{Audio} Multidirectional training is overrated!
By Athletes' Acceleration | July 7th, 2008
Overrated?
Heresy! Blasphemy! Sacrilege!
No my friend, I’m standing by that statement.
Multidirectional speed training is overrated.
And I know some of the brand name coaches are going
to lose their minds.
But you’ve been lied to, hoodwinked, bamboozled,
led astray, run amok…
Want to know why? Take a listen below.
If you’ve listened to my entire audio (it’s only
about 10 minutes long), you know I’ve made a few
suggestions.
Here they are:
Door #1: Groundbreaking Athletic Movement Series
Door #2: Complete Speed Training
Door #3: CST/GBAM combo (20% discount)
As always, feel free to post your comments below.
To your success,
Latif Thomas
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This entry was posted on Monday, July 7th, 2008 at 9:47 am and is filed under Speed Training . You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
July 7th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Latif,
What’s your thoughts on what commonly gets referred to as overspeed training as a means to increase speed (i.e running on a treadmill with an unweighting vest so your legs learn to move at faster speeds)?
July 7th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
You’ve made references to the movie the matrix to explain how athletes should trust their coach. Just saw a movie that had a couple of good quotes and was pretty entertaining at the same time. “The forbidden Kingdom”. With Jet li and jackie chan, the kung fu is a little cheesy but reminds me of the good oll days. Check it out and you’ll pick up the quotes. About Multidirectional training, agree with you 100% its whack.
July 7th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Latif, I believe you are correct. I believe training for pure accelleration for field sports is the best way to go. My son has been using your info(how to run a faster 40 yd. dash cd) and the Barry Ross workout now for 2 years and has passed most of his age group(teammates) in football and baseball in the 40. Thank you for all your valuable information, Bobby Muehlstein.
July 7th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
If we coaches had a magic wand and we went to all the team sports coaches in the country and said “This magic wand will grant your team one assett and one assett only. What do you choose ?
Every coach will say speed !
If that’s not accelleration I’m a monkeys Uncle.
Cheers
July 7th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Latif,
Thanks so much for being upfront and honest! I’ve put 32 guys in the NFL and several Div. 1 athletes in college in all sports, male and female.
The multidirectional coaches tell athletes not to go to me because I teach track speed and thats different than multidirectional!
I teach acceleration and from that I train the combine drills as well as other sports drills. Your correct in saying acceleration is the basis of all athletic movements.
Thanks for voicing the truth!
Tim Graf
July 7th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
talk more about the fasted way to get off the line. Fast feet are the best–along with acceleration–period…. Multidirection is being quick–which is more equal to fast feet—not just acceleration. Your crazy—the speed ladder is the quick feet—come on—man—you are good–no great—I have your program—fast feet & acceleration–are the best—period!!!!!!!
July 8th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Hey Latif,
Great audio! As you know I am one of those guys that brought multi-directional speed training to the forefront many years ago. I couldn’t aggree with you more on acceleration. The only think I would comment on is that you are assuming that acceleration isn’t apart of multi-directional speed. All the techniques I encourage are directly related to the ability to acclerate before or after- so linear or lateral acceleration is a fixed component of multi-directional speed. The reason I have ever addressed the techniques of change of direction, cutting, deceleration is so coaches and athletes understand the fine mechanics of being safe and being more explosive when changing direction. But as you put- acceleration is the name of the game.
Great job!
Lee Taft
July 8th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Jose: I’ll check it out because I am a big time Jet Li and Jackie Chan fan. Have been for years.
Bobby: My pleasure. Thank you for the testimonial you sent back a few years ago. I remember!
Russ: I agree. Problem is I think many coaches wouldn’t actually know how to answer that question. But that’s what we’re here for!
Tim: As we’ve discussed many times - people are haters and you just have to roll with it. Just keep doing what you’re doing and thank you for all the kind words and positive blog posts you’ve been leaving!
Jerry: Couldn’t have said it better myself!!
Lee: You are correct. I did make that assumption. I should have clarified it as being the mistake coaches make - not stressing the symbiotic relationship between the change of direction movement and the acceleration that precedes and follows it.
But your techniques certainly do address acceleration and, quite frankly, the movements you have brought to the forefront of the industry are without equal.
– Latif
July 8th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Wow, I completely agree with you. I have always felt that MDT was just an auxillary to true speed training. Without the explosiveness needed in acceleration, the ability to throw those nifty moves would be useless without the ability to escape thru explosive acceleration. thanks for the info and constent advice and support.
July 11th, 2008 at 10:00 am
I AGREE with the premise. Acceleration is the key! Of course as a world class trainer you understand acceleration very intimately. I agree that acceleration needs to be above them all….
But is tricky. I believe that the proper stimulus would be to learn to properly decelerate so that acceleration is possible. This includes multidirectionaly also.
The efficiency of movement is what is important. Inefficiency can lead to slower and injury prone atheletes.
If you train both decel and acceleration then the body will respond, it will know. But if you train one without the other, the body will not be as efficient.
July 13th, 2008 at 8:37 am
Very good audio! I also have an issue training a lot of multi-directional training with kids whose sport is predominantly multi-directional by nature. Just seems redundant…we focus on building a bigger engine!