With the opening ceremonies underway in Tokyo, we wanted to know what athletes had worked on during the off-season. One of the things we heard over and over again was about speed; the need to be faster. We asked a long-time friend of JAWKU and renowned speed coach, Michael Cummings, how he prepares athletes to get faster. He says, “I use a modified 3-P approach that I adopted from my years with EXOS.”
JAWKU, the premiere manufacturer of performance measurement, training and recovery products has partnered with USA Bobsled and Skeleton as its official training gear supplier. We're excited to provide both our JAWKU Speed portable timing devices as well as Muscle Blaster recovery massage guns to Team USA Bobsled/Skeleton.
Sports are largely about speed. It makes a huge difference in every game and every sport. Speed is actually a skill: having a quick first step, agile lateral motion, and aggressive acceleration can turn a player or team into a high-octane scoring machine. And there are few sports in which that skill is more pivotal, or is more of an indicator of a player’s value, than in football.
Taking a closer look at your warmup may be the advantageous “unlock” you’ve been looking for in your quest for running faster and farther than you ever thought possible. However, once you start pushing your body past its comfort zone (meaning increasing speed and distance), your risk for injury increases substantially, and in the case of sprinters, exponentially. The best way to increase your performance goals is by ditching your old warmup and adding a “dynamic” warmup. The difference between a traditional warmup and a dynamic warmup is night and day.
Due to the larger muscle mass in sprinters as well as other strength/power athletes, new modalities are being investigated to help expedite muscle repair and recovery. One modality delivering significant results is “Deep Tissue Percussive Body Work”. This muscle tissue prep and recovery can help prevent injury, protect against trauma and expedite the recovery process.
Would you ever know what your body weight was if you never stepped on a scale? The same reasoning goes for performance metrics like speed, agility and strength. If you don’t measure those things, you’ll never know where you are. You won’t know what type of program to implement or even where to start.
Linear speed development can be categorized into 3 zones. Understanding these zones and training for each of these individually will be your answer to becoming the fastest athlete you can be.
