Speed

Speed Development (Intro)

by Justyn Warner July 13, 2010

This is an introduction to a three-part series on Speed Development. Read…Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. The ability to take advantage of the potential of one’s body, and do so consistently over time, is a highly technical skill. As coaches and athletes we often forget this concept when talking about speed development, but rarely [...]

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Trying to Get Faster? Form, Form, Form

by Ian Warner June 29, 2010

There is clearly a bunch of ways to get faster. There is not one thing to do that is going to make you faster but sometimes to get faster it is not about what you do, it is how you do it. When I say “how you do it” that means how your body moves. [...]

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5 Speed Training Myths

by Justyn Warner January 23, 2010

Why is it so difficult to improve your speed and become faster? Let’s see… you can’t train speed, you have to be aggressive to run faster, strength training just makes you bulky, interval training is the same as speed training and working on your flexibility doesn’t help your speed? Wrong..there are so many myths associated [...]

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3 Ways to Improve Your Running Biomechanics

by Justyn Warner November 4, 2009

If there was one thing I learned (and remembered) from Dr. Southards’ intense biomechanics class it was running mechanics of a sprinter. Everybody runs differently. There’s no “perfect” running form out there since we all have different lengths in our limbs, different muscle sizes, different fiber sizes, different weight…no athlete will run the same. There are [...]

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