Speed isn't a talent you're born with a fixed amount of. It's a set of mechanics that can be measured, trained, and rebuilt — and this is the system behind every KPM athlete.
Most training chases fatigue — make them tired, call it work. KPM chases mechanics. Every athlete starts with a gait analysis, trains through proprietary resistance that loads the right positions, and progresses on a structured 12-week mesocycle.
Each pillar builds on the one before it. Master them in order and top-end speed stops being the goal — it becomes the by-product.
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The positive change in the rate of speed — and the most important quality any athlete can own, because it's the most used. Every sport starts from a static position or a sub-maximal speed. We shorten the time it takes to reach max velocity, so the first three steps beat everyone else's.
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Creating more force in a shorter window to displace the center of mass in the direction the athlete intends. IFG is the engine behind the first move — the jump off the line, the drive out of a cut, the explosion off the ground.
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The ability to direct the base of support into the most advantageous position to change direction or stop. We train the path there through specific tensions and positions. Think Barry Sanders on a cut, Jordan on a crossover, Messi on the ball — that's elite center-of-mass management.
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The final pillar and the ceiling-raiser. Max velocity work enhances the central nervous system's output, creating downstream gains across all three pillars beneath it. It's the most taxing training we do — and it requires more recovery than any other day in the program.
Every pillar on this page is trained against the same thing: a proprietary resistance, proven and refined across the life of KPM. It isn't a load bolted onto the athlete. The cords hold them inside a small percentage of the movement itself — the exact pattern we're trying to change — and every rep against it is counted.
The nervous system answers the resistance by upregulating. For a window afterward the athlete runs faster and jumps higher than they did going in — same body, same day.
That response is the whole point of the resistance, and it is the reason the reps are counted rather than guessed at.
We don't take the effect on faith. We test, apply the resistance, and re-test to confirm the central nervous system is actually upregulated. The resistance has been tweaked over the life of KPM on the back of those numbers.
Weights and sleds build general strength and they have their place. But they're too slow to create the nervous-system adaptations the cords do, and they inhibit natural movement and sequencing. The cords don't — they sharpen specific motor-neuron recruitment and the exact sequence behind acceleration, jumping, and change of direction.
General strength is a different job, done a different way. This is the part that changes how fast the signal gets there.
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Fifteen minutes of pre-practice, then sixty minutes of training, eight athletes to one coach. Each of the three days goes at one quality — one acceleration day, one initial force generation day, one max velocity day. Twelve weeks of that, and then you test out.
Every class opens with the intent and closes with a test. An athlete who understands what a day is for is an athlete who can coach themselves on the days we are not there.
Before a rep is run, the room is told what the day is and why — what it does physically, what it does technically, and which of the four pillars it belongs to. Nobody trains a session here without knowing what the session is for.
A multiple-choice test on the big screen, reviewing what just happened on the floor. Proctored by Coach David Klemic or Cruz Lewis, and every answer comes back with the reason it is right.
We start by measuring how the athlete actually moves — not how they should. That baseline tells us exactly which pillars to prioritize.
A structured block that loads the right positions with proprietary resistances and progresses deliberately, with recovery built around max-velocity days.
We measure again. Athletes leave with proof, not a feeling — and, for return-to-play cases, the confidence to compete again.
Twenty-five to thirty percent more athleticism across a cycle, measured since 2002 across more than three thousand athletes. Not a survey and not a feeling — every number came off our own timing gates and jump mats, before and after. The athletes behind it are named on the alumni wall.
We can put a number on how athletic your athlete is — and then move it. The seven tests roll up into a single Athletic Composite Score, so athleticism stops being a thing people have opinions about and becomes a figure on a page.
Twelve weeks later we run the same seven and score it again. "He seems faster" becomes a number that went up, next to the one it started at.
There's no specific age to start, and earlier is better. A young nervous system is more plastic — and plasticity is exactly what this method works on. Waiting until high school means training the same qualities against more resistance.
We take return-to-play athletes, many of them referred by Dan Gorrin, the physical therapist at Spectrum Fitness Rehab & Peak Performance, whose practice is in our building. They leave with numbers rather than a feeling — which is usually what it takes to trust the leg again.
Book Physical Therapy →Testing in is a real gate, not a formality. If the analysis says an athlete is at risk of injury, we tell you, and we don't train them. It's the one result nobody wants and the reason the rest of the numbers mean anything.
Book a gait analysis and we'll show you exactly where your athlete stands — and where the method can take them.
Book a Gait Analysis → Or call — 610-283-4598 →
