Speed is a Skill and just like any other skill it can be taught, it can be developed, and it can be improved through a systematic and progressive training approach. There are four elements of multidirectional speed:
- Quickness
- Active Speed
- Reactive Speed
- Complex Speed
The Multidirectional Speed Training programme develops Quickness and Explosiveness, quick feet, good coordination, and the ability to rapidly change direction. We improve your Reactive and Active Speed, your footwork and how to accelerate and decelerate instantaneously to get away from your opponent and get to the ball first! This Speed training methodology has been tried, tested and proven at all levels of the game.
The work we do in the Speed Centre with footballers, rugby players and other sports includes neuromuscular development, running speed & explosiveness and is complemented with multi-directional training sessions with the ball. The combination of the Multidirectional Speed programme and the Sport Specific exercises are the best way for any athlete to get fast and stay fast.
PLYOMETRICS & FOOTWORK
The Plyometric & Footwork programme is designed to help you improve your Power, Quickness, coordination, stability, balance and awareness of your body through multidirectional drills and jumping protocols.
SPORT SPECIFIC TRAINING
Every Sport is different and we have developed specific training protocols for developing Speed, Acceleration and Quickness programmes for Sprinters, Middle and long distance runners, Footballers, Rugby Players and other multi-directional sports. The training Programmes are age specific, so youngsters would not be training at the same intensity as adults, and ability and fitness specific, so based on fitness and level
YOUNG ATHLETES
Most young athletes run by instinct and although very natural, they can pick-up bad habits that stay with them through the rest of their career.
If they are playing competitive sport then their Speed and Biomechanics can be affected by a number of factors, but the two most common factors are injury and growth rate. If the youngster has had a previous injury and has not gone through the correct rehabilitation, then even if they do not have pain, it will affect their biomechanics and their speed.
More importantly it stops them from improving and can lead to more serious injuries, which have curtailed many a promising athletic career.
The primary objective in our training of young athletes is to focus on the motor learning to train the correct Movement rather than the Muscle, it’s the movement that determines the function of the muscle, not the opposite.
We improve the biomechanical movements for youngsters in all sports- football, rugby, basketball, athletics – and all ages, by teaching the body and the mind the correct motor patterns and creating/developing Motor Engrams, which are permanent maps formed after repeating a movement or skill many times.
We then develop their Speed. Our Speed development programmes for young athletes starts from the age of 9 years old.
We also educate the coaches and the athletes on the best ways to stimulate the neuromuscular system to recruit and contract motor units simultaneously. This leads to the improvement of one of the most important of all components: QUICKNESS!
Stimulating the neuromuscular system to recruit and contract motor units simultaneously and by increasing the strength of the contraction.
If you are interested in receiving more detailed information on dates, times and costs e-mail us at run@runningschool.co.uk or call us anytime on + 44 (0) 208 563 0007
