Phew… The sound one makes when they see speed—real speed. The sound you hear when something goes fast. the sound of exhaustion you make after you have worked on Speed. Phew.
Ed Lovelace is in the Speed business. He is a Phewsioneer and has worked with college and MLB players for years who are searching for the next gear on the speed meter.
His company, Phewsioneering, does one thing. It shares the formula of high-speed running and what it takes to be Phew fast. Improving running speed, throwing speed and bat speed are all by-products of the Phew training model.
His clients are plentiful; Andrew Velazquez, Dillion Tate, Termarr Johnson, and Jason Gonzalez to name just a few of the Phew alum. My two children, Micaela and Anthony, went from fast to Phew fast under his watch.
I had a chance to slow Ed down for an afternoon to ask the question all athletes want to know—how do I go faster? Here are his answers.
Where does elite speed come from?
Olympic sprinting is elite and sets the bar for human movement on earth. See, we get the title world’s fastest humans. This is anchored by a number. The men’s 100 meter world record is 9.58 seconds.
That number represents the person that can operate at a full range of motion over a distance that identifies the world’s fastest human. This is how we identify elite, and then we trickle down to identify it with granular specificity.
That shared, elite speed and its many sub-levels come from force generated by an athlete that converts said force into ground force reaction (GFR). Ground force reaction is the initial domino that makes all things move in baseball.
Why is traditional speed training, in your opinion, ineffective?
Traditional speed training such as cones, ladders and gadgets do not get to the core of what makes an athlete fast. That application is sensory overload and does not address the cornerstone of speed and the laws that support human beings going fast repetitiously.
The surface level of speed training does not address the law of human acceleration.
“The human body has the capacity to accelerate up to and no further than 60 yards/meters.”
In order to fully accelerate, one has to be in shape in order to actually do speed work. World-level sprinters would say you have to get in shape in order that you get in shape.
Real speed has a deep rabbit hole. This is what I will share to make it simple—one has to prepare (get in shape) and build a serious tank of oxygen capacity whereby he/she can mitigate lactic acid…
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