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Why Your Athletes Are Fast in Testing But Slow in Games

Learn why traditional speed testing fails to transfer into game performance and how elite coaches fix the problem.

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How to Accurately Measure Sprint Speed (Without Expensive Timing Gates)

If you can’t measure speed properly, speed training becomes guesswork. And when speed training feels like guesswork, coaches default to what feels reliable: the weight room. Numbers go up. Athletes feel like they’re improving. But on game day… nothing changes. This isn’t a motivation problem. It’s not a programming problem. It’s a measurement problem. In this article, I’m going to break down:...

How to Accurately Measure Sprint Speed (Without Expensive Timing Gates)SPEED BY SPORTLAND If you can’t measure speed properly, speed training becomes guesswork. And when speed training feels like guesswork, coaches default to what feels reliable: the weight room. Numbers go up. Athletes…

Strength and conditioning has lost the plot. Every week there’s another “guru,” another magic exercise, another podcast arguing Olympic lifts versus trap-bar jumps. In this episode of The Sam Portland Podcast, 30-year coaching veteran Matt Vickery joins me to unpack what’s really gone wrong — and how we can fix it. The Problem With the Modern S&C World According to Matt, today’s coaching culture is obsessed with middle-ground fluff — endless debate, little progress....

Why Most S&C Coaches Are Getting It Wrong (and What Actually Matters)SPEED BY SPORTLAND Strength and conditioning has lost the plot. Every week there’s another “guru,” another magic exercise, another podcast arguing Olympic lifts versus trap-bar jumps. In this episode of The Sam Portl…

Physiological Training Breakdown...

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Maximizing Law of Accommodation for Strength...

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Transfer Principles - Speed System Insight...

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Non Linear Sprinting - Speed System Insight...

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Focused Training for Acceleration and Skill...

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