Speed Training Zone

If you’re an active basketball player, I have some GREAT news for you.

Adam Linkenauger, a highly decorated NCAA Div. 1 athlete, is about to release a brand-new basketball training program called Freak Scoring Machine.

This program is designed to help you take your scoring skills to the next level.

Adam has also enlisted the help of  some awesome coaches to make the program.

For a preview of the program, click here.

Doesn’t it look like an awesome program?

Hey gang.

We’ve just put up a brand new sports quotes section on our sister website (Vertical Jump Zone).

Some sections are complete, and we are working hard on the remaining sections.

Reading inspirational sports quotes is an excellent way to ramp up your sports training workouts.

Take a look and lemme know what you think!

It may seem a little weird to talk about basketball training on a speed training blog, but I’ve noticed that there are quite a few basketball players among my subscribers.

I just wanted to let my basketball players know about a trainer called Taylor Allan.

I have some of his programs, and they are excellent.

Having played basketball for several years (even at the collegiate level), I have been through countless basketball training programs, most of which sucked big time.

It’s therefore refreshing to see great programs that actually help basketball players.

Taylor Allan’s program are cutting-edge, and you will get great results from them.

If you’re serious about basketball, you need to check him out.

If you play basketball, you know the importance of having a great vertical jump.

My good friend Adam Linkenauger, who has a 50 inch vertical jump, has just released a new program called Freak Jump Technique Reloaded.

As a former superstar NCAA Div I high jumper, Adam knows A LOT about jumping technique, and this program will teach you how to jump higher by simply tweaking your jump technique.

As a basketball player, you definitely need to check out this new vertical jump program.

Here is our Freak Jump Technique review.

It’s interesting that athletes training for speed routinely make a lot of errors and mistakes in their training.

You would think that with all of the information on the the Internet at our fingertips, we would simply be able to put together the perfect speed and quickness training plans, time and time again.

But the truth is, there’s lots of athletes out there who are still too slow, too weak and even worse, they’re not getting any faster.

Heck, I’ve even seen athletes get slower by following alleged “speed training programs”.

So how you can avoid these common pitfalls?

As an athlete who wants nothing but to get faster and quicker, how can you make sure that your training programs deliver?

Well, a good place for you to start is to learn these 5 common speed training mistakes, and avoid them at all cost:

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And I was off!

In my brand-new Nike Free’s, with my IPod bumping to some new Chamillionaire.

I made a left out of my driveway as I began my first jog in more than 3 years (but I then quickly stopped because I had an undeniable urge to write this article)…

Why has it been 3 years?

Well, you see, for the previous 3 years, I had been training for speed.

And contrary to popular belief, running or jogging for long-distances has no place in a real speed training or vertical jump training program.

I’ll explain…

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Here it is…

The missing piece to increasing your running speed:

Your FEET.

Simple, right?

It doesn’t take a genius to see that the feet would HAVE to be important in increasing someone’s running speed.

They’re involved in every step, they are the connector between the ground and the rest of your body, and simply, everything goes through your feet.

I’ll explain…

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