Resisted Sprints: It’s On The Legs!
Resisted sprinting has been around for awhile. The idea is to add resistance, to make the nervous system recruit more motor units during the sprinting motion, in the hopes that it will...
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Using Resisted Sprints
In a previous post (http://wp.me/p1XfMm-iq), I reviewed the current state of knowledge about resisted sprints. With this post, I’d like to talk a little about how they can be used in an...
What Do We Know About Resisted Sprinting?
The October 2014 issue of the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research has articles by Kawamori et al and Bachero-Mena and Gonzalez-Badillo on resisted sprinting. This presents a great opportunity to take...
Training to Accelerate
Acceleration is the ability to increase speed. For a sprinter, it’s a component of their race. First they accelerate, then they achieve maximal velocity, then they maintain that velocity for as long...