I’ve got a quick question for you.
When someone promises to make your athlete faster, do they show you a radar gun at their own facility, or do they point to the only clock that actually matters—the one at the official track meets?
Personally, I don’t care about speculation. I care about facts.
Every year, I keep meticulous track of the athletes who train with us at Fitness Planning Consultants (FPC). I compare their official meet times from this year to last year to see exactly what kind of return on investment they got for their hard work.
The results from this past season are officially in, and to say I’m proud of these kids is an understatement.
Take a look at the average improvements across our group of tracked athletes from ’25 to ’26:
- 100M Dash: Our sprinters dropped an average of 0.15 seconds overall. For the ones who hit the off-season consistently, that jump was an average of 0.31 seconds! (In a 100M, a tenth of a second is about 2.5 feet. We’re talking about an extra 4 to 8 feet of separation from the competition).
- 200M Dash: An average drop of 1.13 seconds across the board.
- 400M Dash: 100% of our tracked 400M runners got faster, dropping an average of 1.83 seconds!
- Hurdles: Slashed 0.38 seconds in the short hurdles and 1.25 seconds in the 300H.
- 800M Run: 100% of our middle-distance group improved, slicing an average of 6.94 seconds off their times!
- 1600M Run: An average drop of 9.76 seconds (with our improving athletes cutting a massive average of 13.76 seconds!).
- 3200M Run: 100% of our long-distance runners got faster, shaving an average of 17.99 seconds off their records!
These aren’t just minor tweaks. These are career-altering leaps.
Just look at a few of these individual breakthroughs:
- Sam Hertl chopped a massive 3.50 seconds off his 400M time, breaking down into the 50s (50.86s)!
- Braden Burns sliced a mind-boggling 36.69 seconds off his 3200M (10:19.35) and a massive 24.29 seconds off his 1600M (4:50.44).
- Emma Kloostra shaved off 22.41 seconds in her 1600M (5:51.63) and dropped 17.41 seconds in her 800M (2:33.75).
- Maria D’Orazio shaved 2.69 seconds off her 200M time (26.27s) and 0.42 seconds off her 100M (12.99s).
- Morgan Kessler dominated across three events, shaving 1.76 seconds off her 200M and 2.33 seconds off her 400M.
- Miranda Belo dropped 1.25 seconds in the 300H (45.23s).
- Because of the off-season training, we had 15 athletes get on the podium and capture 22 medals from sprints to distance to pole vault even.
So, why am I sharing this with you?
Because athletic development isn’t magic. It’s a formula.
These athletes didn’t achieve these times by just running laps during the spring. They did it by building elite leg strength, polishing their running mechanics, and doing the heavy lifting in the off-season right here in our facility.
Even if your child doesn’t run track—if they play soccer, football, basketball, or lacrosse—speed and conditioning are the ultimate game-changers. If we can drop a sprinter’s 100M time by a third of a second, or slice 13 seconds off a miler’s time, imagine what we can do for your athlete’s first-step quickness and late-game stamina on the field or court.
The off-season is where champions are built. Don’t look back at the end of next season wondering what “could have been.”
If you want to get official numbers on your athlete to establish a baseline for your athlete and where improvements could be made, CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT BENCHMARK DAY!
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Numbers don’t lie! Enjloy the weekend!
