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Athletes look to get edge with burst of speed, workouts

11:23 AM CDT on Tuesday, June 24, 2008

By TED MADDEN / WFAA-TV

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Tyler Little played quarterback at Colleyville Heritage High School last fall and hopes to start as a freshman this year at Trinity Valley Junior College in Athens.

To help him get there, he's doing drills that don't include a football.

"The worst drill is probably the sleds," says Little. "We get 60 pounds on those sleds and we're just going from flat feet to just exploding 20 yards."

Little is just one of the athletes working out at Velocity Sports in Southlake, where trainers work to improve their clients' athleticism, and primarily their speed.

"The majority of athletics, the majority of any sports that you play is a burst, and explosive burst, whether it be a 20 yard sprint or a two to three yard sprint," says Chris Wyatt, a velocity sports trainer.

All kinds of athletes work on all kinds of things at Velocity, from professional athletes looking to get an edge, to sixth grade girls like Summer Bennisom.

"Both of my sports are year round, so I know I have to work extra to do all these things, and if I just go to practice, I'm not getting better at all," says Bennisom, who's trying to make the a-team in basketball

"I think what we get out of this is they push us more," says Ryan Britt, a center at Wake Forest. "I mean I could be jogging around my neighborhood, but that'd be just working on conditioning, and we do that here too, but it's about initial speed and change in direction and power, everything."

Little is part of a group that works out two hours a day, four days a week. His down time is reserved for getting ready for the next workout.

"Chill by the pool now," he says. "Chill by the pool."

 

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