So what is speed? In most cases, speed is how quickly you can go from a standing position to running. Speed is a very important factor in every sport. Speed can be your strength, your endurance and your top speed. Increasing your speed involves working on all these factores and improving them. Speed training is something that no athlete should ignore.

What exercises can you use to help increase your speed? You can use sprinting drills where you start with a slow jog and then slowly work your way up to running as fast as you can. You always want to do a proper warm up and get your muscles loose. To improve your stride length you wan to work on training your msucle strength and power.   Speed workouts take a different approach than other training and require you to develop great flexibility. You always want to be focused on increasing your strength and speed together in running specific exercises. You need to work on using proper technique to be able to run at your fastest speed possible.

Speed training is done by performing high velocity for intervals that are brief or short. Doing high reps or long duration exercises will work on your endurance and not your speed and quickness. Developing speed is a very specific type of training and needs to be done in a very controlled manner.

In order to run fast you need to be able to contract your muscles quickly while still controlling the movements. If you have consistently maintain a certain speed training all throughout a year, both your nervous system and your muscles will not lose the feeling of moving at fast speed, thus the brain will not have to learn again the right control patterns in the future. In doing this, an athlete can maintain or even increase his speed and be successful in his chosen sports.

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