Lost Art Of Coaching Speed

It seems coaching speed and agility is a lost art form.

Seriously.

Much like the rest of the whole 'strength and conditioning'
industry, we have become far too content with little more than
hard work.

We make our young athletes work hard.

We make them sweat.

We make them tired and sore.

And we think we've done a good job.

How incredibly wrong we all are.

Speed and Agility, just like every other portion of the
training pie, is an art form.

It's a skill that can and must be taught.

Repeat sprinting.

Random cone drills.

Over-speed devices.

Towing implements.

All fine stuff in certain doses and at particular points of
development, but with no definitive system of teaching or
progression, it just amounts to 'stuff'.

Imagine if we did that in the school system?

Had no defined curriculum for kids to follow.

No progressions or building blocks of learning.

Students (and teachers) would be lost.

They would learn virtually nothing at all.

They could never ascend in their knowledge or eventually
master anyone particular subject or area of study.

And we all know that's true.

We would look at the school system as a mockery if there was
no progressive learning process in place.

And yet, here we are.

Making young athletes sweat.

Making them work hard.

Making them sore.

Without any real system or developmental scope in place.

And people wonder why I consider most of our industry a mockery.

Speed and Agility training SHOULD part of a progressive system that builds championship
young athletes.

What's your system?