Get up to Speed

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 […]

To Heal and To Correct: Applying the 1080 Quantum in a Clinical Setting

The concept is nothing new. From Ben Franklin’s axiom an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure to Charlie Weingroff’s presentation series “Training = Rehab, Rehab = Training,” problem-solvers have long recognized the need to address the underlying causes of an issue rather than simply reacting after each issue flares up. In a clinical […]

Lessons in Defying Gravity with Coach Caryl Smith Gilbert

The sun is already beginning to bear down at 9am in central Los Angeles, saturating the athletic complex at the University of Southern California with a lazy heaviness further exaggerated by the easygoing pace of a campus in summertime. A few swimmers can be spied gliding down their lanes at the Uytengsu Aquatics Center, but […]

Speed 101 With Dr. Matt Rhea and Indiana University Football

“You didn’t know you registered for this class, did you?” Indoors, outdoors, speed class is in session on the turf with Dr. Matt Rhea, Athletic Performance Coach for the Indiana Hoosiers football team. The curriculum? Get faster. The syllabus? A speed development plan for each player, with programming and goals based on their individualized profiles. […]

Microdosing and In-Season Strength Maintenance with the LA Kings’ Matt Price

Regardless of the unique demands of the sport or league, high performance coaches across the NBA, Premier League, MLB, NHL, and beyond all face a common challenge: the prolonged grind of the regular season threatens to sap the strength and speed gains they worked to achieve in the pre-season. Matt Price, head strength and conditioning […]

1080 Sprint: After-hours work outshines ‘negative results’ at University of Guelph

“Negative results” should be an oxymoron, the sort of throwback phrase you use ironically to get a smug chuckle at the expense of earlier generations. But somehow the idea still has purchase around the scientific community. Not at the University of Guelph’s Human Performance and Health Research Laboratory. Dr. Jamie Burr and HPL graduate student […]