Speed
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The Best Lifts For Ultimate Players
[This one is wild…if you read “To The Athletes I Failed,” you know I’m quite willing to admit I’ve done things wrong…way after the fact. Well, 2017/02/16 I penned this piece reflecting on my 2015 opinions. I was wrong at first, I watched and learned, I shifted, and athletes got better results. Here we are…
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What’s The Real Goal? (on weaknesses)
(Wrote this one as the final issue of The Speed and Strength Newsletter…but if you’re interested in where I was going, let me know in the comments and I’ll pick it back up! – Coach Dunte) Do you want a quicker first step? I love to ask players what, exactly, they want to improve in…
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Eating My Own Cooking (on sprinting faster…again)
(This is the post that teased the launch of my book Fast Kids Don’t Train Slow available on Amazon. That was 2017/07/03, about 3 months before I went a different direction with my career. Funny how painful this post is to revisit, as I’ve made all the same mistakes over again. Told you we were…
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Do Agility Drills Create Better Athletes?
[This piece was written for MyMadMethods, later Onnit Magazine, back on 2014/09/19. I like to think I’m not so self-righteous these days and my perspective on strength training for speed-power-agility has evolved a bit, but this is still generally true.Enjoy!– Coach Dunte, 2022] Sports coaches have it all wrong. Send your kid to a speed…
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Speed Development For Busy Athletes
[This short guide to running faster was written 2015/04/23.While my specific approach has evolved considerably since then, I’m still proud of this and stand by it. Enjoy!– Coach Dunte, 2022] Don’t think of these as steps in a process – think of them as parts in an assembly. You can’t “move” from “1” to “2”…