Speed Academy

06/03/2026

Good luck to all Speed Academy athletes in your fixtures this weekend.

The hard work is done.

Apply the advantage.

20/02/2025

COMING SOON TO POOL!

Small Group Adult Functional Training

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12/02/2025

🚀 Exciting News from Speed Academy! 🚀
We're thrilled to announce that Speed Academy is now offering small group training sessions at PH Gym, Pool-in Wharfedale! 🏋️‍♂️🏃‍♀️
Is your child passionate about becoming faster and more athletic for their chosen sport? Our expert small group coaching will help them realise their potential with training programmes designed specifically for young athletes to enhance strength, speed, agility, and overall athletic performance.
📅 When: Mon, Tue, Wed evenings 📍 Where: PH Gym, Pool-in Wharfedale
Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to give your child the confidence they need to excel in their sport. Spaces are limited to 6 per session so don’t hang around.
Sign up now and take advantage of our 28 day trial for £49!
For more information and to register, visit our website www.speedacademy.co.uk or message direct on here.
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09/10/2024

Half Term Football Speed Camp!

Is your young player (14-18yrs) ready to take their speed to the next level?

Don't miss out on this opportunity to receive expert coaching in a fun environment at a great facility.

Come and join us on 31st October:
Yarnbury Rugby Club
2pm - 5pm

Master the fundamentals of speed.
- Acceleration,
- Top Speed Running
- Explosive First Step

Link to details and how to register below.

Everyone can get faster. Speed Academy will show you how in this 1/2 day camp for players aged 14-18.

17/07/2020

Everything now in place for the Speed Academy Football Preseason Programme.
Top quality Werksan plates, smooth spinning bar to protect wrists, DC blocks to lift from.
With flat, plush football pitches within 50yds who needs a gym? Keep an eye out for more details on our Preseason Programme.

Thanks to Absolute Performance for supplying in double quick time despite weights being like rocking horse droppings in lockdown.

02/01/2019

Happy New Year to you all!

If anyone's a parent or coach of adolescent kids going through growth spurts you'll understand what a nightmare it can be. "Managing the storm" I once heard it called.

Well, at Speed Academy, this is the main demographic and accounts for about 80% of our young athletes. Most of whom are at professional academies but still require expert help.

On January 20th, for the first time, I'm running a workshop at Trinity University. I'll be letting loose all the information I've gathered over the past 5yrs and the systems I've devised to deal with everything from Osgood Schlatter's lesions to tight hamstrings.
Please tag or share with anyone you know that is involved in youth sports.

Cheers

If you're a football coach having growth related issues with one or more of your players, then this workshop will answer all your questions: What can I do to stop them from getting injured? Is there anything I can do to help them once they are injured? Will they get their strength/speed/coordination...

16/11/2018

We always try to end our youth sessions with some fun competition.
Thanks for this upgrade on a classic.

29/10/2018

Numbers are 1 dimensional. Sport is 3, 4, 5+ dimensional.

It’s easy to get excited about your numbers improving. Whether it’s your 10m sprint time, your 1RM squat, vertical jump or any other test.
They provide information, but should NEVER be the focus of your training.

Sport is random, reactive and chaotic with many things vying for your attention at once.
Yes get stronger.
Yes get faster.
Yes do more.
But the goal is being able to produce higher quality movement and decision making under greater levels of stress and to be able to do it with consistency week in week out.

24/10/2018

“Sport... (is) a problem solving activity in which movements are used to produce the necessary solutions” Mel Siff-Supertraining

Movement mastery should be the primary training objective.

16/10/2018

You have no idea how competitive this game gets.
We use it as a general warm up after foam rolling to get them switched on.
Massive bragging rights for the rest of the session and they usually ask to repeat at the end as well.
It’s obviously great fun, but so many transferable skills being developed here that are great for football but not necessarily developed by playing football.

10/10/2018

Movement Quality before Movement Capacity.

Volume is easy. To do something with purpose and intensity is a whole lot tougher.