Category - Lower Body Power

New Zealand All Blacks Speed Training with Speed Bands

Beauden Barrett Speed Training with Speed Bands The New Zealand All Blacks use our Speed Bands under the guidance of their leading Strength and Conditioning Coach Nicholas Gill. He has worked with the All Blacks for over 10…

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Develop Explosive Lower Body Power with these 4 Plyometric Exercises

Plyometric training with Speed Bands is a great way to both boost performance in a broad variety of sports, and take your speed and power to the next level. When you train with resistance bands to add additional…

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Increase Acceleration Speed with these two Exercises

Athletes of all sports must always continue to work on improving their speed. Sprint speed is broken down into two elements – stride length and stride frequency. If you want to run faster, you must work on improving…

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Develop Hip Flexor Strength with these 2 Exercises

Before an intense speed training session, athletes should always perform a thorough warm to avoid injury. The purpose of an effective warm up is to generate heat in the muscles and prepare for movements specific to your sport.…

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How to Increase Speed and Agility for Football

If your sport requires many directional changes then developing multi-directional speed is key. You must have good coordination, quick feet and balance to change direction and move on quickly. Moving through the cones & hurdles at speed like…

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One Exercise Guaranteed to Increase your Speed

One of the best methods to increase your speed is Resisted Sprints—sprints with some sort of resistance to slow you down. Resisted sprints build lower-body power and cause more muscles to fire. Over time, you’ll be able to…

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Speed Training Workout by Crossmaglen Players

GAA sports are the most popular throughout Ireland. Today strength, power, speed and agility are the attributes a serious player must have to excel in their chosen GAA sport. Competitive players must have powerful quads, hamstrings and glutes…

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Dragon Crawl with Speed Bands to Build Strength and Muscle Endurance

If you are looking for an exercise that will simultaneously build strength and muscular endurance in your legs, core, chest, triceps and shoulders then it’s time to get on the floor and start dragon crawling. Sports Performance Benefits of the…

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Quick Feet Ladder Drills with Speed Bands

Quick feet ladder drills are extremely important because they give you a chance to work on so many different areas of athletic development. As you watch the drills in the video you can see how we are able…

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High Knees with Speed Bands – Activate your Quick Twitch Muscle Fibres

How will Speed Bands make you Faster? Speed Bands apply tension to your muscles through resistance. In speed training the aim is to move your own body weight as fast as possible which will activate the fast twitch…

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Glute Activation Exercises that Increase Explosive Power

If you are an athlete and your sport requires you to be able to perform powerful movements with the lower body, like jumping, sprinting and bounding, then this blog post is for you. To run fast, jump high,…