Best Exercises For Speed | Weight Training For Sprinters | ATHLETE.X

Here are the best exercises for speed you can use in your sprint training program. When it comes to training for sprinters, these exercises need to be included in order to develop strength, power, elasticity, prevent injury, and ultimately increase running speed.
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Whether you want to sprint faster, get stronger, be more powerful, or improve your sports performance, ATHLETE.X has the information, training programs, and consulting to help you achieve your best.
In the 60m dash, 100m dash, 40 yard dash, and most team sports, acceleration and sprinting speed are integral aspects of sports performance. In order to perform your best, you need to be able to run fast.
Learn how strength training exercises, power development exercises, plyometrics, special strength, heavy sled pulls, and sprints can all be utilized to make you sprint faster.
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@@ATHLETE.X Absolutely amazing video! Thank you! I just have a question, do you think these exercises, especially the plyometric exercises cause significant stress on the knee joints? Will this affect my knee joints when I am older? I do not want to be 50 and struggling to enjoy sports like skiing or sprinting because of damage to my knees from activity like this in my youth. I ask because my mother did lots of activity like this and she has trouble doing any exercise that requires bending of the knee. Care to comment on this topic? Cheer!

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@@StudioOAC take this with a grain of salt but I believe you might be able to stop the knee weakness in your older age if you just continue being active and don't overtrain in this age. Maybe try light weight ATG squats as well

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I really needed this. Coming from Strength/Oly lifting to sprinting, I was having trouble adjusting, and was always sore. I realized my exercises and volume needed to be adjusted for sprinting..this really helps alot!

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[@blackstallion3946]

I liked the plyos, sleds and sprints a lot. Good ideas there. I have found though that it is quite debatable whether or not a lot of weight training (especially in-season) will give a sprinter the edge they are looking for. Some sprinters, like myself and guys like Ben Johnson or Mo Green, are bigger muscle/power guys. I am a 50-60m specialist, so I don't mind being bulkier and having more power, size and raw strength. However, many top sprinters do not lift a lot of weights. Noteworthy would be Carl Lewis, who said the worst year of his career was the year he did the most weight training. It's important to see what works for each athlete as well. For me, I love a lot of weight training, but for other sprinters who are constructed differently, it is not as helpful.

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Thanks Cody, adding a few to my programme!

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Hello Cody, I just wanted say that your videos are amazing and helpful, I know what exercises to do when I go to the gym, and track. But what I wanted to ask you is what weight is the best to start off with, reps & sets, and when to increase the weight.

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Great content man, some advice on maintaining low shin angles and low heel recovery/toe drag would be awesome.

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One thing that has worked for me is to push through the big toe and then pop the thigh forward but feel as if you're leaving the foot behind you (so you don't engage the quads or hamstrings too much) and the lower leg can just get dragged forward until the next strike back at the ground. I don't always advise trying to drag the toe, but would if someone showed faster times as a result. Ultimately, you've got to play around with what part of the leg you cue to go forward vs backward during those first couple steps, and you might even find you run faster without the toe drag. For low heel recovery without toe drag, I'd visualize swinging the entire leg from the hip with the knee locked at 90 degrees or something like that. Another way to achieve it is to visualize yourself pushing horizontal relative to the ground for the first couple steps and then letting the brain figure it out when you drive the knee forward. Sorry I don't have a super clear answer, but its because often it comes as a result of trial and error over many practice sessions. I wouldn't worry too much about it though, upright sprinting is most of the race!

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Hey man, I really like your training knowledge. Do you recommend doing the same training for the 300m? It is hard to stay consistently at high speeds for that distance, in fact, the last 100m I am gassed out. Also, could you make a video of how to run efficiently in the curve? Thank you and keep up the good work.

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Thanks for watching!

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Hey bro excellent video I Coach Explosive speed etc these days mainly working with my son who’s reasonably competent with these types of movement exercises but I gotta say you’ve put this together excellently and it’s good to be able to refer to this for the exercises we are using during our progression.. thanks sharing your work 👍

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Thanks Rob! Sorry it took a while to see this.

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Great info bro, appreciate you sharing this. What would be the suggested time spent in each phase, given I'm trying to run a fast 800m in May? Currently on power phase right now, focusing on getting my legs stronger with basic compound movements.

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Always trying to improve! Thanks for checking it out.

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No worries mate. One question, do you think it would be a good idea to do the glute ham eccentrics, single leg eccentric back extensions and hamstring holds once per week during the competitive season as a means of hamstring injury prevention?

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Found quarter squats really helped my start and acceleration.

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Exercises are good. Especially mid to end for plyos etc

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Great and very helpful explanation, but it kept me wondering in which part of the training should I do those kind of exercising , how frequently in a week and for how long, or should I do it throughout the year no mattering the phase of my training plan schedule? Thank you very much