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Sprint Start from Lateral Shuffle

Hey everyone. In this video, we're going to be discussing a sprint start starting from a lateral shuffle. So in this drill, what we're going to do is instruct our athlete to line up facing a direction about 90 degrees from where they're running. And so what we're going to do is we'll start into a...

A March acceleration dorsiflexion speed

Hey, everyone! Today we're going to be discussing A March for linear speed development and acceleration development. So we're going to instruct our athlete to get in the starting position and the big emphasis for this drill is achieving maximum dorsiflexion or toe up and then driving through the...

A Skip

Hey everyone! Today we're going to be discussing an A Skip. The setup will be similar to the A Hop and A March like we did in the earlier videos. So for this we are going to assume the starting position. So our two big points of focus here are knee drive, toe up and then pushing through our toe...

Quad Set with Resisted Dorsiflexion dorsiflexion

All right, now we're going to take a look at doing some resistance to dorsiflexion, to kind of get some overflow to the quad to get a stronger quad contraction. So we just simply wrap tubing around the foot here and go ahead and tighten up your quad for me. Good. And then bring your toes...

Side Bridge

Push To Base agility speed

Hey, everyone. Today we're going to be discussing a lateral push to base drill for lateral speed and agility. So what we'll do is instruct our athlete to get in the starting position in an athletic ready position. Then what we're going to do is we are going to push in the direction of which we...

Tuck Jump Assessment

Multifidus Training

Now we're going to work on teaching her how to feel that multifidus contraction first of all reflexively, and then ultimately we want her to feel it volitionally. But this is kind of the first step. So what I'm going to have her do is I'm going to have you take this hand and bring it and find...

Lateral March agility speed

Hey everyone. Today we're going to be discussing lateral speed and agility training. And in this video we're going to cover a lateral march. So we’ll instruct our athlete to assume the starting position going through a march getting comfortable with that. So marching. And on our signal...

Diaphragmatic Breathing - On Back breathing

For diaphragmatic breathing, go ahead and put one hand on your chest and one hand on your stomach and take a deep breath in. We want all the movement to be coming from the stomach, so your hand on your chest should be staying nice and still, while the one on your...

Isometric Shoulder Internal Rotation internal rotation shoulder

For internal rotation isometric, go ahead and place a towel roll underneath your arm and stand with your shoulder blades down and back. And with your elbow at 90 degrees, go ahead and push into the doorframe for 10s while maintaining that really good posture. And then repeat.