Ken Taylor (@TheSpeedDr) played for the Super Bowl Champion 1985 Chicago Bears and is now a private coach, specializing in speed training. He was a three-time Pac-10 Academic All America at Oregon State University as a football player and triple jumper/sprinter, while also earning a bachelors degree in exercise physiology and sport science.

In this video, Ken explains the importance of hard work throughout a sports experience at any age, but points out that sooner or later athletes also will need to develop and improve their skills. He marvels that coaches are still using running as punishment and says, "We need to be more creative than that."

Therefore, he asks his athletes not to focus on the conditioning, but the actual skill needed, for example, to execute a spin move so they can run "suicides or line drills or gassers" more efficiently. Drawing from Newton ("who was way smarter than me"), Ken helps athletes realize it's easier to keep moving than to start moving.

Ken also breaks down exactly what should be going through the athletes' minds as they are running. In the middle, they may turn off their focus, and then resume it as they approach the technical part when they need to position their bodies to turn. That way, he says, the athletes focus on technique, rather than how many more reps they may need to endure before the drill is complete.