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Anonymous wrote:Run for a serious AAU track club. Help from one of these dudes is likely to be incrementally helpful but there's nothing like competing against track athletes to get your speed up.

Our local track club does not want club soccer players. I tried that route. They want “committed” athletes even if we were willing to pay full cost but attend only 1-2x per week.

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Anonymous wrote:Run for a serious AAU track club. Help from one of these dudes is likely to be incrementally helpful but there's nothing like competing against track athletes to get your speed up.

Our local track club does not want club soccer players. I tried that route. They want “committed” athletes even if we were willing to pay full cost but attend only 1-2x per week.

Anonymous wrote:Run for a serious AAU track club. Help from one of these dudes is likely to be incrementally helpful but there's nothing like competing against track athletes to get your speed up.

Anonymous wrote:Chris Paul. Works with many mlsnext and ecnl players.

https://domainfitnessmd.com/trainers/chris-paul/

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Anonymous wrote:Speed isn't really something you teach. Speed is very dependent on puberty and genetics -- family of Olympic runners & soccer players.

Yeah...no.

There is a max genetic ceiling. Most of us will ever reach that ceiling because people will listen to stupid statements above.

OP, do 3-5 speed sessions and get the person to teach your kids all of the essential drills of the Atomic Workout (https://youtu.be/o6Rdd2oaGiU?si=_0gq5R1Zi10sEJsq). You can do the Atomic workout before every practice and it is an easy and cheap way to get in work on your top-end spend. Add in 5-10-5 shuffles, plyo's and hill running in other areas, and you will have an efficient and not expensive way to develop your kids speed. Also learn about acceleration, deceleration and change of direction. In all honesty, these are developed by playing tag in the backyard but if you prefer to throw the money at somebody, do you. For hill running, start once a week with 4-5 reps and then increase reps each week. Next week 5-6 reps and then you simply keep building. One of the fast kids I have seen locally, Kristian Fletcher, was built on years of hill repeats and plyo's, not genetics.

I think what many of these posters are trying to help you avoid is the endless loop of private speed training with poor results. There are no instant results. It takes consistency and time. A trainer can help solidify mechanics but then the real work comes over a period of 3+ months.

Are you a licensed experienced speed performance coach with a portfolio of athletes you've developed who are performing at the highest levels of their sports in strong part due to your training?

Nope. Just have access to the top players in this area and learned directly from them and the coaches who trained them.

Also have an Olympic qualifying track athlete in the family on a D1 track scholarship who never had any of the fancy training you all are pontificating and comes from my genetic pool which is not elite.

You don’t need a degrees to watch kids play tag and see how it can transfer to speed and agility.

Nike and the entire U.S. establishment has attempted to mirror the Africans but it is very difficult to replicating kids running to school due to necessity daily from an early age which changes their physical makeup via adaption.

And…there is a 98% chance my kid is faster than your at the same age and better on the pitch. Again, not genetics. Compounding results.

I bounced it to help OP out and will back out and let you spend your time debates about results your kids are not getting.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Speed isn't really something you teach. Speed is very dependent on puberty and genetics -- family of Olympic runners & soccer players.

Yeah...no.

There is a max genetic ceiling. Most of us will ever reach that ceiling because people will listen to stupid statements above.

OP, do 3-5 speed sessions and get the person to teach your kids all of the essential drills of the Atomic Workout (https://youtu.be/o6Rdd2oaGiU?si=_0gq5R1Zi10sEJsq). You can do the Atomic workout before every practice and it is an easy and cheap way to get in work on your top-end spend. Add in 5-10-5 shuffles, plyo's and hill running in other areas, and you will have an efficient and not expensive way to develop your kids speed. Also learn about acceleration, deceleration and change of direction. In all honesty, these are developed by playing tag in the backyard but if you prefer to throw the money at somebody, do you. For hill running, start once a week with 4-5 reps and then increase reps each week. Next week 5-6 reps and then you simply keep building. One of the fast kids I have seen locally, Kristian Fletcher, was built on years of hill repeats and plyo's, not genetics.

I think what many of these posters are trying to help you avoid is the endless loop of private speed training with poor results. There are no instant results. It takes consistency and time. A trainer can help solidify mechanics but then the real work comes over a period of 3+ months.

Are you a licensed experienced speed performance coach with a portfolio of athletes you've developed who are performing at the highest levels of their sports in strong part due to your training?

Nope. Just have access to the top players in this area and learned directly from them and the coaches who trained them.

Also have an Olympic qualifying track athlete in the family on a D1 track scholarship who never had any of the fancy training you all are pontificating and comes from my genetic pool which is not elite.

You don’t need a degrees to watch kids play tag and see how it can transfer to speed and agility.

Nike and the entire U.S. establishment has attempted to mirror the Africans but it is very difficult to replicating kids running to school due to necessity daily from an early age which changes their physical makeup via adaption.

And…there is a 98% chance my kid is faster than your at the same age and better on the pitch. Again, not genetics. Compounding results.

I bounced it to help OP out and will back out and let you spend your time debates about results your kids are not getting.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Speed isn't really something you teach. Speed is very dependent on puberty and genetics -- family of Olympic runners & soccer players.

Yeah...no.

There is a max genetic ceiling. Most of us will ever reach that ceiling because people will listen to stupid statements above.

OP, do 3-5 speed sessions and get the person to teach your kids all of the essential drills of the Atomic Workout (https://youtu.be/o6Rdd2oaGiU?si=_0gq5R1Zi10sEJsq). You can do the Atomic workout before every practice and it is an easy and cheap way to get in work on your top-end spend. Add in 5-10-5 shuffles, plyo's and hill running in other areas, and you will have an efficient and not expensive way to develop your kids speed. Also learn about acceleration, deceleration and change of direction. In all honesty, these are developed by playing tag in the backyard but if you prefer to throw the money at somebody, do you. For hill running, start once a week with 4-5 reps and then increase reps each week. Next week 5-6 reps and then you simply keep building. One of the fast kids I have seen locally, Kristian Fletcher, was built on years of hill repeats and plyo's, not genetics.

I think what many of these posters are trying to help you avoid is the endless loop of private speed training with poor results. There are no instant results. It takes consistency and time. A trainer can help solidify mechanics but then the real work comes over a period of 3+ months.

Are you a licensed experienced speed performance coach with a portfolio of athletes you've developed who are performing at the highest levels of their sports in strong part due to your training?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Speed isn't really something you teach. Speed is very dependent on puberty and genetics -- family of Olympic runners & soccer players.

Yeah...no.

There is a max genetic ceiling. Most of us will ever reach that ceiling because people will listen to stupid statements above.

OP, do 3-5 speed sessions and get the person to teach your kids all of the essential drills of the Atomic Workout (https://youtu.be/o6Rdd2oaGiU?si=_0gq5R1Zi10sEJsq). You can do the Atomic workout before every practice and it is an easy and cheap way to get in work on your top-end spend. Add in 5-10-5 shuffles, plyo's and hill running in other areas, and you will have an efficient and not expensive way to develop your kids speed. Also learn about acceleration, deceleration and change of direction. In all honesty, these are developed by playing tag in the backyard but if you prefer to throw the money at somebody, do you. For hill running, start once a week with 4-5 reps and then increase reps each week. Next week 5-6 reps and then you simply keep building. One of the fast kids I have seen locally, Kristian Fletcher, was built on years of hill repeats and plyo's, not genetics.

I think what many of these posters are trying to help you avoid is the endless loop of private speed training with poor results. There are no instant results. It takes consistency and time. A trainer can help solidify mechanics but then the real work comes over a period of 3+ months.