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...
Classic Article: Ozolin and the Speed Barrier
When it comes to the training of speed, we have a number of interesting tools. These include tools that make sprinting more difficult (i.e. resisted sprinting) and tools that allow the athlete...
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...
Taking the First Step Explosively: The Standing Start
In a previous post we covered the falling start as the first in a series of progressive drills to teach athletes how to take the first step explosively (http://wp.me/p1XfMm-H). This post is...