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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^speed can be coached and it is.

My son plays lacrosse and wanted to move from midi to attack. Coach told him he had to increase his speed before the next season started.

He used a 50M timed base as his baseline and worked to improve that.

He ran sprints uphill
He ran weighted sprints
Ran suicides
Ladder drills
High knees...ect

He is now a starter attack.[/quote]

and he was in the growing stages.  every kid is going to get faster, not every kid is going to be fast.  [/quote]

I think that genetics matter less than most people think for younger kids.  I find that training, coaching and a willingness to be slightly uncomfortable matter more.  Certainly for elementary kids, it is often much more about whether the kid has actually TRIED to run full out (a surprising number of athletic kids have never _really_ tried to run full out, and when they get out of breath they think they need to slow down).  That and their running form.

One year I coached some 5th and 6th grade runners.  A mix fairly in-shape distance types who were slow sprinters and several travel soccer players who were in shape and much faster sprinters.  All of them did a mile time trail at between 6:10 and 7:00 at the start of the season.  We did conditioning for a couple of weeks, then started doing strides after our runs, then started doing hill sprints.  After a couple of weeks of strides and some hills, suddenly many of the "slow" kids were keeping up with the travel soccer kids.  Strides (starting slow, accelerating to a sprint then decelerating --- all in about 100 M) in particular helped them relax into running fast and realize that it was fun.  The kids LOVED those and wanted to do them after every workout --- even after 5 mile runs.

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