{"id":2863,"date":"2017-04-18T17:30:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T21:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/?p=2863"},"modified":"2017-04-24T16:07:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T20:07:01","slug":"speed-drills-for-pro-sports-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/blog-post\/speed-drills-for-pro-sports-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed Drills for Pro Sports &#8211; Part 1 (of 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since my last few articles, \u201cTo Squat or to Power Clean, That Is the Question\u201d and \u201cHow to Train the 40-Yard Dash in the Weight Room \u2013 Part One &amp; Part Two\u201d I have had tremendous positive feedback. With this in mind, I have had a few people email me regarding what type of speed drills I would choose for college and professional football players (American football).\u00a0 If people wish, I can write about speed work and demands for football, aka soccer, in an upcoming article.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the purpose: what speed drills do I like to use with my college and pro football players?<\/p>\n<p>To start, I have all my athletes perform a proper dynamic warm-up, which includes many drills, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Walking A\u2019s<\/li>\n<li>Marching A\u2019s<\/li>\n<li>B\u2019s<\/li>\n<li>Plus the conventional drills we all use as track coaches<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am going to assume that these athletes know many of the basic drills mentioned, so I won\u2019t spend much focus on this.\u00a0 Here is the catch: I will watch an athlete, and if there are mechanical issues, then we will focus on a drill or drills SPECIFIC to that athlete.\u00a0 The purpose of this is to reinforce a good habit and correct the issue(s).\u00a0 I learned a long time ago from good coaches that anyone can teach the X and O\u2019s, but the good coaches can see and make adjustments in making the athlete better.<\/p>\n<p>So, we at SST do not really spend much time with so-called drills to improve performance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where do I differ with my athletes?<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong><em>Know your position!<\/em><\/strong> For example, I don\u2019t waste my time doing repetitive 100-meter sprints with O linemen. I have seen this numerous times with coaches and just shake my head. What is the purpose of 300-lb men running 100 meters? When do they ever do this in the game?\u00a0 The question I then get is do we need to condition them? No! These guys are paid to have a fight in a phone booth. Conditioning drills should be more functional, such as tire flipping and pushing cars!<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Top-end speed:<\/em><\/strong> Athletes such as wide receivers and running backs focus on top-end speed. Development. I do not waste time with linemen with this training method- we may spend one training block a year on long runs over 40 yards and that\u2019s it!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my last few articles, \u201cTo Squat or to Power Clean, That Is the Question\u201d and \u201cHow to Train the 40-Yard Dash in the Weight Room \u2013 Part One &amp; Part Two\u201d I have had tremendous positive feedback. With this in mind, I have had a few people email me regarding what type of speed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/blog-post\/speed-drills-for-pro-sports-part-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speed Drills for Pro Sports &#8211; Part 1 (of 3)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2863"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2871,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions\/2871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}