Testing rewards the single best effort. Competition rewards the athlete whose eighth sprint is still within a few hundredths of the first. Those are different abilities, and only one of them wins games.
The protocol
- 8 x 30 yards, 45 seconds rest, timed every rep.
- Stop the set when any rep falls more than 5% off the fastest one.
- Record the number of reps you held, not the average time.
- Repeat every three weeks under identical conditions.
The score you want to move is reps-held. Getting from five to eight is worth more in a game than shaving a hundredth off a single sprint you take once a year at a testing day.
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