Speed Training

In sports today, if you don’t have the speed to compete at a high level, you will get left behind. At Achieve Optimal Performance we are here to bring out the best in you. Here you will find tools that will allow you to reach your potential. Speed can be taught and improved, but it is up to you whether or not you will improve.

Most people involved in sports understand that the faster you are the more competitive you will be. So we all go out and perform drills that we believe will be the best thing for us, or what someone else did and got results from without understanding what this does for that individual. Every sport calls for a slight difference in programming but all have similar concepts and mechanics. Without the proper mechanics, your road to success will be a much more difficult one to achieve.

Running form has many variations and some more beneficial than others. We have all heard lift your knees up, lean your body forward, move your arms with your legs, but how should this be done to give us the best results? Can we actually be hurting ourselves with the form we have been taught or passed down from one source to another? We hope to shed some light on this so that you have the tools that will set you up for success. Running is something we all do, but we don’t all run for success.

Running is also a skill that needs to be practiced often. We need to put in several thousands of hours in order to make this a natural, subconcious event. Not only do we need to put in this level of practice, but we have to do this properly in order to improve. We don’t have to be perfect, but we have to be excellent in our efforts and intentions, otherwise we may be wasting our time.