Right training. Right stage.
Kids aren’t small adults — and youth speed training shouldn’t be an adult program scaled down. Here’s what age-appropriate development actually looks like, and why it works.
Development is a sequence, not a race.
Every athlete moves through stages — and each stage has work it’s built for. Movement skills and coordination come before mechanics. Mechanics come before intensity. Get the sequence right and a kid keeps improving for a decade; rush it and you trade long-term development for short-term numbers. Training here follows the sequence on purpose.
Grounded in the Sport for Life Long-Term Development framework.
Ages are a guide, not a cutoff. Kids grow and develop at different speeds — so stage fit is confirmed through the evaluation, by a coach, not a birthday.
The work fits the athlete.
FUNdamentals
~6–9The foundation years — and yes, the FUN is on purpose.
Training looks like play with a plan: movement skills, coordination, balance, body awareness, and fun-first speed games. Athletes at this stage are building the movement vocabulary everything else gets written in. No grinding, no pressure — skill and joy, in that order.
Foundation
~10–14The skill-building years.
This is where sprint mechanics, footwork, and athletic skills get built — timed to the stage where kids learn movement fastest. Work gets more structured, sessions get more focused, and the fun stays, because athletes who love training keep training.
Framework
~14–18 · the horizonAs athletes mature, training progresses with them: building the engine, developing strength and power, and transferring speed to their sport. The sequence keeps paying off.
Built to develop kids, not burn them out.
Movement quality before intensity. Always. A young athlete’s mechanics matter more than their workload.
Workload watched across everything. School sports, club seasons, practices — training here fits around an athlete’s whole load, not on top of it.
Multi-sport encouraged. Playing multiple sports is exactly what long-term development looks like. Training supports their sports — it never competes with them.
No stage is a label. Every stage is the right place to be for that athlete, right now. Development is the point — comparison isn’t.
Parents stay in the loop. You’ll always know what we’re working on, why, and what comes next.
The evaluation meets them where they are.
Younger athletes get an age-appropriate evaluation: movement screen, coordination and athletic skills, and speed testing scaled to their stage. You get the same Digital Speed Report Card — scores, tiers within their stage, the highest-leverage area, and a plan — written so you both understand it.
$75— waived when you sign up for any training package.