Today’s episode features Michael Zweifel, owner of “Buiding Better Athletes” performance center in Dubuque, Iowa.  

Michael was a key contributor on the incredibly popular agility, perception and sport movement roundtable with himself, Shawn Myzska, and Scott Salwasser.  Michael is a CSCS, IYCA certified practitioner, and was the all time NCAA leading receiver with 463 receptions in his playing days at University of Dubuque.  

Michael is not only one of the most well studied individuals on methods of improving athletic speed, jumping and overall power (you may have read his contributions to Just Fly Sports in this regard over the last few years), but he is also a field-leader in transferable training methods to on-field reactive ability.  As we’ve discussed in past episodes, great speed and strength doesn’t win games if athletes can’t react properly to their opponents.

Michael is continually pushing the envelope in this area, particularly in the target of the private sector and scholastic athletes.  He is continually finding new methods to give athletes chances to improve their reactive power through a variety of creative methods, many of which you can catch on his Twitter and Instagram profiles.  

Michael’s talks on our last roundtable were really intriguing and brought up a number of new questions that I was excited to follow up with for this solo episode.  Topics today will be the relation of linear speed to on field success, transitional speed, quantifying training for sport speed, agility, learning enviornments, building reactive warmups, and more.  

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