Drills To Increase Top Speed
Being able to increase speed is important to just about every athlete and coach. Speed helps to determine success in almost every sport and position, is evaluated to determine if you make...
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The Relationship Between Strength and Sprinting
The contribution of strength to sprinting (both acceleration and maximum velocity) is difficult to pin down in the literature. While it sounds logical that strength is important for speed (more strength equals...
Strength Training for the Sprints: Practice vs. Theory
Leo Settle has written an old school article on strength training and sprinters. I call this old school because he is drawing heavily from some of the older material from Dintman, Ward,...
Static Stretching and Its Impact on Strength, Speed, and Power
Anthony Blazevich is one of my favorite authors. He publishes studies looking into things that we think we know and challenges our beliefs. I don’t always agree with his findings, but I...
Is Resisted Sprinting the Magic Bullet for Improving Speed?
Adding resistance to sprinting is a popular training tool for strength and conditioning coaches. The idea is that by adding resistance, the sprinting motion becomes more difficult. This requires the athlete’s nervous...