Training for Power and Speed Series

In the Weight Room

Learn how to significantly improve power and speed capacity and dramatically impact performance

From this course, you will gain an advanced understanding of:

  • The limitations of current common practice
  • How coordination restraints effect power speed performance
  • The hip extension knee extension relationship
  • The hip flexion extension relationship
  • Biarticular hamstrings
  • Force as a vector quantity
  • Muscle sequencing
  • Lumbopelvic control
  • Segmental positioning


  • How weight training can have a positive effect on speed performance
  • How weight training can have a negative effect on speed performance

  • “Paul Balsom is the power and speed expert”
    Dr Neil McCarthy, Head of Development, English Premiership Rugby
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