We all need mentors. After all, even the best coaches
have coaches.

The other day I went out for lunch with my mentor, the
man who taught me that good coaching starts with a
foundation of education.

(I thought that being a good athlete automatically
made me a good coach - a common belief among former
athletes. And an incorrect one.)

We each have athletes capable of winning conference and
state titles and, coincidentally, they compete in the
same events in the same conference.

So it’s been fun to watch them go head to head. It’s
too early to say whose athletes have the upper hand
so far, but let’s just say I didn’t have to pay for
lunch…

(Sorry Murph!)

As we were talking training he brought out the program
he used when coaching the fastest sprinter in our
region of the past 20 years.

Good thing I had a cold beverage to wash down the
humble pie!

As I looked it over it reinforced the importance of
seeking the wisdom of coaches who have more experience
than you.

If you really want to improve the
speed and athletic success of your athletes, you
need a mentor too.

Someone who knows more about the process than you do.

Someone who can walk you through the steps and stages
of speed development.

That’s why I created the Complete Speed Training
program.

The program serves as an any-time mentor for you as
you develop and fine tune your coaching skill and
knowledge.

Over the course of 5 DVDs and over 3 hours of video
instruction, I’ll walk you through every step of
developing faster athletes.

Want to know the best way to get your athletes prepared
for practices and competitions?

From full dynamic warmups drills, exercises and
routines to hip mobility and self myofascial release
(the foam rolling techniques that are all the rage
these days) I’ll explain exactly when, why and how
to add these movements into your program.

Next I break down multidirectional speed and agility.

Understand exactly how to develop coordination and
improve athletes’ ability to quickly and explosively
shift gears and change directions.

And I progress it all from simple movements to more
complex actions so you know exactly when and where
to jump in.

You need to condition your athletes and develop their
work capacity don’t you?

Of course.

Discover how to develop appropriate levels of
general strength and aerobic power to guarantee your
athletes can handle the demands of the speed, strength
and power development that serves as the foundation
of their training.

Speaking of which…

I commit an entire DVD to strength and power training.

The junk I see most athletes doing in the weight room
hurts my eyes on a daily basis.

So I’ll show you the weight training exercises that
develop the strength that carries over to the track,
field or court.

And I’ll tell you how often to do them and give specific
tips for making sure the exercises are performed
safely.

I’ve gotten some pretty good results with my athletes
so I want to pay it forward and mentor you.

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Plyometric training is another great way to develop
power…but only if it is done right.

And based on my experience, chances are your athletes
aren’t doing it right…if at all.

I’ll walk you through a progression of plyometric
training where each exercise builds upon the previous
one. You’ll know exactly what to look for before
letting athletes progress to more advanced movements.

And of course we have the bread and butter of the
program.

And my primary area of expertise.

How to improve speed and acceleration.

Most programs aren’t even doing real speed work. You
might not even know what it is. Or you’re hesitant
to buy into the rest periods, demands and changes
to the way you’ve been doing things that this type
of training requires.

I don’t have time to go into it here, but I break it
down into great detail in Complete Speed Training.

I’ll show you all the major mechanical mistakes holding
your athletes back…and how to fix them.

You’ll see exactly how to progress athletes starting
with the type of workouts that set the foundation
for future success.

You’ll get video breakdowns of acceleration development,
and top speed training. So if you work with field and
court sports and want to focus primarily on acceleration,
it’s right there for you.

When you want to bring in top speed training
(especially for you track coaches) I cover that too…
like teaching athletes the critical skill of ‘floating’.

Have you ever been at a competition in any sport and
actually watched athletes attempt to perform speed
drills?

It’s almost like their coaches are trying to create
more mechanical problems instead of fix them.

It’s sad really.

And once you teach your athletes my progression of
speed drills immediately see improvements to speed
and technique, you’ll cringe when you watch
those ‘other’ athletes too.

If I see you at a competition we’ll look at each other
and share a wink and a smile…

Because we know what our athletes are about to do
to these average kids.

Even if you are a bit confused about how to tie all
this information together I have that covered as well.

Complete Speed Training comes with a 28 day sample
program where every workout, set, rep and exercise
is laid out for you to copy and amend.

Could you still be overwhelmed with information?

Not likely, but I want to make sure you have total
confidence in the training you give your athletes.

With Complete Speed Training you get a 30 minute
phone consultation with me.

If you have a question about coaching, training,
running camps and clinics…anything at all…

I’ll make sure you get your answers before we get
off the phone.

I guarantee this information works.

I’ll give you your money back if it doesn’t.

That’s how confident I am in Complete Speed Training.

So let me mentor you, your athlete/s, your program.

You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

And there is simply no other coaching resource on
the planet that delivers like Complete Speed Training.

Order today and revolutionize the way you coach speed.

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To your success,

Latif Thomas
P.S. If price is an issue, you have the option of
breaking up the cost of Complete Speed Training into
3 easy payments spread 30 days apart.

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Remember if you keep doing things the way you’ve always
done them, you’ll keep getting the same results.

And that is the definition of insanity.
 

Creating a periodization program for the upcoming soccer season takes a lot of time and effort. Hours are spent putting together a training program with hopes of having a great season and improving on the previous year.

The big question is, how do you know if you have a perfect training plan for your team? How do you quantify how successful your program is/was? Do you go by wins and losses?

You need a measurable way of assessing the success of your program - something you can track and something you can quantify in order to compare before, during, and after season results.
So how do you accomplish this?

What makes up a successful training program and how do you make sure that your program design is right for your team?

How do you measure the success of your program, or how well your program is working?

Answer: Measure the athletes.

Click the link below if you want to learn more about the importance of testing your soccer athletes:

http://tinyurl.com/3dnpf4

Yours in speed,

Patrick Beith

P.S. - Testing gives you a gauge on what needs to be addressed with individual athletes and the team in general. For tips on testing for soccer check out this article:

http://tinyurl.com/3dnpf4
 

I wanted to publicly say congratulations to my friend, Coach Duane Carlisle!

Duane now hold’s most coaches Dream Job. He was promoted to San Francisco 49ers Head Strength & Conditioning Coach.

Duane recently served as the Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach to the 49ers (he also served as the Speed Coach to the Philadelphia Eagles) and after only 2 years he has risen and taken over the head coaching position.

Duane has had incredible success in the strength and conditioning industry.  He’s truly done it all having brought the best out of athletes from youth through the professional level.

He is a class act and is one of the most knowledgeable guys in the industry. Being 1 of only 32 Head S & C coaches in the NFL, is by itself impressive, and shows the caliber of coach that Duane is.

Congratulations again Duane, and best of luck. I know that you can help take the 49ers back to their glory days.
Yours in speed,

Patrick Beith

P.S. - If you want to learn more about Coach Duane Carlisle’s training systems for speed and athletic development, check out his programs below:

Training for Youth Football
http://tinyurl.com/2dodkh

Team-Based Speed Training for Lacrosse
http://tinyurl.com/22ms7m

Speed Training for Youth
http://tinyurl.com/27bybj

Speed Training for Soccer (with Kelly Smith)
http://tinyurl.com/yogzpv
“I wish I would have started training for speed and athleticism when I was playing youth football as opposed to starting with Coach Carlisle right after I graduated from college. I believe that I would have been that much better of a player.”

Brian Westbrook
Philadelphia Eagles
Pro Bowl Running Back

Training for Youth Football - http://tinyurl.com/2dodkh

Having quick, explosive, fast and powerful athletes are going to be very important to the success of your basketball team.

As coaches we always want to work on the fundamentals with our athletes. Skills like dribbling, passing, rebounding, boxing out, etc. are the types of fundamentals that every coach stresses to their basketball team. These skills are necessary and need to be emphasized if you want to develop your athletes as players (and if you want your team to win games).

Often overlooked by coaches are the fundamentals of movement. Sure coaches will have their athletes run suicides and some lateral shuffles, but most never express the importance of proper movement mechanics.

Do you want athletes to learn how to

- stay with an opponent?
- change direction quickly?
- cut off the baseline?
- stop a point guard from penetrating?
- be able to beat defenders to the hoop?
Well it’s going to take more then you yelling ’shut down that point guard’, ‘be a defensive stopper’, ‘get off that pick’, ‘blow by that defender’.

Teaching an athlete the perfect athletic stance, changing direction quickly, and other speed & power techniques, are just as important as teaching the bounce pass and the pick & roll.

Lee Taft has created a program that focuses entirely on becoming a better basketball player through improving basketball speed and quickness. He ties together proper movement skills with how they are used in game situations.
Not only will Lee show you the breakdown of specific speed movements, he also shows how these speed and quickness techniques actually apply to basketball.

If you want to learn how put together the fundamentals of basketball passing, shooting, dribbling, etc. that you already know, with the fundamentals of movement, speed, quickness, and power, to develop the complete athlete, checkout Lee Taft’s Basketball Speed Training program:

http://tinyurl.com/2t9tko

Yours in speed,

Patrick Beith

P.S. - “Lee Taft’s BASKETBALL SPEED TRAINING DVD is top-notch and full of great information and tips for athletes, parents and coaches. As an owner of a Youth Athlete Performance Training Center , I’m in the trenches everyday and having products like Lee’s BASKETBALL SPEED helps us stay on the cutting edge with our programming.”

Ron Patulski
Training Champions Institute
East Syracuse, New York

http://tinyurl.com/2t9tko