Training Kids For Speed Ebook

Index of Contents

• Training Session Ideas - Over 10 A4 pages of ideas for training sessions. The section also contains guidelines for designing appropriate sessions to be more effective at improving technique and performance both long term and short term.
• The New Biomechanics of Sprinting
• The Nervous system is quite limited in its capacity to recover from certain types of stresses. This is a very important area to understand when aiming to produce and train for high speeds.
• Strength Development
• Sprinting & the Nervous system
• Power Development
• Improvement of Technique
• Important guidelines in the development of improved technique. Making sure there is technical improvement is the prime indicator of what is good coaching and what is not.
• How can strength best be developed in Kids?
• How can athletes develop endurance without decreasing speed. What is good long-term? What is bad practise?
• Endurance Development
• Any athlete that wants to accelerate fast and have a higher maximium speed will need to be able to develop more power. What can be done to improve power?
• A detailed description of the latest technique of Sprinting that is displayed by Athletes like Marion Jones and Maurice Greene. Also discussion of how a knowledge of this can be applied to any developing athlete.