This week’s guest is Adam Feit, Director of Sports Performance for Reach Your Potential Training (RYPT) and master class coach at Precision Nutrition. Adam has worked at every level of physical preparation, from youth up to the professional level. He also created the Complete Jumps Training System for coaches.

I had heard of Adam, not only through the Complete Jumps product, but also through Ken Clark’s mentioning of the unique speed training approach at RYPT, as well as seeing great tweets on Adam’s coaching ideals down at a seminar at ALTIS.

This podcast revolves around Adam’s philosophies on speed and jump development, particularly in young athletes. Many of my guests are high level track and field coaches, or performance coaches who work largely with collegiate and professional athletes. Adam has not only that experience, but also has years of training developmental athletes. As Curtis Taylor of Oregon mentioned in a previous podcast, the more age groups in the sport you can work with, the better coach you become.

Adam is a great guy to talk to about jump training. After doing a podcast with Lee Taft, and looking more into everything Lee does on speed (have an intimate understanding of game movement, and build that outward into speed work), it makes good sense to take the same care with jumping and its relation to team sport movement. One of Adam’s unique exercise models is in the realm of hybrid jump training, which unlocks a new world of physical prep possibility.

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