GET SPEED TRAINING PROGRAM

The thing that stands out THE MOST in any game of footy at any level is sprinting speed - it's that crystal clear what that player can do it's ridiculous.

Physically they have 1 specific trait over every single player on the ground and psychologically they have a huge edge as those playing on them are more worried about about being exposed themselves and shift into a defensive mindset.

Next to the Yo-Yo endurance test, the 20m speed test is the most looked at by AFL recruiters.

Having more speed gives you more space which gives you more time to find and make the right decision on top of having more time under no pressure to make the right technical choice (kick, handball etc).

Clearly the snowball effect can have massive implications.

So why do 99.9% of local/amateur football teams not bother training max speed in an effort to try and increase it?

You know what?

Most local/amateur footballers are actually faster then they "are" because we're rarely, if ever, in the correct physical state to be able to reach our potential max velocity speed from residual fatigue from the way we train at team training.

With such a focus on doing endless running, whether it's on it's own or in ball drills, fatigue is constantly present in our body and mind and max speed can only be expressed in a non-fatigued state.

If you ever hit up a track coach and do a sprint focused session, you'll do 10 - 20 sets of 5 - 6secs and stand around the rest of the time.

In a 1 hour session that's 2 - 3mins work and 57mins rest.

The easiest thing to train in my book.

With the pre-season break next week where you can control all physical and psychological fatigue, now is your chance to train max speed, train it properly and reap the benefits.

Here's how.

WARM UP

No need to get too technical here for now, we just need to get your central nervous system used to sprinting and sprinting fast so 3 - 5 gradual speed runsover 20 - 30m or so will do the trick but if you wanna throw in some high knees and butt kicks then feel free but those exercises don't really do anything for speed or prehab but you'll have done them in the past and will gravitate to doing them so no stress whether you do or not.

So something like 50, 65, 80, 90% then start the sessions below

SESSION 1...

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