Feel w/Variable Movement Speeds⬇️

As movement goes from non-existent to high speed, your sense of feel goes from internal/muscle based to external and rhythm based.

AKA you can consciously control movements that are slow or non-existent (isometric in nature). You cannot consciously control movements that occur at high speeds.

The lens through which you view each is different.

Take a 40 yard dash for example.

You don’t want to be thinking about making sure your right foot supinates upon landing and pronates upon leaving. Instead, you may have a prominent “feel” thought that gets your rhythm/feel right.

“Pull the ground”.

“Relax the face”.

Global cues.

These span across nearly all athletic endeavors; throwing a baseball, serving a tennis ball, your jumpshot, etc.

But when movement occurs very slowly, these can be consciously accounted for. We can break down global movement patterns into very small and isolated chunks to work on specific aspects of said movement.

We can work on the command center of your body.

But if ALL you ever do is one or the other, then the other loses efficiency.

Because of the push for “sports specific” training as of late, it seems as though the “high speed” end of the spectrum is getting somewhat abused. Instead of separating your skill work from your physical training, they try to mesh the two because to the eye it appears there will be more transfer.

Don’t fall for it, cause there won’t be.

Long story short: fast and slow, do both.

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