Today’s episode features John Garrish, director of athletic development & performance at North Broward Preparatory School in Coconut Creek, Florida, and the school’s head track and field coach. John has previously served as the Director of Athletic Performance with the Florida Rugby Union’s High-Performance Program 7’s team, and has been involved in numerous other strength and sport coaching roles. He also serves as the National High School Strength Coaches Association Regional Board Member for the Southeast.

John is a passionate, creative and detail oriented coach, who distributes his methods freely through his social media outlets. At North Broward prep, John has the challenges of teaching speed and athletic movement to large groups of athletes at a time. In doing so, he has implemented a variety of unique mini-hurdle variations with arm position, as well as hand and finger positioning, these each having unique impacts on the athletes. John is a tremendous compiler of data and sprint images, and it was a joy to pick his brain on his speed training implementation and discoveries.

On the show today, John covers his management of the weight room as North Broward and how he manages large groups of athletes with a small support staff. He describes his use of gallops and various skips as an important part of his warm-up process, and then gets into all of the mini-hurdle speed constraints in his program, which is a true highlight. This was a fantastic episode on speed training for not just the high school athlete, but any athlete seeking improved speed and explosive ability.

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