Speed Session
Starting At: $25.00
Outdoor speed training for ages 14 and up. Linear running mechanics, acceleration, top speed, and core work and hip mobility that supports those qualities. Short maximal reps with full recovery, because getting faster and getting tired are not the same thing.
Pay what you can at or above the minimum. New here? Your first session is free, you can claim it from the schedule before you buy anything.
Details
Speed Session does one thing. Acceleration and top speed, for athletes 14 and up, outdoors on tracks and open ground across North Austin.
Almost every athlete who wants to get faster is handed conditioning instead, sprints on short rest, suicides, gassers, runs tacked onto the end of practice. That work builds tolerance for being tired and teaches the body to move efficiently at eighty percent. It is close to the opposite of speed training. You can’t practice being fast while fatigued, because fatigued is slow by definition.
Real speed work is short, maximal and heavily rested. Reps are measured in seconds. The rest between them is measured in minutes, and that rest isn’t downtime, it’s the part that makes the next rep fast enough to be worth running. If you watch a session and think the athletes are standing around too much, that’s the session working.
Acceleration and top speed are also two different qualities, and most programs train them as one. The first few steps and holding form at full speed ask different things of the body, different angles, different ground contact, different force in different directions. We train them separately because they improve separately.
Sessions cover:
- Acceleration: first steps, body angle, and putting force into the ground behind you
- Top speed: upright mechanics, ground contact, and holding form once you’re there
- Sprint technique: arm action, posture, and getting rid of the wasted movement
- Recovery: full rest between reps, coached rather than skipped
This is a supplement, not a program on its own. Speed is one quality, and an athlete who only sprints runs out of the strength and structure that lets them keep doing it. Pair it with Teen Athletic or HS Elite, purchasing this product allows you to scheduling for both, so there’s nothing separate to buy.
Fourteen and up. There’s no minimum speed to start and no sport you need to already play, the mechanics are the same whether you’re chasing a starting spot, a track time, or the kid who’s been beating you to the ball all season.
How it works. Your first session is free, and you can claim it straight from the schedule before you buy anything. After that, buy a pack of 4, 8 or 12 credits and pay what you can at or above the minimum. One credit books one session, and credits are good for 60 days. The same pack works at any of our outdoor groups, so adding Speed Sessions to a week you’re already training is just a matter of booking them.
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