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166: How To Develop Match-Winning Speed In Team Sports

Science for Sport Podcast

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How to Improve Acceleration in a Reactive Environment

acceleration is not just straight ahead speed but how can you accelerate back at a 45 degree angle and go forward. If athletes can't perform those little patterns well especially in a rehearsed environment how can we expect them to ever do that well in a reactive environment? I think that is kind of the biggest difference saying that okay we can just improve top end speed and then let agility drills take care of the rest of those things. We're still missing a step in between that of do they have the physical capacity to move well in all those different scenarios.

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