A couple months ago I started working on a series
of videos aimed at breaking down all the elements
of developing faster, stronger, healthier athletes.

The more time I put into it - well

…the bigger it got.

When all was said and done I ended up with over 4
hours of content covering everything from the warm
up to speed drills, acceleration development, top
speed training, the weight room, plyometrics,
all the elements of conditioning, speed endurance,
general strength training, short to long programs…

There’s even more in there than that, but I think
you get the idea.

It takes darn near everything I’ve learned working
with athletes and breaks it down from every possible
angle.

I have to admit it’s really good information.

I never planned to offer this many ‘insider secrets’
because it was supposed to be a program I developed
as a personal reference for a small group of clients.

But people liked the information so much -

 …and there’s so much of it

I’ve turned it into a full program and I’m offering
it to you.

http://www.SpeedSecretsRevealed.com

Ever since I finished this program I’ve noticed
something…

I keep referring back to it as I design my own programs,
do phone consultations, etc.

So I know it’s going to help you.

But that’s not the best part.

Besides the fact that the program is over 4 hours
long (ok maybe *that* is the best part) I’m offering
it for an extremely generous price.

I haven’t seen any resource on the market that offers
so much for such a small price.

I explain why I’m offering so much for so little in
my letter describing the program.

But either way, I think you’ll agree that the offer
is too good to pass up.

Check it out here:

http://www.SpeedSecretsRevealed.com
To your success,

Latif Thomas

Program Design is one of the most confusing parts
of being a coach.

Where, when, why, how many, how often, how much rest?

As track coaches we are responsible for many events
and skill levels. We love our sport, we love coaching
kids.

But, for the amount of time we put in, we don’t get
paid much. Peanuts, actually.

And with the economy in rough shape, we have to
stretch our limited resources as far as they’ll go.

You want to help your athletes run faster, but you
can’t take out a loan to acquire the information.

http://www.CompleteProgramDesignforSprinters.com

People have been getting awesome results with
Complete Program Design for Sprinters. I simplified
the topic to make it easy to understand. So you
can figure it out if you’re a new coach or you can
get really complicated if you’ve been doing this
for a while.

While I firmly believe the $297 price tag is worth
every penny, I also understand that it’s a lot of
money to spend. I didn’t get into coaching to get
rich. But I also know that giving information away
for free devalues it.

So to help put this information in your hands and
help you help your athletes, I’ve lowered the price
to $197. You can even break up your payments into
3 installments spread 30 days apart.

And you’ll be able to access the content immediately.

I just saw the results from the first round of dual
meets in my league. And kids are running blazing
fast times already! I know I can’t afford to make
any mistakes and you probably can’t either.

http://www.CompleteProgramDesignforSprinters.com

To your success,

Latif Thomas

P.S. Here is what one coach had to say about CPD:

“I read dozens of other programs, watched several
videos so much so that my head was spinning and I was
going to just cut and paste one of them as
practice plans.

Thankfully!!!! I finally stumbled upon the
complete program design for sprinters created
by Latif Thomas a couple weeks prior to the season.
It made sense, with a background I have in physical
education and professional athletics the training
of energy systems and hitting times to
determine work load made sense. As we head in to
the big state events my girls are peaking.

Here are the results:

My three hurdlers have all qualified for states
with the top girl setting a school record. My 3
dashers have cut 5-8 tenths off their prior pb.
My top two 300 runners, a freshman and sophmore,
have skyrocketed to the top of the league picking
up crucial points for our 7-1-1 team. I have also
used much of the information learned for training
with our 600 runners who also run the 4×4. At
the State Coaches Invitational our top athlete
won with a pb of 1:39.76 her pb at the beginning
of the season was mid 1:45’s.

I encourage every track coach new and old to use
this program, except for the coaches in my league
because I’m greedy and I like to win!!

Thank you.”

Gardner O’Flynn
Ipswich Girls Indoor Track
Ipswich, MA

http://www.CompleteProgramDesignforSprinters.com

Chameleon Theory essentially states that when
we brand or label people, they take on the
characteristics of the diagnosis.

This is common knowledge in psychology. Mirroring
of positive expectations is known as the Pygmalion
effect and mirroring of negative traits is
known as the Golem effect.

We can use this understanding to facilitate
greater performances in our athletes, regardless
of their current level of achievment.

It simply comes down to understanding how it
works and applying it with consistency and
authority.

Let me give you a personal example.

I started coaching a new team of sprinters last
winter. Coming in I knew my first priority was
to change the culture of the group and raise
the level of expectation. Any coach can come
and give decent workouts. But not every coach can
get their athletes to believe they’re capable
of competing at previously unheard of levels.

(Though my program design ain’t bad either….)

On Day 1 I told the athletes the reason I took
the job was because I knew they were the most
talented group in the state. I told them they’d
all set new personal bests in every event because
I knew they’d work harder than anyone else.

I dismissed all the school records as being inferior
performances not worthy of being talked about
because the talent within the group was far
superior to the records on paper. We spoke only
of achieving goals and I flat out ignored any
negativity or mitigating language.

The results?

- Over the past 15 months every athlete, without
exception, has set new personal bests in every
sprint event.

- A 22 year drought of State Titles was broken.

- 7 new school records have been set.

- The 4×200 team has won back-to-back All State
  Titles and shaved 3.8 seconds off the old
  record in a 15 month span. (A record they said
  couldn’t be broken)

- The 4×400 team chopped 4 seconds off the old
  record this year (versus ~1 second over the
  previous decade)

- The 4×100 team capped off an undefeated season
  by shattering the school record.

Is it because Latif Thomas is the greatest speed coach in the
world?

Hardly. What I do isn’t magic. But it does work.
I’ll even give you full access to what I do and
how I do it. There’s no secret formula. All you
need is the desire to do a little more to help
provide a greater experience for your athletes.

I simply take advantage of the Chameleon Effect.

I know that athletes will take on whichever
characteristics I consistently and repeatedly
feed them.

They have no choice. It’s just how the brain works.

And I have a proven system for doing it.

Our job as coaches is to do what’s best for our
athletes. If we want to change how sports are
coached and bring those ’bad’ coaches into the
light, it starts with us.

We have to be the change we want to inspire in
others. And it starts with getting results.

You can help the greatest number of kids by
becoming a better version of yourself.

In my Complete Program Design for Sprinters resource
I walk you through not only how to write workouts
that get your athletes to run their fastest times
in the biggest meets, but I also show you exactly
where, when and how to use Chameleon Theory to
automatically and unconsciously get your athletes
to raise their level of expectation and compete
at the next level.

The fact that you opened this email and are reading
this now puts you in an elite category. To truly
help your athletes you must make the commitment
to providing them with every opportunity to
achieve their potential.

I’m going to help you do that by giving you a
special price on our two best selling resources.

Just click here and you can start making a greater
impact on your athletes immediately.

- Latif Thomas
 

To develop more explosive and powerful athletes
we all (should) use plyometrics.

But here’s the thing:

They’re dangerous!

And they should be taught using a specific
progression. The progression I think makes
the most sense is one I learned from studying
Vern Gambetta.

The problem is that a frightening number of
coaches do it ass backwards and therefore
should be asked never to work with another
child again.

More specifically, underqualified coaches like
to start their athletes off by doing the exercises
that have the highest nervous system demand,
highest training stress and require the
largest training base.

This means ONLY the most advanced athletes should
be attempting them. They are entirely inappropriate
for beginner athletes. What constitutes a
beginner athlete? Any athlete that has not
satisfactorily moved through the progression
I lay out below.

So the LAST types of plyos any coach should
be ‘teaching’ their athletes are shock jumps,
also known as depth jumps.

These exercises consist of jumping down off of
boxes and/or doing rebound jumps over hurdles
placed at mid thigh height or higher.

Recently I was out at a facility and witnessed
a coach doing possibly the most incredible thing I’ve
ever seen.

If I didn’t know better I’d think some coaches
purposely try to hurt kids. We can’t keep
handing culpability off like a hot potato.

But I digress….

This human had his athletes jump up onto a 24″
plyo box. Then jump UP off the plyo box, attempt
to catch a medicine ball that was tossed higher
than the athlete’s head and then attempt to
land holding the med ball. Then repeat.

Unbelievable.

Maybe these were advanced athletes, you say.

No. They were high school sophomores, I’m told.

There’s more than one way to skin a cat when
it comes to coaching philosophy. But that kind
of approach is just wrong. Is it even debatable?

Some people reading this are nodding their heads
in agreement. Others are ashamed because they’re
doing shock jumps with young kids who have
a training age of 1 or 2.

So to avoid any more additions to the epidemic
of sports injuries created by less than stellar
coaching methods, here is the progression of
plyos that I believe should be followed.

If you have a better way, I’d love to hear it
below.

Don’t let your athletes move on to the next
level of plyo until the meet the standards of
the more basic movement.

To see these progressions taught and performed
correctly, check out Complete Speed Training.

1. Landing - Goal is to teach proper foot strike,
use of the ankle, knee and hip and absorb shock.

2. Stabilization Jumps - Goal is to reinforce
landing technique and increase levels of both
eccentric and stabilization strength

3. Jumping up - Goal is to teach takeoff action
and proper use of the arms.

4. In Place Bounding - Goal is to teach quick
reaction off the ground as well as vertical
displacement of the center of mass/gravity

5. Short Jumps - Goal is to teach horizontal
displacement of the center of mass/gravity

6. Long Jumps - Goal is to add more horizontal
velocity. (Most athletes will not progress
past these movements in the first year of
specific training. Even if taught a proper
progression such as the above!)

7. Shock Jumps

The last form of plyo that should be taught
and certainly not something that athletes should
be doing during preseason or the early preparation
periods.

So there you have the truth about how plyos
should be taught and a little taste of what
your kids’ coaches are doing to them.

Am I crazy? Am I the only one witnessing these
truly dangerous coaching practices? Is there
anyone willing to admit that they’re doing
it wrong?

Is there a solution to this pandemic lack
of modern day coaching knowledge? Should I
just stop complaining and only worry about
what I can control?

Please leave your thoughts below.

- Latif