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“I wish I knew more about the rotational aspect of sprinting in school. I feel like this course has filled those gaps. Looking at sprinting in a 3D aspect is a game changer for me!”

“I’m a Masters track and field athlete, personal trainer, and running coach, and I’ve had the privilege of working with Joel for the past five years. Thanks to his guidance, I’ve reached new heights in my career, culminating in being named the 2023 World Masters Female Athlete of the Year and the 2023 USATF Masters Track & Field Athlete of the Year, after setting 9 world records—and 6 more in 2024. Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to train with Joel using a variety of his methods—from strength training designed to enhance running performance to high jump and javelin techniques. But after completing his Sprint Acceleration Essentials course, I’ve gained a whole new understanding of sprinting. The course helped me grasp the rotational nature of human movement and how constraint-based speed training can accelerate sprinting performance. What I love about this course is that it empowers coaches to help athletes solve movement problems unique to their own bodies. Joel teaches how to analyze video footage of an athlete’s sprinting technique and provides actionable drills to improve things like timing, gravity use, and the natural rotational flow of movement. It’s been a game-changer for me to replace the repetitive, boring drills I’ve done for the past 40 years with dynamic, fun movement patterns—especially the constraint-based speed training, which helps me truly feel my body in motion and find solutions that work for me. I’m excited to continue using the principles I’ve learned in this course in my own training, and I’m looking forward to applying them with my clients. This course isn’t just for coaches—it’s also perfect for Masters athletes, many of whom are self-coached, but are looking for new ways to get faster. If you’re an athlete looking to break through plateaus or simply want to improve your sprinting technique, I highly recommend Joel’s Sprint Acceleration Essentials course.”

“Joel did it again with this one! Being able to learn from Joel's 20 years of experience and everything that he has come up with for that silly of a price is UNREAL. Like you could really spend 10-15 years training your coaches eye, coming up with constraints and understanding what biomechanical actions matter for elastic sprinting ability while going through trial & error OR you can just take a shortcut, eliminate the error and learn it within a week from Joel. Again, I highly recommend this to anyone interested in speed training. If you don't adopt these principles & take this information served to you on a silver plate you're honestly wasting time.”

“Joel has a tremendous knowledge base on Sprinting. His ability to deliver content might be one of the best in the business. His Sprint Essentials Course is thorough look at the running cycle. The way he presents his materials gives trainers a great lens in what to look for and how to improve each area. So many gems within this course and the materials are applicable immediately. Highly recommend to trainers and runners that want to improve their running skills and get faster. ”

“I’ve been fortunate to know Joel for a few years now. Through getting to pick his brain in person and from listening to his podcast, he has always made me think more, and think differently as a coach. This course was no different. It’s not a cookie cutter course that tells you to do XYZ with your athletes. It challenges you to think more about why someone moves the way they do and what drills and exercises might help that person enhance their movement qualities. Overall I would 100% recommend this course to anyone in the S&C / Performance world. This course will challenge and help any coach who is looking to improve their craft and thinking skills. ”

“Most online resources I've seen approach acceleration development by teaching which shapes *to put athletes in*, which power qualities or muscle groups need to be developed with resistance training, or which pieces of equipment to buy (sleds, 1080, etc.). These are all fine recommendations, but what happens when you're dealing with an advanced athlete: one who has already done 10 years of trying all that stuff, and they aren't getting faster? Or what happens when an athlete just can't get what you are trying to say? Sprint Acceleration Essentials grounds acceleration training philosophy into two main frameworks: Differential Learning and Constraints-Lead Learning. By changing the acceleration programming process into one of allowing athletes to find their own internal awareness of the solutions to acceleration problems, they can come away with something that outlasts the coach: the ability to accelerate with high quality in a variety of circumstances (race day, practice, in soccer, etc.). Anecdotally; as a Master's sprinter who also trains athletes, I use a lot of the recommendations in this course to reliably improve acceleration for my athletes, and have improved my own acceleration dramatically using the principles in this course. For example, my own time to 30 meters improved by about 0.2s within a few sessions, most of which came in the first 10 meters, after implementing some of the training in this course. The reason is simple: this course teaches the coach how to facilitate *the athlete* to own their own quality acceleration, while other courses I have seen typically emphasize training elements to dictate to athletes in the hopes that they listen and get better, which doesn't seem to work well in the long run, in my opinion.”

“The course was well laid out and presented what I needed to know concisely but thoroughly. I would highly recommend it.”

“2nd course I have taken from Coach Smith. Both are informative, well organized, and are applicable to coaching at the high school level. Overviews include detailed discussions cover a broad array of topics, include video analysis, and workout programming. I would love to see a course covering sprint mechanics for upright running and more sport specific programming. This was worth both my time and money. ”

“Great insights into Acceleration mechanics. ”