This week’s guest is JB Morin, a French researcher doing some of the best, and most applied work in the world in regards to sprinting and jumping.

JB has produced, and been involved with, some landmark studies that are helping track and speed coaches to understand more about what makes elite athletes so fast, and how we can train this type of athleticism.

Today, we’re going to talk about some awesome research and application on speed, acceleration and vertical jump training. Topics include:

• Force-Velocity profiling in jumping
• Over-speed jumping
• Training the ankles for jumping and sprinting
• Acceleration efficiency
• Heavy sled sprints
• And more!

There were a few cool pieces that I picked up in this interview that I actually went and used myself immediately in the week following this podcast recording. One of the things I did some heavy sled training in the weightroom, combined with the Freelap BLE timing system, and found an instant and noticeable improvement in my sprint acceleration ability 2 days later. I am most definitely an athlete who lacks force in my acceleration, and if you listen to the interview, you’ll know why this is just the ticket for so many athletes.

Giving the CNS what it needs, when you do it right, has instant ramifications.

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