The method

Performance and fitness.One method behind every goal.

Chasing a time, getting ready for a season, or just wanting to move better than you did last year — a coach here works the same way for all of it. They measure what your body is actually doing, teach you what to change, build the training around it, and retest. You stop guessing whether it is working, and you stop looking like everyone else who is just training harder.

What you leave with
Scorecard · Dana R.First test · Jan 14
The eight scored out of 1003 flagged
Running efficiencyFix
How much of your effort goes forward
Ground contact · turnover
BiomechanicsFix
Posture, arm action, foot strike
Touchdown · shin angle · trunk lean
Speed developmentWatch
Top speed, and how long it takes to reach it
Flying 20 · 40-yard dash
QuicknessIn range
First step, reaction, the first three strides
10-yard split
Change of directionWatch
What the cut costs you, and how fast it comes back
The RSP 45
PowerIn range
Explosiveness off the ground, one leg and two
Vertical · broad · single-leg broad
StrengthFix
Whether your body holds the positions the rest need
Coach assessment · film
FitnessIn range
How you move and feel, not just how you race
Session load · recovery
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Your coach’s read. Two things are holding the rest back — where the foot lands and what the shin does at contact. Fix those and speed moves on its own.

4Steps in the loop
8Ways to train
FilmedEvery athlete, every time
ScoredSo progress is a number
The method

Four steps. Then we do it again.

This is not a program you finish. It is a loop that runs for as long as you train with a coach, and every turn of it starts with a measurement.

Step 01
Measure

Timed, tested and filmed from the side in slow motion. The same tests every time, so a number in March means something against a number in September.

Step 02
Teach

Your coach shows you what your body is actually doing — on film, with the angles drawn on it — and gives you two or three things to fix, in order.

Step 03
Build

Drills to correct the mechanics, then speed and strength built on top. That order matters more than anything else on this page.

Step 04
Retest

Weeks later, the same tests on the same equipment. You see both side by side, so progress is a number rather than a feeling.

Why the order matters: running more on poor mechanics just makes you better at running badly — and it is how people get hurt. Fix how you move, and the speed you build on top holds up when it counts.
What gets measured

The eye can't see this. A camera can.

At full speed your foot is on the ground for less than two tenths of a second. No coach alive can judge what happens in that window by watching. So nobody guesses — it gets filmed and measured.

Touchdown positionHow far in front of the hips the foot lands, as a fraction of leg length
Braking shin angleDegrees the shin is angled forward at contact
Trunk leanPosture through the drive phase
Ground contact timeHow long the foot stays down, in hundredths of a second
TurnoverSteps per second, against the range for your age
Knee drive & heel recoveryWhat the back leg does on its way through
Times & jumps10 yd, 40 yd, flying 20, vertical and broad jump
SHIN 9° FORWARD
> Form Lab · one frame at touchdown, measured
What you leave with

A scorecard. Then proof it moved.

The eight ways to train, each scored out of 100 from your marks and your film. Two or three get flagged — that is what you work on. Weeks later you run it again, and the retest shows what the work did. Both screens are drawn in full on the See inside page.

What a coach will not compromise on

Four rules, every session.

01
Measured, not guessed

You are timed, tested and filmed. If a coach tells you something is wrong, they can show you the frame it is wrong in.

So you never have to take anyone's word for it.

02
Mechanics first

How you move gets fixed before you are asked to do more. Change the movement and the speed comes with it, because it was built on something.

So progress doesn't fall apart under pressure.

03
Taught, not just trained

You leave each session knowing what you are working on and why, explained in plain words rather than jargon.

So you can coach yourself between sessions.

04
Proved, not claimed

Every score on your card traces back to a mark or a frame of film with a date on it. Nothing is a coach's opinion of how you looked.

So the progress is yours, not a story.

Wherever you are starting

The same method, scaled.

Someone who has never trained and someone chasing a season need the same mechanics and completely different loading. The loop does not change. What goes in it does.

Starting out
Learn to move

Mechanics get technical, in plain language. Structured sessions, how to sprint properly, and strength that fits what your body can hold.

Training for something
Learn to compete

Work specific to your event or sport, real loading, and how to prepare for and recover from the thing you are training for.

Chasing a number
Train to perform

Full programming built around a season and a calendar, with marks that hold up when someone checks them.

Run it once on yourself.

The assessment is this whole method run one time, with the scorecard to keep. Every coach on this platform is taught to deliver it the same way.

Run Speed Coach · a Run Speed Performance company · Carrollton, TX