Not to knock any of the above but DVDs are, IMO, a better way to go (capture nuances of drills, if that’s part of what you are after). In addition, you will get over 10 training programs that reflect the methodology that I’ve successfully used with hundreds of athletes. Principles I used to help an athlete to an NCAA championship in the 55m dash in 2010 that I’ve been refining for almost another decade. He trains athletes from grassroots up to senior club competition level and has also worked with visually impaired and blind athletes in conjunction with Run England. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

As with the other books in this series it will change the way you currently think about your training regimen or reinforce what you know to be true from your own experience. His ideas of training for power, and having technique as an outgrowth of that power, was innovated during the time he was a coach but has gained momentum in sport as of 2015 this thinking has become the standard. The lessons I’ve gained as an athlete, coach and now podcaster and educator have all filtered into a product that I believe creates a platform for true, holistic thinking when sitting to build a speed program.I highly recommend Speed strength for all coaches, whether you regard yourself in the outdated S + C coach title, a technical coach, or a tactical coach. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. Håkan Andersson, Elite Sprint CoachI can really recommend Joel Smith’s new book “Speed Strength: A Comprehensive Guide to the Biomechanics and Training of Linear Speed.

The description of diet and physiology felt like it was placed in there just to make the book bigger. Book Sprints facilitates your experts to aggregate knowledge, turn it into clear information and publish it fast.

Written by Chris Husbands, 'Sprinting' is an essential guide for all athletes at the beginning or development stages of their sprint careers who are committed to running faster. It is a combination of shared knowledge of a number of Australia's best Sprint Coaches and also information gathered directly and indirectly from some of the coaches of the Worlds Elite Sprinters.

in the 200m dash versus their previous year before I started as their strength and conditioning coach (with some athletes improving much more). This book points out all the obvious things that all sprinters would know anyway, such as maintain low angle at start, point blocks to tangent of curve etc etc. Chris Husbands is a qualified UKA Athletics coach and masters athlete with Belgrave Harriers and runs his own personal training business. All Developing athletes need to learn and practise running properly so that they can run faster easier and avoid injury. com“Just wanted to give you a report on some great results I’ve gotten with several clients using your book.Making sure there is technical improvement is the prime indicator of what is good coaching and what is not. Many athletes possess high levels of skill in their sport but do not have the speed to pull away from the opposition. Reading Joel’s book has forced me to realise that these idiosyncrasies might be the very thing that makes them so fast in the first place.