okay thought i’d share this as I think its both effective and entertaining. My youngest son is slow. But sometimes I’ve actually seen him move very fast and athletically, so I began to surmise that maybe he just didn’t instinctively know how to RUN fast. Off season he ran cross-country which I always hated for baseball players because it trains you to move slow. my belief but cant convince mom of that. So I came up with a game, I sent him into the fenced back yard with a backpack with 3 to 4 slices of bacon in it, sent out the dog and said Get Him! Honest to god , this is working. I actually didn’t get the idea from the rocky chicken thing but actually from something I read in Ted Williams biography My Turn At Bat when i was a kid. where he told how he gained speed by having his coach chase him around the bases with a stick and would whack him if he caught him. A little fear is a great motivator for spped, of course this is more fun than scary. And Of course my son is also in the weight room now, but hey I’m taking credit as a genius 😏
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