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If It Ain’t Broke: How Florida Track & Field Integrates New Tools In a Winning Program

Coaches Mike Holloway and Nic Petersen of Florida Gators Track and Field discuss their strategies for focusing on sound technique and the basics while integrating new training tools and technologies such as the 1080 Sprint.

Utilizing 1080 Quantum to Safely Expedite Return-to-Play

Oblique strains and tears routinely immobilize football quarterbacks, baseball hitters, golfers, and tennis pros — by utilizing the 1080 Quantum, rehab professionals can safely guide return-to-play protocols for this challenging injury.

Chasing Watts and Shaving 40 Times at the RIG Academy

Coach Robert Johansson of the RIG Academy in Uppsala, Sweden, discusses his system for developing speed and power with resisted sprints on the 1080 Sprint.

Beyond Top Speed—7 Keys to Peak Power with Indiana Football’s Matt Rhea

Matt Rhea is a speed guy. A PhD in fact, focusing on performance enhancements largely centered on making athletes faster on the football field. In just over a year as the Athletic Performance Coach for Indiana University’s football program—after a stint as the Head of Sport Science at the IMG Academy—Rhea has helped guide the […]

Velocity and Ground Contact for Cricket Bowlers with Steffan Jones

Ten years after Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson made his MLB debut and blazed that memorable Bo Knows trajectory from the gridiron to the diamond (and back again), Steffan Jones straddled a similar crossroads in professional rugby and cricket. Football and baseball, rugby and cricket, wildly different sports at the technical, tactical, and psychological levels, […]

1080 Sprint For Fast Bowling, by Steffan Jones

Over the last year, Pacelab Ltd has spent hours assessing and profiling fast bowlers and sprinters. Some of these athletes are based at our school (in particular the sprinters), whilst others are professional and international fast bowlers. As Director of Pacelab Ltd, I have developed a desire to take the guesswork out of coaching fast […]

Speed On The Ice: Olympic Training With Cory Kennedy

Program of Excellence. Own the Podium. Gold Medal Profiles. Long Term Player Development. The funding bodies and high performance ethos that support Hockey Canada’s drive for Olympic success cohere around a culture of well-designed and dedicated training. KPI’s are identified and tracked. Benchmarks are tested and modeled. Physical trends and adaptations are monitored, measured, and […]

Acceleration, Ground Speed, and Liftoff with Jumps Coach Jacob Cohen

“If you’ve got speed, you can figure out how to jump. It’s just not that complicated to me.” Power, velocity, and force, the connection is simple enough, and guided by Jumps and Combined Events Coach Jacob Cohen, athletes in the University of Illinois track program have been doing more than just figuring out how to […]

Tools of the Mechanic: Under the Hood with Hurdle Coach Boogie Johnson

When someone tells you who they are, listen. Lawrence “Boogie” Johnson—the 2013 USA Track & Field Coach of the Year and current Head Track & Field Coach for California State University, Northridge (CSUN)—has the bona fides to call himself whatever he chooses. Even as he trains a crew of notable Olympians, including 2016 Rio medalists Brianna […]

Next Level Power Gains with Long Driver Ryan Steenberg

Let’s get this out of the way from the get-go—Ryan Steenberg is not normal. It’s not normal to drive a golf ball 300 yards and hit baseballs “off the planet” at age eleven. It’s not normal to play two years of quarterback at the collegiate level and then switch to the opposite side of the […]