Athletes Acceleration's Sports Training Podcast

Underground Secrets to Faster Running's own Coach Barry Ross continues his discussion on how your athletes can run faster with Athletes Acceleration's Speed Expert Latif Thomas.

You will also discover:

• What to do before you begin to buy into any coach’s training
concepts
• The training techniques Barry used with 200 meter National Record
Holder Allyson Felix
• How to establish a 1 Rep Max for athletes who have never lifted before
• The secret to improving muscle density
• The ideal number of days per week to strength train
• Why athletes should lift before performing speed work
• Where to get more information and content from Barry Ross

To learn more about Barry Ross and his new book click the link below:

Underground Secrets to Faster Running

Speed Coach Barry Ross returns to speak about his secrets to faster running and other speed training tips.

Barry Ross also discusses:

• How to determine the ideal number of repetitions for any workout
• The real reason muscles fatigue and athletes slow down after sustained
sprint efforts
• Uncover the secret algorhythm that instantly takes all the guesswork
out of program design
• Why athletes never need to do more than 20 total reps for any weight
training workout
• When and how to integrate interval workouts into training
• Do ‘prehab’ exercises and training really make a difference?
• Why a ‘minimalist’ approach to training maximizes results

Discover more of coach Barry Ross's tips, techniques and methods to developing faster athletes:

Underground Secrets to Faster Running

Underground Secrets to Faster Running creator Barry Ross is interviewed by Athletes' Acceleration Inc. Latif Thomas. They discuss:

• The most effective way to train soccer (and similar sport/s) athletes
• Whether or not strength training will benefit ‘endurance’ based
athletes
• Why coaches should spend more time in the weight room and less time
conducting running workouts
• Does lifting weights stunt growth in young athletes?
• How to effectively coach large groups of athletes in the weight room
• How to periodize strength training
• Why the deadlift is the only lower body lift required for optimal speed
gains
• The secret to improving deceleration and the ability to quickly change
directions
• How to incorporate plyometric training into your speed and strength
training program

To learn more about Barry Ross and his new book click the link below:

Underground Secrets to Faster Running

Underground Secrets to Faster Running author Barry Ross is interrogated by Athletes Acceleration's Latif Thomas.

Barry Ross discusses:

• The #1 secret to revolutionizing the speed training industry
• Why most coaches are using ‘purposeless training’
• Exactly why coaching running technique doesn’t make sense
• How the body naturally adapts to any external stimulus
• Understanding why Mass Specific Force is the key to faster running
• Why 15 minutes of walking is all the ‘conditioning’ an athlete
needs
• How to drastically improve in the 400m – never running further than
70 meters
• Common myths about the impact of ‘aerobic conditioning’ on
performance

To learn more about Barry Ross and his new book click the link below:

Underground Secrets to Faster Running

Patrick Beith and Latif Thomas from Athletes Acceleration discuss sprint training and speed development.

Here are other topics discussed:

• How to get athletes to buy into their training
• Teaching the ‘skill’ of sprinting
• The importance of ‘goal setting’ throughout the athletic season
• What you don’t know about your athletes can hurt you
• The magic of ‘accountability’
• What Patrick learned interning for Mike Boyle
• Don’t be afraid to admit you were wrong
• Why arguing with your colleagues can make you a better coach

For more speed training information check out the best selling speed development product available at:

Complete Speed Training

Speed experts Patrick Beith and Latif Thomas discuss speed training techniques and:

• Factors that adversely affect athletic performance
• Your athlete will not be the next Tiger Woods!
• 2 specific things coaches are doing wrong when training young athletes
– and how to fix it
• ‘Conditioning’ redefined
• The most critical skill for all athletes to develop
• What is true ‘speed development’?
• Why speed must be developed year round
• Coaching the different ‘phases’ of sprinting
• Case Study of a State Champion sprinter

For more speed training information check out the best selling speed development product available at:

Complete Speed Training

Patrick Beith and Latif Thomas from Athletes Acceleration discuss speed training and athletic development.

• The current State of the Athletic development industry
• How to develop an effective training philosophy of your own
• When it is OK to ignore the advice of ‘expert coaches’
• How coaching is both an art and a science
• Coaching mistakes are part of the process?
• The difference between ‘Speed development’ and ‘Athletic
development’
• The problem with living in a ‘Results Now’ society
• How to turn your athletes into ‘Assistant Coaches’
• The different ways we underestimate our young athletes
• When athletes should start ‘specializing’

For more speed training information check out the best selling speed development product available at:

Complete Speed Training

Brian Grasso from Developing Athletics and Internation Youth Conditioning Association, IYCA, discusses his thoughts on training youth athletes with Latif Thomas from Athletes Acceleration.

- The "Complex Training" concept
- The advantages of Brian Grasso's training methods
- Principle-based versus merit-based training
- Injury resistance
- The "Athlete Development System"
- The "Function Movement Screen"

International Youth Conditioning Association President Brian Grasso explains how to train kids (interview by Athletes Acceleration's Latif Thomas)

- More on "Guided Discovery" for skill development
- Loss of motor skills in modern youth
- Negative aspects of excessive competition
- The creation of "bad" rules to compensate for underdeveloped skills
- Flexibility and power output - connected?
- The symbiosis of shoulders and hips
- Static versus dynamic stretching
- Which to train first - strength or technique?
- Impact of training order on the central nervous system

Brian Grasso from the International Youth Conditioning Association - IYCA - is interviewed by Athletes Acceleration's Latif Thomas

- Basing annual programs on four-month blocks
- Why less training often produces more results
- Obesity in modern youth
- Treating obesity for the short and long term
- The need for fun in sport, for long-term benefits
- Target heartrate and performance goal myths
- The "Play is the way" fitness and training model

For more information on Youth Conditioning go to:

http://www.athletesacceleration.com/youtharticles.html