Why can the same not be said for foot rythm training?
Why dont we have sprinters stomping their feet up and down, like a flamenco dancer, as a training stimulas?
If the rythm theory works for the upper body, why does it not work for the feet?
What would be the foot drill version of the speed ball?
There are plenty of basketball players who use a foot speed drill, where-by their feet are shuffling at around five beats per second.
Still, the leg/foot versions of the rythm drills don’t necesarily translate to faster track times. I’m not sure I can just buy in to this speed ball thing.
Also, why on earth would cycling your hands through the air not be as effective as the speed ball? Is it the sound the speed ball makes that is so important? I’m not so sure about that/ Look at the rythmic speed sounds that all tap dancers, Irish dancers and flamenco dancers must hear, but none of them ever ran a fast track time.
We need to be more spacific about what the speed ball supposedly does for sprinting, and how/why.
Also; anyone that is athletic can cycle their legs at five strides per second whilst holding on to parallel bars. But some of those same people would not vcover much ground per second in a sprint.
In my opinion, it doesnt add up at all. So some of the sprinters improved a lot. That’s because their program had discipline and a disciplinarian coach.
Alan wells has since said that he wouldn’t do the speed ball workouts if he had a second chance, for it caused tightness in his shoulders.
Also, Margarat Wells (wife of Alan) has long since moved away from her earlier training theories. She now has a website, and she has become like every other darn sports science ‘guru’ of the nineties and naughties. It’s all powerlifting and weightlifting now, with her and everyone else.
What’s with it then?