Breaking a 40yd sprint into segments can help tell a story of performance capability. The dynamics of each 10yd segment provide a road map for training areas to improve those segments.
Two metrics we observe for speed: max ratio of force (RFmax) & decrease in ratio of force (DRF). Paired w/ video analysis, they help paint a picture of how force is applied at different speeds, giving insight into individualizing training to enhance acceleration performance.
What is “sports science”? To me, it’s committing simply & solely to improvement of game performance, analyzing the relationships of various actions/metrics to game outcomes, & using cross-domain thinking/alignment to foster a multidisciplinary framework for holistic analysis.
Tactical periodization = holistic weekly design blending physical, mental, technical, tactical prep in team sport; concentrate similar elements into each day to help manage stress & recovery leading to game day. Could it work in college football? One possible framework👇
Some cues that I have used when coaching linear sprinting as athletes approach top speed. Typically, goals are to help w/ understanding proper frontside lift & how to contact the ground. The internal vs. external cues provided are based on finding what resonates w/ each athlete.
When approaching top speed, thigh separation entering the touch down phase can be a key technical landmark to determine efficiency of shapes & force application. When inefficient, risk of injury may exponentially increase. Posture, rhythm, & timing are key.
I love this simple model from Siff & Verkhoshansky. In team sport, there are various underlying factors associated with “speed”, not the least of which include perceptual-cognitive aspects of reaction time, decision-making speed, & effective movement selection.
Technical changes in mid-acceleration mechanics for 3 players after 3 weeks of training. Goal was to reduce excessive backside swing (kickback) & improve overall posture w/ technical drills in conjunction w/ individualized acceleration development.
Simple & effective coordination exercise to develop power through the ankle while challenging timing of thigh switching & maintaining neutral pelvic posture. Load here = 95lbs; box height = 6in; 3x5 each leg.
@mcfadden_micah
Incredibly grateful to be starting my PhD journey with
@jb_morin
as primary supervisor &
@KenClarkSpeed
@IUCoachWellman
as co-supervisors! Very excited for the research we will conduct & the lessons we will learn along the way.
Combining measurable data w/ observational analysis helps us form a clearer path to enhance speed performance. Kinetic profiling is vital, but kinematic analysis of the shapes that lead to these metrics are equally important for practicality of coaching.
Physical qualities are complex, much like the athletes who display them. They are interdependent, where interactions can be numerous, frequent, fluctuating, & unpredictable. A small change in 1 area can dramatically change another. Complex issues require complex thinking.
Insights gained from sprint F-V profiling our players. 2 players w/nearly exact same 20m sprint time, yet very different profiles suggesting different training needs. Valuable assessment for individualizing our speed performance program.
@IndianaFootball
Game speed is complex & based on far more than sprinting or COD speed. Yes, being able to run fast, cut on a dime, & exhibit power are important. But, the perceptual-cognitive aspects are equally so. Brain & body must both be developed. A great concept here from
@Fergus_Connolly
Article from earlier this year for
@simplifaster
on developing top speed sprinting in team sport athletes. Improving speed is imperative, but doing so in safe & efficient ways is vital.
#IUFB
#LEO
#SaveTheHamstrings
2 athletes reach same velocity at 20m but 1 has a faster 20m time. Why? Athlete A has ⬆️ initial accel at the start, reaching ⬆️ velocity @ 5m. If going to 30m, Athlete B would likely start to separate. But for players that cover short distances, initial accel is crucial.
Very happy that
@MovementMiyagi
will be hosting another Sport Movement Skill Conference this year. I'm grateful to participate as a presenter but even more grateful to hear from the amazing line-up of other speakers.
#SMSC2020
#WeAreTheMovement
So incredibly grateful to
@CoachAllenIU
&
@IUCoachWellman
for my time w/
@IndianaFootball
as I move forward to the next stage of my career. To all the players, coaches, & staff, thank you for making me better in every way. I love you all.
#LEO
Where should we focus attention when coaching? In this model, coaching focus can be on enhancing motor potential through practicing biomechanical principles (attractors), while guiding athletes to explore individual movement solutions to solidify technical mastery (fluctuations)
Using the Physical, Psychological, Technical & Tactical domains as a basic framework to analyze in-game deficiencies. Goal is identifying & communicating limiting factors w/ cross-domain data collection & formulating specific intervention protocols throughout the organization
A program that works for a player now may not work for that player next year. Routine assessment across multiple domains help us understand current strengths, compensations & limiting factors of individual in-game performance to better design training interventions going forward.
Incredibly proud of the toughness & resiliency that our players showed today. So grateful to
@CoachAllenIU
promoting a culture of leading with love. No matter if a moment is up or down, we stand together & fight together. Blessed to be a part of
@IndianaFootball
.
#LEO
As fall camp begins, I’m reminded of the importance of testing/monitoring w/ subj & obj markers where possible to balance preparedness (long term adaptations) & readiness (current functional state of various physiological systems) to help enhance performance potential each day
Fascinated by the interplay of psycho-physical development & techno-tactical learning. Progress in sport is nonlinear, dictated not just by physical elements but also game sense at various organizational levels - playing a position, playing as a unit & playing as a team.
Slides are ready for next week's
@ALTIS
Virtual ACP! Very excited & grateful to present again at such a quality event. Looking forward to taking notes from all other presenters & having roundtable discussions!
Big mistakes I’ve made w/ FV profiling! 1) Thinking 20m sprint test is valid. Doesn’t get player close enough to Max V, so #’s will be off. 2) Misusing spreadsheet from
@jb_morin
. See photos! Publishing valid ranges for 🏈 will be part of PhD work.
Starting the process of creating various visualizations for 🏈 sprint FV profiles. Nice start to the PhD project w/ a great set of kinetic & kinematic data to review after preliminary recordings w/
@jb_morin
&
@KenClarkSpeed
. Special thx to
@jgreenshields
for his help w/ these!
Words can’t express the gratitude I feel for having had the opportunity to speak & take part in one of the best educational experiences in our industry. Thank YOU
@ALTISEdu
& all those who attended this week’s ACP. We learn better together!
HUGE thank you to
@CoachJosse
for spending time with us at the
@ALTIS
ACP and sharing his thoughts on Football Speed Development & Monitoring 🏈
#ThorneACP
Loved this opportunity to speak w/ one of the best coaches in sports performance! I've followed
@leetaft
for many years & am very grateful to have been on his podcast talking about my transition to
@IndianaFootball
, speed training, & much more.
Excellent presentation from
@lahti_johan
discussing hamstring injuries through various perspectives & showing practical strategies of mitigation through multiple layers of preparation.
Context matters when reviewing GPS data. Two activities may show same numbers, but can induce different stressors centrally and/or peripherally. Collecting qualitative information about the nature of the work w/ observational notes can help tell the full story.
Honored to be featured in such a massive resource on the topic of coaching team sport speed. This course is densely packed w/ thought-provoking material as it relates to merging training content & sport context. I know I will continue to reference it for the rest of my career!
Like all of our Courses, it mixes text and video, is heavily referenced, and features many sport performance experts from all around the world.
Like the
@ALTIS
Performance Therapy Course, it features three ‘books’ - in this case, the WHAT, WHY, and HOW of speed in team sport.
Really enjoyed the
#coachesvscovid19
Cam Josse presentation on speed development for team-sport athletes. Cam has a great understanding of the importance of sprinting technique in team-sports, and presents it really well!
From The Process Level 3: Manipulating 2 simple variables (size of playing area & number of players involved) in SSGs or practice situations will result in different physical stressors. Consideration of this is important in design & monitoring of representative activities
A great weekend spent w/ great people! Thank you to the fellow presenters for your collective influence & positive impact on our industry. A very special thank you to
@CoachSleeve
& staff for making the event possible!
The Process Level 3 & 4 now available! The series is now complete & I’m so grateful to
@Fergus_Connolly
for allowing me to be a part of this project. Many lessons learned along the way, many more left to learn.
Huge thank you to
@jb_morin
for making my recent trip to France &
@Univ_St_Etienne
,
@LIBM_lab
a wonderful learning experience. Great conversations on progressing PhD projects & enjoyed seeing some other work being done at the lab. Can’t wait to return next year!
Thank you for the kind words! We have a fantastic team in place at
@IndianaFootball
under
@CoachAllenIU
and the rest of our performance staff that
@IUCoachWellman
has put together. We are very excited to get to work!
Honored to be included among these first class presenters at the upcoming
@AthletesAccel
Complete Football Performance Summit. Register today via the link below👇🏼
Now on Sportsmith…
Speed for team sports: moving past track & field
@IUCoachJosse
“We can certainly learn great lessons from track & field, but problems arise when team sport coaches lose sight of their own goal: helping players play the game faster”
Beyond grateful to have an invitation to speak at CVASPS, the first seminar I ever attended as a student of sports performance. Thank you
@CVASPS
for all that this event has done for me for over the past 10+ years of learning!
“A team of smart, prepared players does not run the most. Rather, these players force opponents to run more and conserve their energy for when it really counts.”
@IUCoachJosse
🔝🔝🔝
Thank you
@ALTIS
for the opportunity to contribute to the ACP program & educational content. Always very grateful to be mentioned alongside
@KenClarkSpeed
! Looking forward to more collaborations ahead.
Check out this page that includes an awesome video highlighting presentations from
@KenClarkSpeed
&
@IUCoachJosse
previously given at the Virtual ACP (now named ALTIS Connect!
If you are interested in speed in team sports, it is well worth a watch!
The Process complete series available as a bundle from Ultimate Athlete Concepts. All 4 books together in one set. Thanks to
@Fergus_Connolly
& Yosef Johnson for making it all possible!
Looking forward to sharing some of our thoughts & approaches to utilizing the
#1080sprint
in our performance monitoring, training, & return to play strategies! Thank you
@1080motion
for the opportunity to present in this wonderful webinar series.
New "Strength in Numbers" Live Webinar with Athletic Performance Coach
@IUCoachJosse
Indiana University Collegiate Football. February 24th, 1 pm Central Standard Time. Free registration
#MakeSpeedHappen
Thank you
@JustFlySports
for having me back on the show! Good discussion on position-specific sprint training for 🏈, lifting for speed, appreciating the CNS & more.
I consider myself extremely blessed to have
@jb_morin
as a mentor, supervisor, colleague & friend. IMO, one of the best in the world for researching better ways to train for performance. I can’t wait to dive into this course!
We have partnered with world-leading expert
@jb_morin
to deliver this NEW online course on assessing and training sprint acceleration.
✅ Cutting edge information
✅ Athlete demonstrations
✅ Coaching sessions
✅ Lifetime access
Completely blown away by the quality of information compiled in this
@ALTIS
Virtual ACP Bundle! All the presenters knocked it out of the park. Excited to discuss all the info with
@IUCoachWellman
,
@IUCoachRemmes
& the rest of our staff!
This week on the Pacey Performance Podcast...
@IUCoachJosse
talks...
• Sprint profiling & methods Cam uses
• Non field-based profiling
• Using constraints versus cueing
• Speed training with large groups
• Programming speed training for large athletes
Listen via links 👇🏼
The first MasterMIND will take place on Sunday 26th July at 6pm (BST) / 1pm (EST) with the focus on speed training for team sports.
I have had 7 years of asking the questions and directing the conversation, now it’s your turn!
To me, the best reward as a coach is the bond we forge with our athletes. It was great to hear Rhett Ellison's words about his relationship with
@IUCoachWellman
at NYG. I'm grateful to be a part of Coach Wellman's staff at
@IndianaFootball
#LEO
#iufb
1. He has a ton of admiration for
@iucoachwellman
& the support he received from him during his time at NYG. Rhett was very candid about his experiences, w/S&C and the role/impact of played over the years...as well as w/the tactical/position coaches....
Diving into part 1 of this course I can already say this is a big time resource for all in sports performance! It’s FAR more inclusive & insightful than I could have imagined & so grateful to
@alex_natera
for his work on this. More tools in the toolbox!
@RUGBY_STR_COACH
Thanks, Keir. The successes so far this season are really due to the impact of an amazing head coach, wonderful coaching staff, players who are willing to do the work to take steps forward, & everyone else in the building!
@spikesonly
@davidmaris958
@Coach_Rose_18
@kebbat
Here is the excerpt & table directly from the book. Profiling & segment times were done w/
@MySprintApp
. Focus of training was to prep for 40yd dash testing, for context. Agree that accel is imperative for linebacker in-game performance & likely more influential than max speed
@EatSleepTrain_
@lahti_johan
@coachrgrubbs
@jb_morin
@KenClarkSpeed
@les7spellman
If context = performance, clear that “safe” tech is not required. Context = longevity is different discussion. Yet training is fuzzy. Some butt kick entire career w/ no ham issues, others have good tech w/ ton of issues! But IMO, I will coach towards shapes on left as “insurance”
Terrific job on this project
@jordanbo5
&
@Nick__DiMarco
! Very practical, backed by research & filled w/ video examples. As someone who always aims for “no stone left unturned” in the team sport training process, I highly recommend this resource.
THE BOOK IS HERE!
Reverse Engineering Sport: The 8 Vector System
Available Now! (Link in Bio)
Our goal is to share with you the training methods we use to enhance sports performance. We hope that many coaches and athletes will benefit from the book.
Very grateful to
@RUGBY_STR_COACH
for the opportunity to contribute to this Fundamentals course with modules devoted to Speed & Agility Training in Team Sports. The other contributors did a fantastic job & I will be studying the course for a long time!
@RUGBY_STR_COACH
@MattCrossNZ
@missEmitche11
Personally, I think velocity at a given distance has great practical value. Using the RB example again, velocity at 10-15yds likely a more useful KPI for the position than Vmax. Or some measure of rate of accel like you said. More conducive to position demands IMO
Really enjoyed this conversation w/
@coach_j_lima
on
@StrCoachNetwork
podcast talking transition from private sector to college football & training speed in a game-based context
Thank you to all the folks at
@EMERGENTMVMT
for the amazing SMSC event they put on every year. I was grateful to return as a speaker this year but even more grateful to learn from the other presenters!
So grateful to
@TomDosSantos91
&
@PaulAJonesUoS
for the opportunity to contribute to this resource! I can’t wait to get a copy & learn from some of the top minds in multidirectional speed!
🆕Our new book, Multidirectional Speed in Sport: Research to Application, is now available for pre-order! 📖
@PaulAJonesUoS
🔗
🙏Amazing contributions related to COD, agility, decel, rehab, monitoring, sprinting, motor learning, LTAD & more!
Very much looking forward to this 2nd cohort! I was blown away by the depth of information in the first go around.
@alex_natera
has done an unbelievable job of organizing & compiling his educational sources & delivers useful practical application examples as well!
We are excited to announce that we are launching the 2nd cohort of our isometric strength training online course w/
@alex_natera
.
And this time it's also in Spanish!🇪🇸
•15+ hrs of content
•7 world leading experts
•15+ case studies
•Access to Q&A
Recent discussion w/
@SportsmithHQ
surrounding principles of speed training in the team sport context. Looking to explore this area more w/ upcoming PhD projects
Enjoyed this chat w/
@Matty_S2S
on the
@S2SFootball
podcast diving into performance aspects of the running back position & keeping context in mind for holistic player preparation.
@IndianaFootball
#LEO
@1080motion
We are excited to get our 1080 Sprint going with our
@IndianaFootball
players this summer! Plenty of high quality performance testing & individualized speed training to come.
@DL_Gregory23
@StuartMcMillan1
@IUCoachWellman
When utilizing linear sprinting in training, we aim for positions that satisfy biomechanical principles of effective acceleration, much like aiming for anchor points of stable patterns in a barbell squat or bench press. Game movements differ in context, which we keep in mind
@CoachWheel
@jb_morin
@les7spellman
@KenClarkSpeed
(1/2) Thanks Casey. Fast speeds occur all the time with large backside swing, especially in team sport. So, IMO optimal frontside lift less dire for speed but can reduce excessive strain. Too much backside at high speed throws off elastic rhythm, so hamstring can take a beating.
@RUGBY_STR_COACH
@missEmitche11
Good to also consider tactical context IMO. Ex. NFL running back who can hit 10+ m/s at 40yds but spends ~5 months in-season nearing that speed only a small handful of times or not at all. In game, a 10-15yd run is a great play, a 40yd run is typically very difficult to achieve