IHT Human Performance

The field is not a straight line, but almost everyone trains like it is

Sprints. Acceleration. Getting to top speed. All useful, all only half the picture because the game isn’t won at top speed… it’s won by decelerating

It doesn’t matter how fast you are if you can’t stop. You can’t floor a Ferrari if you have the brakes of a Prius…

So how do you fix it? We use Isometrics as well as HEAVY eccentrics to produce enough force to stop and then redirect

No brakes… no gas, simple as that

More swings (and more hitting lessons) are the most common ways athletes try to hit the ball harder, and it never really works

Here’s why. Exit velo is a force problem, not a swing problem

How hard the ball comes off the bat depends on how much force your whole body can produce and how fast you deliver it up the chain. The swing is just the last part

You don’t fix it by taking more swings or more lessons... you build it in the weight room

That’s why the three drills cover the whole chain, not one spot. Scoop tosses build rotation through the hips. Trap bar jumps build the lower half… force into the ground. Bench builds the upper half, so everything you generate below actually makes it into the bat

Miss a link and the chain leaks. Build all three

Anybody can question a force plate number. Nobody can question a ball landing over the fence

The metrics are absurd… Nathan nearly doubled his power in 60 days and added 14 pounds doing it. But that’s not what makes it real

What makes it real is he’s hitting moonshots in actual games. The force plate number showed up as bombs on the field

That’s the entire point of what we do… train to produce measurable outcomes in sport

We never worked on his swing. Not once. We built the engine… how much force he puts into the ground, and how fast

His power-to-weight went from 66.3 to nearly 100, so even accounting for the weight he put on, he didn’t just get heavier. He got violent

Build the engine. The sport takes care of itself

Drop a follow to learn how to hit more bombs

When Banks walked in, he was a top 500 player in the country and top 10 in the state. That’s already a big deal. Most people would have coasted on it

He didn’t. He trained like the ranking meant nothing and the work meant everything. Year round… Through his season.

When it was hot and it hurt and there was no reason to be in the gym, he was in the gym

We never once trained him to be a better catcher. We trained him to produce force. The catching took care of itself

Kansas City called his name two weeks ago

The next level is closer than most kids think. It’s about twelve months of doing what Banks did (and then some)

Come in for an assessment to see how your numbers stack up

The Load Velocity Profile is key to unlocking an athlete’s potential

If you don’t know where the athlete is… you’re lost

Every single one of our 8,000w+ jumpers were put into a load velocity profile (LVP)… it’s no wonder they have extreme output now

You can run a LVP with any movement as long as you know what you’re looking for

Don’t train somewhere that can’t figure out your deficiencies

Save this video and ask your coach what you need to get better at

There’s no such thing as a sport specific program

There’s a squat. You get under it, you produce force, you stand up

The bar has no idea what you do on Saturday. It doesn’t care what position you play or what showcase you’re going to

What people sell when they say “sport-specific” is comfort. It sounds like it was built for you. It’s a label on the same work everyone else is doing, priced like it’s different

The weight room and the sport are the same thing from a movement perspective. Both are you producing force. The sport is where you express it, the weight room is where you build it

Danny Flatt in one offseason here added 18 pounds and 3 miles an hour. Nothing we did was “sports specific”

The ladder and comes aren’t completely useless. It’s just not a speed drill

(Well the ladder is pretty much useless)

It’s footwork (but not really). It’s coordination (but not really). It’s fine… (but not really)

But it got sold as the thing that makes kids fast, and now there’s a generation who got sold a lie and spent multiple summers and off-seasons doing quick feet and never got faster

Here’s what actually decides your top speed: how much force you put into the ground, and how fast you put it there

The ladder doesn’t ask you for force. Your foot barely touches the ground. Nothing gets loaded, nothing gets threatened, nothing changes

The four drills in the video all ask for one thing… put force into the ground, and do it now

If a drill doesn’t ask you for force, it isn’t training speed…

It’s training you to look busy

Don’t get caught up in the ladder and cone scam

Your squat is a photograph. Your impulse is a video

The squat tells you what you can do when time doesn’t matter. Take four seconds to get it up, grind the rep. It still counts

Your sport doesn’t work like that. A swing is under half a second from hips to hands to bat. The first step out of a break is faster. Nobody’s giving you four seconds

So we test concentric impulse at 50 and 100 milliseconds… force expressed inside the window your sport actually gives you

The reason it’s worth testing is that it has real world implication

Mason’s went from 136 to 276 in four weeks. That’s 102.94% in one training cycle…

Your squat number is comfortable. It goes up if you keep showing up

Impulse only goes up if you’re violent with it. That’s why we track it

Most places don’t even know what impulse is