SpeedRunner: 4 Weeks to Your Fastest Leg Speed In Any Sport

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The speed you need to outsprint the competition, juke your opponent on the field or court, set personal records, and achieve peak performance. In SpeedRunner, celebrated running coach Pete Magill reveals his 4-week training plan to make any athlete into a faster runner, no matter the sport, age, gender, experience, or goals.In every sport that includes running, the difference between the best and the rest is tenths of a second. From team sports like football, soccer, basketball, and baseball to individual sports like distance running, track, and triathlon, faster leg speed makes champions. By targeting the neuromuscular system and strengthening muscle and connective tissue, Magill's SpeedRunner program builds speed, strength, endurance, agility, coordination, balance, proprioception, and explosive power so athletes can excel. Developed over decades of experience coaching athletes of all ages from short sprints to the marathon, Magill's SpeedRunner program is your key to speed. Magill has led his club to two dozen US National Masters Championships in road running and cross country. As a 5-time USA Masters Cross Country Runner of the Year and multiple American and world age-group record holder himself, Magill is proof that his training methods are effective. Along with its core 4-week program, SpeedRunner offers speed only training, once-a-week speed work for distance runners, and single-day sessions focused on injury prevention and whole-body strength.SpeedRunner will make you faster, stronger, quicker—no matter your sport! Review: Get your hands on this book if you want to be fast! - What a brilliantly written and highly useful book! I've been following Pete's writings for years. His Build Your Running Body is the running bible in my little world.. And he does it again with SpeedRunner! Pete brings clarity and wit to highly complex running physiology and science. You can't help but marvel at his rigor, thoughtfulness and fluidity of writing. And he doesn't stop there. In addition to boiling complex science down to simple terms and philosophies, he provides a highly useful training manual that all runners (or team sports player) can apply to their own training. Can't recommend it enough! Review: Be disciplined and follow guidance to become a faster runner - Excellent advice on how to become a faster runner. Easy to follow and helpful photos to illustrate lessons.