Just like the NFL advises many types of training strategies to increase speed, we must also look for different ways to get faster. The mechanism is different but the effect is very similar. Just like a squat makes you recruit a lot of muscle fibers in a strong contraction, running at top speed does exactly the same thing. That last one is important: sprinting can help you get stronger if done appropriately. Better neuromuscular coordination (the communication pathways between your brain and muscles).Higher running economy (you’ll be more efficient and use less energy at the same speeds).Improved running speed (your max, “top end” speed will be increased).They have the potential to give you a lot of benefits: Meanwhile, my teammates and I were suffering through fives miles worth of intervals at a cruel “best effort” pace! Our heart rate barely got under 140 before we took off on the next repetition.īut I just didn’t understand speed training (also known as speed development) because I wasn’t a sprinter.Īfter a fascinating conversation with Mike Young, I got turned on to these types of workouts. They’d sprint for a second or two… maybe 5 whole seconds… and then walk around for a few minutes. You call THAT a speed workout?!īut it was – and I didn’t know what I was talking about. During college workouts when my existence shrank into a singularity of suffering and time stalled, I remember laughing at the sprinters.
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