Speed & Strength for Youth Athletes — Recording + Handout

Missed the live session? The recording is available now.

60 minutes on the foundations of speed and acceleration for team sport coaches and PE teachers. Five pillars: reactive foot mechanics, postural integrity, explosive starts, strength as coordination, and integrated training.

Includes the full recording, the session handout, and the coaching cues reference table.

Watch at your own pace. Keep it as a reference.

£29 · Delivered by email within 24 hours.

"James cuts through complexity and brings the focus back to what really matters. It's not about adding more, but about understanding the essentials — in movement, in coaching, and in communication. If coaches keep developing, athletes develop."

— Christian Stern, Head Coach, National Youth Centre Kaiserslautern (German Badminton Federation)

"It helped clean up and simplify the message with a client this morning. It also got me to be more creative in delivering simple drills to illustrate the principles. Always beneficial to be taken outside of our personal bubble."

"Keep it fun — working together with a partner helps create learning opportunities with communication and collaboration as well as the technical sprint work. Implicit learning through games. Equipment and environment (grass) are useful tools." — Andy

"Long and strong — the image of playdoh vs. bridge, and using the straight line extension principle to illustrate and rehab with. This will be very useful with rehab patients and growing teenagers." — Jo

"Build strength from the foot up and the first two steps are essential — make it variable and fun. The suspension bridge analogy allied with the images of static postures helped me make the connection between posture and diagnostic identification of weakness. I will use these diagnostically rather than as a training tool." — Andrew

About James

Head coach of Excelsior Athletic Development Club, Devon. 30 years coaching with several National Governing Bodies (FA, RFU, British Fencing, England Golf). Has supported 12 athletes through to the Olympics and Paralympics. Author of four books, including the Get Stronger / Run Faster / Jump Higher trilogy. Writer of the Coaches’ Corner newsletter, read by 1,600+ coaches every fortnight. Coach education coordinator at GAIN Swim.

Still coaching. Still competing as a masters weightlifter. Still learning.