09/02/2026
If an athlete wants to get faster, they need to sprint.
No drill or exercise replaces actually sprinting. But simply doing more “speed work” without understanding the athlete doesn’t tell us the whole story either.
Strength, power, coordination, movement strategy, training history and readiness can all influence how speed is expressed.
That’s why evaluation is part of the development process at Roberts Performance.
Movement assessment, coaching observation and objective testing—including force plate data—give us more information about the athlete in front of us. No single test or metric provides every answer, but together they help us make better programming decisions.
The same applies to coaching. Athletes don’t need a running checklist of cues in their head every time they sprint. Sometimes the better coaching decision is creating the right task, giving them an opportunity to solve it and letting them move.
Sprint. Develop. Reassess. Adjust.
That’s what structured speed development looks like.
