Incoming baseball players at Clemson University may wonder for a moment if they showed up to the gym at the wrong time for their strength & conditioning sessions. Rick Franzblau opens the off-season training with resisted sprint load-velocity profiling, which points the way towards regular sprint training throughout the fall. Sprint mechanics have an increasingly […]
Joseph Coyne is the Physical Preparation Coach with the Chinese Athletics Association. He joined the Just Fly Performance podcast for a wide-ranging and detailed discussion on training sprinters and jumpers, going back to his time working with Randy Huntington. Towards the end of the show, the conversation turned to overspeed sprinting. Coyne talked about how […]
1080 Motion recently hosted their annual Summit in Gothenburg, Sweden. Attendees from across Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Asia participated in lectures and demonstrations from coaches and clinicians pushing the limits of sports science with 1080. J-B Morin and Cameron Josse presented on their research and training with resisted sprinting […]
The kinetics of a 20-meter sprint may tell a coach more about an athlete’s ability than just their speed. Drs. Jeremy Townsend and Gerald Mangine used the 1080 Sprint to parse a 20-meter sprint and correlate the power, force and velocity to other assessment exercises with collegiate basketball players. Selecting exercises that efficiently and faithfully […]
Justin Roethlingshoefer used the 1080 Sprint to merge testing and training for on-ice and dry-land work at The Hockey Summit. The data from jump and sprint testing tracked the players’ progression across the six-week camp, with insight at the day-to-day level. Roethlingshoefer performed on-ice testing with the 1080 Sprint every two weeks, with protocols for […]
Tennis players must execute shots while decelerating as part of a change of direction. Many methods of testing and training change of direction fall short of accurately capturing tennis’ specific demands. Most methods of testing and training change of direction (CoD) have two significant short-comings. First, they include a disproportionate amount of linear running. A […]
