2009 LETS ATTACK IT!

Good morning!

Its been a while since my last post, but it was a busy month getting my knee sorted out (hopefully) with a full ACL reconstruction & cartilage repair in mid December. I was lucky to save the cartilage as 2/3rds of it was torn off and it was 50/50 wheather to just take it all out or try to repair it!

My surgon likened it to
"TRYING TO STICH WET SPAGETTI TOGETHER!" Nice.


Big thanks to him & his team though up at Windsor, he is the Top Knee guy & they were responsible for Michael Owens ACL after it went at the championships for all to see. He was back playing in 7 months.

Anyway, enough of whats gone on in this last month, lets look to the future, what is up for 2009???

MY GOALS:

0 - 3 MONTHS
*ACL Gym activities & SWIMMING at 6-12 weeks.
*ACL LIGHT JOGGING at 3 months
**SSA is known to the people who need it & given an opportunity to help aspiring Youth Sportspeople!
**SSA releases its 1st Youth Peformance DVD: Animal Acceleration to help a greater number of coaches/teachers/youth sportspeople!

3 - 6 MONTHS
*ACL Work on FITNESS LEVEL.
*ACL Non-contact Sports Training/RUNNING at 6 months.
**SSA continues to invest in performance research, going anywhere in the world to get the best & bring it to YOU.
**SSA directly/regularly helps over 100+ youth athletes.
**SSA is the known YOUTH CONDITIONING SPECIALISTS in the SOUTH OF ENGLAND.
**SSA releases its 2nd Youth Peformance DVD.

6 - 12 MONTHS
*ACL 9 months FULL Sprinting & other sports.
*ACL 10-12 months FULL RETURN TO POLEVAULT??
**SSA Youth conditioning Revolution has a strong, large, dedicated following, helping and supporting each other and pushing up the Youth Performance standards in the UK and Overseas.

Whoops! Now I've done it now, once there down in black & white, goals become a bit more real.

More obtainable.

You know what you want.

YOU CAN NOW MAKE STEPS TOWARDS YOUR GOAL

But more than anything else.... Be Happy.

Your success will come,

I will be FANATICALLLY dedicated to helping you reach your performance goals what ever you decide they are!

JUST POST THEM HERE,
DO IT TODAY.

IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE?
HOW CAN YOU ACHIEVE THEM!

I look forward to finding what your GOING to achieve in 2009...

Yours in Sport & Speed,

Adam Walker BSc PGCE CSCS
THE SPEED FREAK

YOUNGER & FASTER WILKO!

Morning all!

With the Autumn Rugby Union Internationals fully underway, you can't go a weekend without viewing some quality rugby and Speed to match!

One who tends to stand out is The younger faster version of Jonny Wilkinson... DAN CIPRIANI !

Wilkinson's injuries are the cost of too much contact. But Cipriani is still young, developing, bigger, stronger and FASTER than Wilkinson already! A RUGBY SPEED FREAK!

This is not luck though. Like SPORT SPEED ACADEMY, Dan Cipriani identified weaknesses and did something about it!
When Dan joined Wasps he commented:

“Wasps have a gym culture so I quickly got big and strong — but I was convinced I needed to work on my speed. So I started working with Margot Wells — she’s the wife of former Olympic gold medal sprinter Allan — and I pay her out of my own pocket!"

Cipriani who comes from Croydon the same stomping ground that produced a TRUE SPEED FREAK in Paul Sackey. Cipriani gained a Rugby scholorsip from Whitgift school and hasn't looked back.

In his time there I was lucky enough to be at the school and taught him in disciplines such as Water Polo and Basketball. Sadly no Rugby speed work back then! Anyway, it was Paul Sackey who started to pay Margot £400 a month to help his speed six years ago. Sackey is always quick to credit Wells for her part in turning him into an international rugby player. As a young lad joining Wasps, Dan started his regular Speed sessions with Margot off his own back and has also paid tribute to the help she has given him.

So what does she do??

She only gets 45 minutes, twice a week, to make a difference to these blokes. She needs discipline and hasn't got time for them to turn up and muck about! She maintains she fuels their talent in a step-by-step manner. The first thing she did was to teach him how to run properly, immediately making Dan run faster. She then looked at his body to find out where are all the weaknesses? Then she starts to fix them.

SIMPLE.

Personally physical mistakes and weaknesses jump out to me too and I can appriciate and understand exactly how and why she does what she does. You need a structured system to follow and then you can reap the rewards when you take your skills onto the pitch! I only get 60 minutes once a week at my Academy at still get results!

Still with all this (as I have found in Polevault) you cannot avoid the "Freak" injuries and Cipriani suffered a fractured dislocated ankle injury in May. OUCH! Wilkinson dislocated his knee like me in September, and this is with us all being in good condition for our sport. Mmust be the season for it!

Expected to be out untill the new year, Dan has burst back in time for the Autumn internationals! His speed coach reckons he is faster than before he got injured, so it is looking good for England. Margot currently looks after 28 rugby players and says that she is unable to take anybody else on board. In the past (as all good speed coaches should!) she has also worked with swimmers, fencers and coached a variety of team sports.

SPORT SPEED IS ESSENTIAL & I LOVE IT!

I'll leave you with some great words that we apply daily at SPORT SPEED ACADEMY...

“You can’t tackle what you can’t catch.” Margot Wells

GET FAST. WIN MORE.

Adam Walker BSc PGCE CSCS YCS
www.SportSpeedAcademy.com
www.TheSpeedFreak.blogspot.com

THE SPEED FREAK

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SPEEDY RHYME!

Evening All!

Just a quick one, before the day is up.

Over here in the UK it is National Poetry day and being a wannabe poet I thought it 'd be rude to let it pass without a mention...

"PARENT'S WHO SUPPORT AND BELIEVE,

HELP THEIR CHILDREN TO EXCELL AND ACHIEVE"

Adam Walker 2008

Get Support,
Get Fast, Win More.

Night,

THE SPEED FREAK

http://www.sportspeedacademy.com/

ATTACK IT!

Morning Guys!

Started a new job yesterday, did not think there was a job that would fit in with my Sports Speed Development work. More importantly I did not think there was a job I would love like my Sport Speed Academy, then good things came to me, I knew what I could do, what wold fit with my "Fun" work and started yesterday.

ATTACK IT!

The main thing if you wan't to do something or achieve something is attack it! There is no point me wondering into this job looking for a little extra cash, turning up and going through the numbers. It would be tough for me and my students, I have attacked it and in one day of lecturing, I LOVE IT! This is not going to be "work" for me as well, how good is that!??


All these years of doing work and now both my jobs I love, ATTACK and enjoy! If you don't love or have any passion for what you do...

Look elsewhere... and attack it with all you got and you'l be suprised with what you get out of it.

Yours in Sport & Speed,

The SpeedFreak.

www.adamwalkerpro.com
www.sportspeedacademy.co.uk