American Football
"Football Speed Part I" Kelly Baggett
"This article is about increasing speed specific to football. In a game of football, rarely does a player get a chance to run straight ahead for any length of time. Even when doing so, this is almost always followed by a need to stop and change direction. The speed quality that is really important for football is agility."
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"Football Speed Part II" Kelly Baggett
"Too much static flexibility work can also have a negative influence on reactive strength. An overly flexible muscle-tendon complex can dampen the reactive reflex, or spring-like effect. The muscle-tendon complex needs an optimal stiffness in order to function optimally. Since the type of flexibility you need in football is dynamic anyway, I recommend you focus the majority of your time in achieving optimal dynamic flexibility."
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"Football Speed - 7 Tips to a Faster 40" Patrick Beith
"Your quick leg is going to be in the back position when starting in a 3-point stance and your power leg will be in front. The front leg is going to be the leg that is really starting the initial drive out so you want your strongest and most powerful leg in front."
Athletes Acceleration
"Football Speed - 7 Tips to a Faster 40 (Part 2)" Patrick Beith
"When athletes try and stay low they normally hold themselves down by breaking at the hips. This will limit the amount of force you can apply to the ground and leads to poor acceleration."
Athletes Acceleration
"Keys to developing football players" Jason Hadeed
"I am a big believer of creating bigger, faster, stronger, and more conditioned athletes but the approach I use is not the most accepted approach in the industry. ... The bottomline is that we take each set to exhaustion and we move onto the next one."
Athletes Acceleration
"National Athletic Trainers' Association position statement: head-down contact and spearing in tackle football"
"Each time a player initiates contact with his head down, he risks paralysis. Therefore, increased attention to the frequency of head-down contact occurring in games and practices is needed."
Journal of Athletic Training 39:1
"Pre season football"
"Football is a game of repeated bouts of intense activity, so players must have strength to produce powerful movements repeatedly through an entire game."
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"What to do after the season is over"
"Coaches cannot afford to spend time during pre-season trying to get the players in shape. Because of this, athletes need to be physically prepared before camp."
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"Youth football specific speed " Brian Grasso
"Training stimulus in which athletes are asked to perform repeated efforts with limited rest time (especially when the symptomology of the effort includes breathlessness, excessive sweating or an increase in lactic acid production) is not an efficient or realistic means by which to increase speed."
Athletes Acceleration
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