Course Outline

This two-day course is intended for physical therapists, physical therapy assistants, athletic trainers, strength and conditioning coaches, and sports coaches. You will learn the best techniques for improving speed, agility, and quickness for athletes of all ages and abilities. Many people believe that speed is something that you are just born with but speed is just like any other motor skill which can be improved with proper training. This course has been designed to assist you identify common mistakes in acceleration, deceleration, and change of direction. Specific instructions and techniques will be provided in order to help you teach correct mechanics with the goal of achieving a more explosive first step for your athletes. After completing this course, participants will you will be able to help athletes develop a more explosive first step, improve their speed, and improve their ability to change direction at a moment’s notice.

Beginning and advanced training techniques will be discussed in this course. Previous experience with these concepts is not necessary prior to attending this course. There are extensive laboratory sessions throughout this course. All participants will receive a comprehensive manual that summarizes the information provided in the lectures. Research support and a list of references for the training techniques will be included. The concepts presented can be applied to both healthy athletes and athletes who are undergoing rehabilitation. You will be able to incorporate the information that is presented immediately into your training and rehabilitation programs. Participants will also learn how to create successful and profitable speed clinics and sports performance programs.

Course Objectives

• Perform and design warm up drills to best prepare athletes for training and competition.

• Teach athletes to position themselves in the best alignment so as to give them a more explosive first step.

• Teach corrective techniques for acceleration, deceleration, and change in direction and identify the most common flaws in technique.

• Perform the most effective drills for improving speed, acceleration, and change direction such as the wall drill, falling starts, get up and go, ball drops, cone drills and more!

• Understand the science of plyometrics to be able to safely and systematically progress athletes through the various drills.

• Teach the most effective exercises for developing speed, strength and power.

• Choose which performance tests, such as vertical jumps, broad jump, medicine ball throw, T-test, pro shuttle agility, 10 yd. sprint and more! to evaluate an athletes performance.

• Properly interpret collected data to identify an athletes strength and weaknesses.

• Train and teach the “tricks” to get the best performance possible in combining tests.

• Design and market your speed, agility and quickness clinics.

• Understand sports nutrition so that you can appropriately communicate your the benefits of proper nutrition for maximum results.

• Appropriately apply training techniques and concepts during the rehabilitation of sports injuries, including post surgical patients.

Schedule of instruction

	Day One		Day Two
7:30 8:00	Registration	8:00 9:00	Strength Training for Speed Development
8:00 8:30	Dynamic Warm Up: Why You Should Never Static Stretch Before and Activity		• The most effective exercises
	• Negative effects of static stretching on performance		• Intensity, sets, reps and rest periods
	• Benefits of performing a dynamic warm up		• Sample training programs
	• Components of the dynamic warm up and progression of drills	9:00 9:30	Using the Olympic Lifts for Increasing Power
8:30 9:00	The Start: How to Position Yourself for Maximum Speed		• The Clean and Jerk
	• The athletic stance		• The Snatch
	• Three point stance		• Alternatives to Olympic Lifting
	• Standing starts	9:30 10:30	Lab Session IV: teaching Strength and Power Exercises
	• First step quickness		• RDL’s (double leg and single leg)
9:00 10:00	Lab Session I		• Squats
	• Dynamic warm-up drills for linear speed		• Hang cleans and snatches
	• Dynamic warm up drills for multidirectional speed		• Kettlebell swings
	• Starting positions for max speed	10:30 10:45	Break
10:00 10:15	Break	10:45 11:45	Performance Testing
10:15 11:15	Linear Speed Development		• Selecting proper tests, testing order, and rest periods
	Teaching correct mechanics and Identifying the most Common Flaws in technique		• Tests for power (VJ, BJ, MB, throws)
	• Acceleration		• Acceleration and speeding testing
	• Top Speed		• Agility testing
	• Deceleration		• Functional movement screening
	• Video Analysis	11:45 12:15	Maximizing Testing Performance for the football and Baseball Combine
1:15 12:15	Multi-Directional Speed		• Vertical jump
	Development: Teaching correct mechanics and identifying the most common flaws in technique		• Broad Jump • 5-10-5 shuttle
	• Plyo step versus false step		• 40 yard sprint
	• Lateral shuffle		• 225 lb bench press
	• Crossover step		• 60 yard sprint
	• Backward acceleration (back pedaling and the hip return)	12:15 1:15	Lunch (On Your Own)
12:15 1:15	Lunch (On Your Own)	1:15 2:15	How to Set Up Your Own Speed Camp of Clinic
1:15 3:15	Lab Session II		• Liability issues
	• Acceleration drills		• Selecting the best location
	• Top speed drills		• Purchasing and choosing the right equipment
	• Multidirectional drills		• Format of the camp (2 day, 1 week, 4-6 week camps)
	• Agility ladder drills	2:15 3:15	Marketing Your Clinic
	• Reaction and quickness drills		• Making contacts: Who, what, and how
3:15 3:30	Break		• Brochures and flyers: how to design them for maximum response
3:30 4:30	Plyometrics		• Capturing media’s attention
	• Science of plyometircs		• How to write a press release
	• Safety considerations	3:15 4:15	Specialty Clinics
	• Types and progression of drills		• ACL injury prevention
4:30 5:30	Lab Session III		• Youth
	• Jumps		• High school
	• Hops		• Professional athletes
	• Bounds		• Firefighter and first responder
	• Medicine ball	4:15 4:45	Sports Nutrition
			• Performance eating
			• Timing of meals
			• Supplements

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Scheduled Dates and Locations

Start Date	End Date	Location - **Click to Map It**	Tuition	Hrs	Hotel
Nov 22, 08	Nov 23, 08	Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Dallas, TX	$399.00	15.00	View Hotels
Apr 04, 09	Apr 05, 09	Carillon Outpatient Center, St. Petersburg, FL	$399.00	15.00	View Hotels
May 02, 09	May 03, 09	Northwest Hospital, Seattle, WA	$399.00	15.00	View Hotels
Jun 27, 09	Jun 28, 09	San Ramon Regional Medical Center, San Ramon, CA	$399.00	15.00	View Hotels
Aug 29, 09	Aug 30, 09	St. Anthony's Medical Center, St Louis, MO	$399.00	15.00	View Hotels
Oct 10, 09	Oct 11, 09	Impact Sports Medicine, Westminster, CO	$399.00	15.00	View Hotels
Oct 31, 09	Nov 01, 09	Baylor All Saints Medical Center Ft. Worth, Fort Worth, TX	$399.00	15.00	View Hotels