Speed Report: Combining In-Season Conditioning with In-Season Speed Training

by Dale Baskett
Football Speed Specialist
American Football Monthly June 2010 Issue Online

The answer is usually not well-received. My reply is that we need to understand how the game is played physiologically. If you run athletes hard and often with short recovery time between efforts, your athletes are being exposed to overtraining. Consequently, you’re training the wrong metabolic system and will not be tapping the proper system that is required. Limited recovery with constant brutal sprinting is going to keep the heart rate at maximum levels. The heart rate should have a ...Login to Read More

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