Speed Report: The History of Football Speed Training (Part I)

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

In the late seventies, into the early eighties, not much was taking place in the football speed world. In fact, before the early eighties, nothing formal was being done about speed development for football. By the eighties only some football programs had begun to consider speed training as a possible approach. For many years, coaches felt athletes either had speed or they didn’t. They were convinced that it couldn’t be developed. This concept was the main reason speed training was...Login to Read More

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