Each course is one coach teaching one event from the fundamentals up: the technique, the drills that develop it, and nothing taught before you know why it matters and how to fix it.
Outperform makes video courses for track and field coaches and athletes: sprints, hurdles, jumps, throws, distance and strength, each taught by one coach. The instructors are Olympians and the coaches of Olympians and NCAA champions. Most customers are high school, club and college coaches; the rest are athletes and parents.
Between 17 and 40 per course, so you can pull up the one progression or drill you need before practice without scrubbing through an hour of video.
Sets, reps, sample weeks and the drill progressions from the lessons, to carry straight to the track. Jumps and throws courses are video only; each course page says what's included.
Issued automatically when the last lesson is marked complete, naming the course, the instructor and the date, which is what most schools ask for when you submit it for professional development credit.
Pay once. Study the whole course on your computer in the preseason, or pull up a single lesson on your phone at the track when a problem shows up.
Ken Harnden's season plan for sprinters, 23 lessons in four groups. The lessons run in the order you would coach them. You plan before you accelerate, you accelerate before you touch a block, and the drills arrive after you know what they are for.
Planning
Technique
The training phases
Drills and recovery
"Your course work has provided us with a multitude of drills and a structured approach to our sprint workouts. The video is in a format that is highly digestible and provides a training guide that breaks down workouts with sets and reps. It also prescribes drills based on the athlete's ability level."
Most instructional videos put a camera in front of a coach for an afternoon and record what's top of mind that day. Even great coaches skip steps that feel automatic to them. We spend hours with each coach on the mistakes they've spent a career correcting and the progressions that changed their athletes.
The movement or the drill, named and shown before anything is said about it.
What it does for the race, the jump or the throw, so you know what you're building.
Demonstrated at speed by athletes who do it right, then in slow motion.
The ones the coach has corrected hundreds of times, shown on camera.
Where to stand, what to look at, and the cue that changes it. Bedard teaches you to see the main distance killers after one throw.
What a good rep looks like before you advance, and when to step back a drill so you don't add speed to a bad habit.
Every movement is filmed from the angles the coach uses to judge it, from the side, from the front, tight on the feet or the hands, at full speed and in slow motion, then recapped with graphics that show where to look.
"Besides the first class coaching, the quality of the videos, graphics and sound is exceptional."
The courses teach you what good technique looks like and how to fix what goes wrong. Our free app for iPhone and iPad is where you film yourself or your athletes and see whether the change is showing up.
Free to download. Pro adds synced compare, on-screen measurement and pose analysis.
of customers come back for a second course.
Olympians coached by the instructors.
subscribers learn from the free lessons on YouTube.
"There isn't a DVD or video tape I don't have for sprinting. Up to this date, your presentation was the most complete media I have ever purchased."
Yes. Most of our customers are high school, club and college coaches, including first-year coaches handed an event they never competed in. Every course starts with the fundamentals, teaches the event in the order you'd introduce it at practice, and shows how to spot and fix the common mistakes. Sprint, hurdle and strength courses include a printable guide with sets, reps and sample weeks.
Yes. Athletes and parents make up the rest of our customers. Every drill is demonstrated at full speed and in slow motion by elite athletes, with the cues and the common mistakes, so an athlete can follow the progressions alone and use the free Outperform Motion app to film and check their own technique.
A typical instructional video films a coach for an afternoon and leaves you with a list of drills. An Outperform course is one coach's progression for one event, worked out with the coach over hours of interviews before anything is filmed, shot from the angles the coach uses to judge the movement, and edited over about two months so every skill answers six questions: what it is, why it matters, how to do it, the common mistakes, how to spot and fix them, and when to move on.
No. The instructors have coached Olympians and NCAA champions, and every one of them has coached youth athletes or run camps. Each course starts at the fundamentals and teaches the event from the first drill before it gets to the advanced adjustments.
Sprints and speed (Ken Harnden, Karim Abdel Wahab), hurdles (Karim Abdel Wahab with Kevin Brown), high jump and long jump (Ryan Baily, Janay DeLoach Soukup), triple jump (Willie Banks), pole vault (Kevin Brown), shot put (John Newell), discus (Brian Bedard), javelin (Kara Winger), jumps training (Ryan Baily with Chris Helwick), distance running (Jason Fitzgerald) and strength and athletic development (Brent Salazar), plus tennis, golf and basketball courses. Each course is a one-time purchase with lifetime access.
Sign in at outperformsports.com and open My Courses. Access is immediate after purchase, on any phone, tablet or computer with a browser. Nothing ships and nothing installs.
No. You buy a course once and own access to it for life. There are no monthly fees and no renewal.
Yes. Watch any lesson as many times as you like, for as long as you like. Most coaches come back to specific lessons through the season.
Yes. Mark the last lesson complete and a certificate of completion is issued with your name, the course title, the instructor and the date. Download it from the course page.
Many coaches submit Outperform courses to their school or state for professional development credit, and the paperwork for it exists: every track and field course has a one-page syllabus with learning objectives and contact hours, plus the certificate. Whether it qualifies is your district's or association's decision, so check with them first.
Schools and clubs get education pricing on one or more courses, can pay by purchase order, and receive an invoice with our tax ID. See the schools and coaches page for how it works.
You have 14 days from purchase for a full refund, as long as less than 30% of the course has been watched and no materials have been downloaded. Email support@outperformsports.com with the address you signed up with.
Yes. When a course gets new material, it's added to your course at no charge and you get an email about it.
