64 children aged between 13-16 yrs old turned up to UCD (University College Dublin) to improve themselves at Gaelic Games. Each kid experienced top quality coaching in: strength and conditioning, nutrition, football skills, hurling skills, speed testing and best of all speed training!
 
From the start I quickly realised that the young enthusiasts had not received [...]

Speed Training for Team Sports - What is it?
Well first the questions that needs to be asked is - speed for what? Speed for a 100m sprint? this could be the ability to accelerate and reach top speed as quickly as possible, maintain this maximum velocity for as long as possible (usually 30mts) and then decelerate as [...]