This post is all about building up your sprint speed and it contains tips from top athletes such as Usain Bolt and Linford Christie. Below are the three top moves for building sprint speed and acceleration.
Squatt:
Why? well squatting is the best way to build up your glutes and these provide the base of your explosive power in your legs helping to give your an extra boost of acceleration. Make sure you activate the glutes by keeping your back straight and your squatts as deep as you can.
Cleans:
Why? Again this is an explosive exercise and helps to build up the explosive power you need to get out of the blocks fast. It is also good at conditioning the entire body.
Bench Press:
Why? Linford Christie believes that, "Your upper body is your engine", "the faster your arms go the faster your legs go". So bench press is the best upper body move for building up your sprint speed. But instead of going slow and heavy linford suggests dropping the weight a bit and working on fast, explosive pushes of the chest.
Usain bolt has more quick tips to get faster:
Dont over stride: He claims that "if you do that you'll lose alot of power when you push off " Instead he suggests getting power through your ground contact to generate more power and therefore a larger driving force in your sprint.
Relax: he says that he always trys to relax before a race or else you can become tense and not perform as well.
Strong core: Bolt has often pushed through the importance of a strong core for sprinters and this is supported by Linford Christie who suggests, "core strength is vital" he claims that with out a strong core you will be out of balance when sprinting and this can lead to a serious drop in speed due to a reduction in your overall stride lengths.
Squatt:
Why? well squatting is the best way to build up your glutes and these provide the base of your explosive power in your legs helping to give your an extra boost of acceleration. Make sure you activate the glutes by keeping your back straight and your squatts as deep as you can.
Cleans:
Why? Again this is an explosive exercise and helps to build up the explosive power you need to get out of the blocks fast. It is also good at conditioning the entire body.
Bench Press:
Why? Linford Christie believes that, "Your upper body is your engine", "the faster your arms go the faster your legs go". So bench press is the best upper body move for building up your sprint speed. But instead of going slow and heavy linford suggests dropping the weight a bit and working on fast, explosive pushes of the chest.
Usain bolt has more quick tips to get faster:
Dont over stride: He claims that "if you do that you'll lose alot of power when you push off " Instead he suggests getting power through your ground contact to generate more power and therefore a larger driving force in your sprint.
Relax: he says that he always trys to relax before a race or else you can become tense and not perform as well.
Strong core: Bolt has often pushed through the importance of a strong core for sprinters and this is supported by Linford Christie who suggests, "core strength is vital" he claims that with out a strong core you will be out of balance when sprinting and this can lead to a serious drop in speed due to a reduction in your overall stride lengths.
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