7 ELEMENTS OF A SUCCESSFUL

SPEED PROGRAM

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The ONEighty Athletics summer Speed & Conditioning program will prepare you for your upcoming season. You will do linear
speed (focusing on body lean and shin angle), plyometric training, and speed endurance on Mondays. General agilities and
sport specific agilities on Tuesdays. Linear speed (focusing on foot strike and turnover) on Thursdays. Friday we finish the
off with Anaerobic conditioning. Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursday we want you to do all of the conditioning work before
the weight training workouts. On Fridays, do the conditioning after the weight-training workout. Make sure you
follow the dynamic warm-up and you are thoroughly loose and ready to go. Follow the static
stretch routine given in the warm-up section after you have completed the conditioning workouts.
There is no worse feeling than wanting to give your best and not being in good enough condition to get it done. You must
follow the program specifically and give it one hundred percent. Make sure to follow the interval times and the rest
times given in the manual.
Our goal is to be the most conditioned team in the country. For this to happen, you must attack the running program with
100 percent focus and intensity.
When doing the running workouts, make sure to follow the reps, yardage, percentages, and work to rest ratios of each
drill.
Sports consist of angles, acceleration, changing gears, and reaction. A player must be able to redirect in space and
redirect to a player. This must be done at different speeds or without slowing down at all. An athlete must also have
the ability to decelerate and accelerate quickly and explosively.

abbreviations
Speed Training Abbreviations
Reps Repetitions of each drill: How many to do of each drill
%s Percentages: How fast to perform that particular drill.
Work to Rest Training Abbreviations
WI Work Interval: The portion of the program that consists of high intense work.
RI Rest Interval: The time between work intervals. Never sit down or bend over.
Position Abbreviations (Football Example)
Sk Skill position: WR, DB, RB
Bsk Big skill position: FB, LB, TE, K
OLine Offensive Line position: OL
DLine Defensive Line position: DL

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7 Elements of a Successful Speed Program
KEYS TO SPEED:
1. Stride Length: Less ground contact over exact distances. Able to produce more force into ground.
2. Stride Frequency: Time required to complete a stride. Foot strike is incredibly important!
3. Acceleration: A critical component of the game of football. Football players must react to
certain stimulus, accelerate to maximum speed, change directions, decelerate, reaccelerate, and maintain
maximum speed. The ability to respond to certain stimulus and to get the body moving from a pre-snap
position or on the run.
4. Quickness: The bodys ability to perform specific movements in the shortest times possible.
5. Reaction Time: The ability to respond to a stimulus as fast as possible whether
running or in a standing still position.
6. Sport Specific Speed: Football, is a game of short explosive bursts lasting on an average of 4-6
seconds. Players also need to readjust in space, redirect to a different stimulus, all at
different speed. This is football speed.
7. Speed Endurance: The ability to maintain true speed over a period of time, 1st quarter to 4th
quarter. This prevents you from slowing down late in the game or having the ability to sprint several
times with little rest in between. Training outcomes will be:
A. Repeated short sprints all at the same speed can be made with minimum rest.
B. Maximum speed is reached more quickly.
C. Maximum speed is held for a longer distance before slowing occurs.
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training variables that affect speed improvement

1. Strength: Improvement in strength will improve force and power capability. Improvement in
force and power improve arm drive and knee drive off the ground, which will increase speed.
2. Flexibility: Increases in flexibility will help to improve the stride length and help to prevent
injuries.
3. Power: Increase in power will improve start, reaction ability, and acceleration.
4. Conditioning: Increases in anaerobic conditioning will improve the speed endurance phase.

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speed workouts
We will use three different work percentages when training for acceleration.
50% - A stride, slightly faster than a jog.
75% - A high effort stride, with a noticeably faster pace than 50%.
90% - A very fast sprint, slightly slower than a full sprint.

speed Model
Every speed workout will consist of:
1. Hip mobility exercises: Done to further warm-up the body.
2. Speed Drills: To improve the mechanics and technique when you run.
3. Plyometrics: To apply an overload to the muscles with explosive speed strength and power as a
goal. Make sure to teach the take off, jump, and landing [Stretch shortening cycle]
4. Combination Drills / Starts: Done to work on reaction time and explosion from a stand still
position.
5. Acceleration Drills: The ability to reach maximum speed as fast as possible.
6. Absolute Speed / Speed Endurance Workouts: The ability to maintain true speed over a period of
time. Prevents you from slowing down late in the game.
1. Hip Mobility Exercises:
Leg Swings
Iron Cross
Scorpion
2. Speed Drills: Focus on knee drive and hip extensions and body lean.
Wall Drills
Stationary Arms
3. Plyometrics: Perfect take off and landing technique. Dont land below parallel!
Camps & Combines rate and rake players off of verticals, broad jumps, and 40 times make sure you
attack these drills!
Line Hops
Power Skips
Tuck Jumps
Speed Skaters
Single Leg Jump, Land 2 Feet

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4. Combination Drills For Acceleration: Run for 10 yards from the prescribed starting positions.
Max Speed!
2 pt. Focus on shin angle and body lean!
Falling
Shuffle
Push up
Kneeling SL Side to Side to Sprint
5. Acceleration Drills
Fast, East, Fast: Run the prescribed distance, (5-40 yards) at the given percentage. For example,
3 sets x (10, 15, 20 ,25 yards)
Set 1 x 50%
Set 2 x 75%
Set 3 x 90%
Percentage Build-ups: Begin by striding the first 1/3 of the prescribed yardage amount at 50%. When
reaching the next 1/3 of the prescribed yard mark, increase to 75% and finish the last 1/3 at 90-100%. The
yardage will be between 20 and 40 yards.
Sled/Tire Pulls : Attach a sled or tire around waist. Make sure not to use an amount heavier than 1030 pounds.
6. Speed Endurance Workout
This is the ability to maintain true speed over a period of time, 1st quarter to 4th quarter. This workout
prevents you from slowing down late in the game or having the ability to sprint several times with little
rest in between. The work intervals and rest times for the following speed endurance workouts.
Perform a series of sprints with 20-30 seconds rest. The goal is to build-up a maintenance of speed for a
period of time.
40s, 50s, 53s
Times will be given based on 80% of max effort. For example,
40s x 4 with :20 rest
50s x 4 with :25 rest
53s x 4 with :30 rest
40s
50s
53s
Sk :5.5
Sk :6.5
Sk :7.0
BSk :6.0BSk :7.0 BSk :8.0
DLine :6.5
DLine :7.5
DLine :8.5
OLine :7.0
OLine :8.0
OLine :9.0

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agility training
Agility can be defined as the bodys ability to change directions while maintaining good
control without decreasing speed.
Football is a game of angles, acceleration, changing gears, and reaction. A player must be
able to redirect in space and redirect to a player. This must be done at different speeds or
without slowing down at all. A football player must also have the ability to decelerate
and accelerate quickly and explosively.
Reaction time, awareness in space, balance, and coordination are all involved in agility
training. All movement patterns such as forward running, backward running, lateral
running and other movement drills as skipping, hopping, jumping, etc. are also involved in
agility training.
Agility drills can be performed in the form of cone drills, shuttle runs, reaction drills, agile
bags, movement runs, etc.
Agility (lateral speed) includes:
1. Shuffling
2. Cross-over runs
3. Sideways running
4. Cutting
5. Change of direction drills
Agility Drills
Gator Drill
N-Drill
3,5,7s
Star Drill

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Position agilities
These drills will be extremely important for you to do. You must get practice at moving in a football
position. The best way to improve in football is to perform drills in football. Do not neglect to perform
these drills. You will be expected to have an understanding of your position and how to do the basic
drills we are sending you.
OL, DL
QB, RB, TE, LB
WR, DB
Ks
Rest periods should be long enough to ensure proper technique and all-out effort. (:25) These are listed in
your conditioning schedule.
Work percentages are the effort you use must be 100%. Agility workouts should be done with perfect
technical execution of every rep. Quality is more important than quantity.
For these drills email Coach Cano at [email protected]

anaerobic conditioning
All conditioning phases are based on the interval training principle.
Periods of work followed by a period of rest and recovery. Some work bouts are longer and more
general, while most of the work bouts are short and intense.
Shorter distance intervals entail a greater volume of runs, a relatively faster speed, and a higher work
to rest ratio. Longer distance intervals involve fewer runs, a relatively slower speed, and a lower
work to rest ratio.
The work intervals and the rest times are given in the conditioning schedule for the following runs.
***Always static stretch at the end of conditioning workouts.
300 yd shuttle: This is done on a football field or grass field. We run this in 60 yd intervals making
sure to stop and change directions for the entire 300 yds.
Full Gassers: This is done on a football field or grass field. We run this in 50 yd intervals making sure
to stop and change directions for the entire 200 yds.
Half gassers: This is done on a football field or grass field. We run this in 50 yd intervals making sure
to stop and change directions for the entire 100 yds.
110s: This is done on a football field or grass field. We run this from the goal line to the back of the end
zone.

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plyometric training
The ability to apply a reactive force is the major goal of plyometric training. An increase
in power will directly correlate to an increase in Speed and Explosion.
We will implement plyometrics on Monday and Thursday during our speed / plyo workouts.
We will also implement with complex training with our workouts. Example Squats with
vertical jumps.
It is extremely important to land properly when absorbing force.
Key Cues:
Feet under hips, hips above knees, in power position, chest tall, knees over toes, weight on
front two-thirds of feet. Broad Jump is different, heal to toe.
Guidelines
Who Athletes that can safely squat 1 times their body weight and are in good
physical condition. High-level plyometric exercise (repetitive bounding exercises) are not
recommended for those that weigh more than 230 pounds.
Surface The plyometric program should be done on a soft, level surface, preferably a
synthetic surface that has some give. Avoid doing plyometrics drills on hard surfaces or
where the ground may be uneven and unsafe.
Warm-up Always warm-up the body thoroughly before the plyometric workout. See the
warm-up and stretching procedures outlined in this manual.
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Exercises
Broad Jump
Squat Jump
Continuous Squat Jump
Ankle Hops
Side Single leg line Hops

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quickness training
Quickness is the ability to move the feet as fast as possible in a variety of different patterns. These
patterns can involve double leg or single leg movements. Improved coordination, balance, and developing
quick rapid movements are all goals of the quickness programs.
Do each repetition of each drill at full speed! Jog back to the start and repeat another rep at full
speed. Complete the assigned number of reps and sets for each drill chosen.
Guidelines
Frequency
During the off-season quickness training can be done 1-3 x week. The pre season can include even more
sessions (up to 4 x week). Quickness drills can be done on opposite days from strength training or on
the same day. If this is the case, do the quickness training before strength training the lower body.
Form
Every rep of every drill must be done at full speed for you to get the benefits from it. Full speed also
means under control and staying within the context of the drill.
Surface
Always do quickness drills on an even surface that is not slippery. It would be ideal to do the drills on
the same surface that you play or practice on. Be aware of holes, divots and slippery areas.
Warm-up
Always complete the full warm-up and flexibility routine given in this manual before beginning the
quickness drill workout.
Duration
Drills should be sport specific and each rep will last between 3-10 seconds. The entire quickness workout
should last between 5-15 minutes.
Rest
Rest should be sport specific to train the specific conditioning aspect of the sport. Rest should be
minimal between reps and 2 minutes between sets. Rest long enough to ensure quality work.
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