Are you working hard to run faster, move quicker, and boost your athletic performance but not sure where to start? Whether you're searching for the best speed exercises, workouts to improve sprint speed, or wondering how to increase speed for sports, it all begins with one thing: a clear understanding of your current performance.

At Atlas High Performance Centre, we offer Performance Assessments for Personal Training that break down exactly what you need to improve speed, acceleration, and overall fitness

​When it comes to youth sports and physical development, many parents and coaches focus on skills training and general fitness. But one often overlooked yet highly beneficial area is sprint training. Sprinting isn't just about running fast; it's about building strength, coordination, and most importantly, confidence. Whether your child is involved in football, basketball, soccer, or simply wants to stay active, sprint training offers both physical and mental benefits that last a lifetime.

In this article, we’ll explore the numerous advantages of sprint training for children, including how it improves athletic performance and builds confidence - both on and off the field. And, if you're a parent of a young athlete reading this, you can sign up for your FREE speed school trial below.

At Atlas High Performance, our Speed School sessions are all about getting athletes faster, more confident, better able to change direction and also improving their movement abilities on the pitch. We've taken the best parts of coaches like Les Spellman, Tony Holler and the guys at Speedworks and structured our sessions around that to give young athletes exposure to the best programme you can find. Here are 5 of our top exercises for increasing sprint speed and learning how to accelerate better.

After discussing energy systems as a whole and briefly introducing the phosphagen system - read about it again here if you missed it - we move onto part 2. This, in my own opinion is where things get confusing. Our main priority here will be to introduce the glycolytic system. This series of reactions happens WITHOUT the presence of oxygen. Here's where we introduce the famed lactate for the first time properly and talk about it - it is your friend not your enemy. If you can get a handle on this section, the rest of it is easy. This article is a bit biochemistry heavy so if you're not a fan of it, I suggest you look away now!

To be fit - "of a suitable quality, standard, or type to meet the required purpose" . So, before we can think about getting fitter, we must first define the required purpose effectively.

As a strength and conditioning coach & sport scientist, I'm well aware that people perceive my main role within a sports team or with a client is to improve 'fitness'. While this is true, the term fitness itself means so much more. Very rarely do people specify which part of fitness they want to improve or how they are going to do it. Getting stronger, faster, leaner, more powerful could also classify as getting fitter. For the most part though, and it's going to make up the majority of this article, we'll be talking about the commonly thought about 'fit'. Being able to run further, being able to run faster for longer, being able to do something for longer before being tired, also known as 'work capacity'. What is it, how do we define it properly but most importantly, how can we train it properly.