SpeedRunner: 4 Weeks to Your Fastest Leg Speed In Any Sport

SpeedRunner presents a 4-week training plan designed to increase running speed for athletes across any sport, age, gender, experience level, and goal. Coach Pete Magill explains how targeting the neuromuscular system and strengthening muscle and connective tissue builds speed, strength, endurance, agility, coordination, balance, proprioception, and explosive power. In competitive sports—from team sports like football, soccer, basketball, and baseball to individual sports like distance running, track, and triathlon—success often comes down to tenths of a second. Magill developed this program over decades of coaching athletes ranging from sprinters to marathon runners. He has led his club to two dozen US National Masters Championships in road running and cross country, and holds five USA Masters Cross Country Runner of the Year titles plus multiple American and world age-group records. Beyond the core 4-week program, the book includes speed-only training options, once-a-week speed work for distance runners, and single-day sessions focused on injury prevention and whole-body strength.