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Speed training: how to improve your sprinting

Exercise workout to improve maximum speed

Speed training: acceleration workouts

How to develop acceleration from a stationary position

Speed training: how sprinters can increase their speed endurance

An 8-week speed endurance programme for sprinters

Speed training for sprinters: sprinting exercises should be performed throughout the entire training year

The short to long approach involves speed training through the year with athletes performing sprint training right from the start of the season

Olympic athlete: interview with Allyson Felix

John Shepherd speaks to Allyson Felix

Olympic gold medallist Jeremy Wariner speaks to Peak Performance

Jeremy Wariner talks about sprinting, BBQ and Michael Johnson

Olympic Gold Medal Winners' Training Tips

What makes an Olympic Champion?

Circuit Training: how to increase speed

Speed is the capacity to perform successive movements at a fast rate. As well as thinking about speed as ‘running speed’ it is really the development of the ability to move the limbs quickly, which is needed in a variety of sports and events, e.g. javelin, discus, tennis, squash etc. Therefore, there is more to think about than just performing flat out sprints.

Strength Training Program Part 1: Competition Preparation

The best Weight Training Exercises to prepare for competition

Sandbag Sled Pull

Sandbags are an effective low cost alternative to sleds and offer more weight variability than tyres. This drill is excellent for developing acceleration power, make sure you maintain correct form throughout. You can adjust the weight of the sandbag to suit your strength goals.

Ladder Drill: Two Feet in Each Rung

A progression from the One Foot in Each Rung drill, challenges the speed of co-ordination of the athlete. Have the athlete perform the drill correctly by asking them to start off slowly to get a feel of the movement.

Acceleration Training for Peak Performance

learn how to increase speed to make a quick getaway

Building Speed and Endurance

Building Speed Before Endurance: time to turn convention on the head?

whole body vibration

Whole body vibration: no use for trained sprinters

fast-twitch muscles

Fast-twitch muscles: Twitch and you're gone - all you need to know about developing fast-twitch muscle fibre for speed, power and strength

modafinil

Modafinil: Banned drug works as ergogenic aid

sodium bicarbonate

Sodium bicarbonate and sprint performance

speed | age | sprint training

Speed and age - The bad news is that speed declines with age; the good news is that you can arrest, even reverse, this degenerative process

Strength training for hamstrings

Developing the full range of strength in this exercise will give an athlete a very good level of hamstring strength

speed agility quickness training | SAQ training

Speed agility quickness - SAQ training

uphill sprinting

Uphill sprinting

overspeed training

Overspeed training: Downhill sprinting, elastic cord sprinting and the concept of 'overspeed' training

powerbag training

The Powerbag

Speedballs | speedball training | speed ball

Speedballs

foot-flexor devices | dorsiflexed sprinting

Foot-flexor devices

Body composition: the difference between sprinters and distance runners muscular system

Why sprinters have a natural advantage over distance runners...

Creatine significantly boosts sprinting and acceleration

Creatine shown to boost performance in trained sprinters

Caffeine

More evidence that caffeine can benefit sprint athletes

Speed parachutes

Speed Parachutes: Displaying their bold maize and blue colors, the chutes billow out behind runners during workouts, attached by cords to the athletes' chests.