed
#training
#gym

[Tony Holler @pntrack]

Last Saturday at Les Spellman’s USR Speed Summit in Frisco, TX, Brian Kula and I tried something different…

No script.
No slides.

It went so well, we might have to do it again!

[CURVE Sports @curve_sports]

PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT

CURVE Sports has named @universal_speed an Official BODY Testing Partner for the CURVE Sports Test.

USR’s certified Speed Labs will deliver standardized athletic testing at CURVE events nationwide.

Read more: https://t.co/FAYpdp5RBX

[Darren Hansen @CoachDHansen]

You want to grow? Back it up with effort.

You want to be a better coach? Get uncomfortable.

You want to impact human beings? Continue learning, experimenting on yourself, and leading.

Pride yourself on providing the best experience and service possible? Better be getting out there and surrounding yourself with the BEST.

It’s easy to want these things and even proclaim them from behind a screen 📺 … and too many in our industry do it.

The @universal_speed summit is an opportunity to move the needle.

I had the opportunity to teach, guide and LEARN from the best coaches in the country this past weekend. People that are doing it for the right reasons, period.

Each year I come home with a better understanding, bigger visions of the future, and more outstanding humans to lean on for guidance throughout the year.

I’m better for it, HansenAthletics is better for it, and my athletes will be getting an ever better experience.

This is just the beginning. Locked and loaded for a big push. LET’S GO.

[Universal Speed Rating @universal_speed]

Register here: https://t.co/AgZwVZuPpj

[Universal Speed Rating @universal_speed]

🚨 Live webinar this Thursday with founding members of the Speed Science Institute @KenClarkSpeed @StuartMcMillan1 and @les7spellman

Register below!

[Tony Holler @pntrack]

Last night, I recorded a FTC Podcast with Cale Sanders @CoachSanders88, HC of the Carlsbad Cavemen.

Carlsbad was the first 🏈 team accepted into the @universal_speed FTC Academy.

They’ve gone 100% Sprint Based Football after attending our clinic in Saraland, AL, in Jan 2025.

[Tony Holler @pntrack]

Ambitious rollout of the Feed the Cats Academy backed by @les7spellman, @kenclark, @KulaPerformance, and @universal_speed ⤵️

Round one filled up (10 founding programs are in!) so we are opening the doors again.

Every athlete in the FTC Academy receives a single speed rating (0–99), ranked against the entire FTC community. ⤵️

https://t.co/HIQzcPY8W9

[CURVE Sports @curve_sports]

🔥 The Vertical Jump measures lower-body explosiveness and an athlete’s ability to produce force quickly.

See the leaders from every class tested at the CURVE Sports West Coast Regional.

BODY testing delivered with @universal_speed

[Universal Speed Rating @universal_speed]

@altis is now the Official Education Partner of Universal Speed Rating. 🏁

Speed Lab coaches get a co-branded ALTIS course (free), 25% off ALTIS programs, MSc scholarships + @StuartMcMillan1 joins the Speed Science Institute.

🔗 Full Announcement: https://t.co/XPitZdSJ0B

[Darren Hansen @CoachDHansen]

Killer @universal_speed showcase today with some amazing coaches and athletes 📈📈

[Michael Beseris @coachbeseris]

🔥🔥FASTEST IN IDAHO🔥🔥

Shoutout to our guy EL PAPÍ for walking away with the top Max Velocity at this year’s @universal_speed Idaho showcase! Huge accomplishment against some absolutely elite competition across the state!

Jose is one of the hardest working individuals i’ve ever met, and he does it with so much joy and passion it truly is a pleasure! PROUD OF YOU! 👊🏽

[Carlsbad Cavemen Football @CavemenFBall]

Some other DUDES! #Brotherhood #SBF @universal_speed

[Carlsbad Cavemen Football @CavemenFBall]

We’re very fortunate to be one of 10 schools nationwide to be a part of Feed The Cats Academy! Had our first test with @universal_speed yesterday! We got some dudes!!! #brotherhood #fastcats #SBF

[Tony Holler @pntrack]

In 1999, I began to record, rank, and publish everything.

I had the best technology of the time (a stopwatch & Excel). I taped rankings to the walls of our pole-barn weight room. We were 4x1 state champs four of the next five years.

Measure meaningful things to make meaningful things more meaningful.

Les Spellman and @universal_speed have created a new world. The Feed the Cats Academy takes record, rank, and publish to the next level.

The academy is backed by trusted friend Dr. Ken Clark and the Speed Science Institute to ensure proper protocols are followed on data collection and scoring.

The Academy is open. 10 founding programs will be accepted. More will be accepted later. Apply now!

https://t.co/HIQzcPY8W9

[Universal Speed Rating @universal_speed]

RT @pntrack: Ambitious roll-out of the Feed the Cats Academy backed by @les7spellman, @kenclark, @KulaPerformance, and @universal_speed

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[Couch Potato Sports Coverage @CouchPSports]

Hope Christian OL/DL Cooper Cecil (@cooper_cecil73) can SCOOT! He was a standout today at the USR showcase, and the renowned ukulele player enters his senior as one of the top trench players. Clip brought to you by @transcend_nm #newmexico #newmexicosports #albuquerque #hopechristian #highschoolfootball

[Chaz Wright 🌵 @ChazWrightTV]

WATCH— Transcend NM and Universal Speed Rating partnered together to put on a Universal Speed Rating Showcase at La Cueva yesterday!

We caught up with a few people responsible for putting on the event as well as a couple of athletes!

Hear from them below! ⬇️

@coachstev