🏃‍♀️ QB Consultant + BACK on track…

What’s up y’all? Cici here.

Welcome back to More Her Speed, a weekly no-BS newsletter all about women in coaching.

A Day with the QB’s

Last week I got to be a part of a really cool opportunity…

We have a long-standing relationship with Jordan Palmer, a really great QB Coach that had his time in the league as a player as well.

He now works primarily with quarterbacks during their preparation for the NFL Combine, and has worked with Joe Burrow, Josh Allen, & Sam Darnold just to name a few.

We train his combine guys on the speed side, and recently he got involved with the upcoming XFL season.. So he invited the team out to connect with a few players and data analysts.

The quarterbacks did a skill work, film review, and biomechanical analysis.

Assessment and prescription are the foundations of our business so being there for these tests added value and insight for us, as we look to the upcoming NFL combine class.

Get Back on Track!

I stumbled upon an intriguing (but probably controversial) LA Times article this week.

The article talks about high school football players spending their off-season running track.

It isn't out of the norm for a high school athlete to play multiple sports if the seasons line up:

Some of the best football players I’ve seen also played basketball or ran track & you could see it in their movements on the field.

The reward outweighs the risk: you’re never going to be a worse athlete by getting faster.

If you went to a high school football game, you could point out a kid who runs track due to the difference in speed off the line.

There’s a reason track athletes start in blocks, and it's also a cue I give to my athletes (regardless of sport).

“Use the ground as a trigger” is the cue I use, and it is very similar to the purpose of track blocks.

Pushing into the ground to get out into a sprint creates a huge advantage.

Creating powerful starts allows for separation, which is a major factor in determining the winner of a foot race between a receiver and a DB.

One of our athletes at Spellman Performance, Jalen Lewis, plays high school football out here in Cali with aspirations of playing at the college level. He also runs track in the offseason.

We can see the difference with guys like him. He’s having a great season and a great recruiting cycle. I think it definitely has something to do with the way he spends his offseason.

Working on that skill during the off season can change an in-season stat line dramatically.

Quote of the Week

“You can’t speed up what you can’t slow down”

-Jevaughn Pinnock

It’s a deceleration quote… and if y’all haven’t tapped into that man’s course yet idk what you’re doing 😭

Appreciate y’all,

Cici

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