Episode 15 - Dr. Mike Young on Speed Development, Sprinting, and Lifting for Speed
The Strength Running Podcast
Jason Fitzgerald
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Mike Young is the Director of Research and Performance at North Carolina-based Athletic Lab. A Lead Instructor for both USA Track & Field and USA Weightlifting, he also works with elite athletes and has consulted with the MLS, MLB, NFL, PGA, and NHL.
He has degrees in exercise physiology, coaching science, and biomechanics – not to mention his prowess publishing multiple peer-reviewed journal articles.
Mike has coached seven national champions in Track & Field and at four Division I NCAA programs.
He’s on the Strength Running Podcast today to talk about how distance runners can benefit from speed development – from specific workouts to other ways of getting faster (it’s not all sprint work).
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| 0:00.0 | Ready, set go. |
| 0:04.0 | This is episode 15 with the director of research and performance at Athletic Lab, |
| 0:10.0 | a PhD in biomechanics, a coach to seven track and field national champions, and a lead instructor |
| 0:15.7 | for coaching education for USA track and field and USA Weightlifting, Dr. Mike Young. Okay, we are all in for a treat today. This is a very special episode with one of the most |
| 0:40.5 | widely respected and well known, |
| 0:43.1 | strengthened conditioning and sprinting experts |
| 0:46.0 | in the world. |
| 0:47.3 | Dr. Mike Young has degrees in exercise physiology, |
| 0:50.7 | biomechanics, and coaching science. |
| 0:53.0 | He's a USA track and field and USA Weightlifting lead instructor. |
| 0:57.0 | He's worked with everyone from recreational athletes |
| 1:00.0 | to elite track and weightlifting competitors, |
| 1:02.0 | as well as consulting with the MLS, |
| 1:05.0 | NFL, MLB, NHL, and PGA. |
| 1:08.7 | If you weren't keeping track, that's professional soccer, football, baseball, hockey, and golf. |
| 1:14.0 | He's authored or co-authored multiple peer-reviewed journal articles, lectured all around the world, |
| 1:19.6 | and he's written two books. |
| 1:21.2 | Mike Young makes me feel lazy. And that's a good thing. There's a lot to |
| 1:24.9 | learn from him and his pursuit of excellence I think is an inspiration to us all. |
| 1:30.8 | Our conversation today is about speed development, how to improve your |
| 1:35.4 | maximal velocity, or in other words your top-end speed, the fastest that you're able to go, |
| 1:40.4 | and how that's a valuable asset even if you're a marathoner. |
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