Two of the big rocks of acceleration that we teach our youth athletes is body position and force into the ground (pushing back into the ground)
Here are a few snippets of some of the progressions we use in our current youth program
1) Resistance High Knee March – teaching them to push harder into the ground through a fundamental technique drill
2) Triple Extension – teaching knee and hip drive in the first step
3) Sled Run – A light resistance to encourage maintaining body position and more force into the ground
4) Falling Start – falling into a good body position and using the reaction of our leg to explode out