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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_hgptf10Xw

not sure how this applies to sprints and long jump etc but her form is really impressive

It's something that I have done a bunch of times and people here keep saying that I never actually sprinted fast. Sure, there's usually a downhill, but I am understating how fast. 2X miles per hour sustained isn't fast? Sure, being fast isn't understanding, but the goalposts keep being moved! I had a coach follow me to another subreddit to correct my "ridiculous" claim of being faster in top speed than Mo Farah. Are lot of people are such, as anyone fast in the NFL or NBA. Coaches taking over with the same old conventional advice really defeats the purpose of a hub like this. This isn't running and in terms of the topic at hand, pure distance runners such as Salazar were not fast. He did ho

I know it's unorthodox but I think this works. As someone with knee injuries, I can tank a kick to the knee without making them worse? Yet if I run on hard surfaces that leads to overuse eventually. You know how Muay Tai fighters square up and lift up their knee highly and rapidly? I think that your ability to do that not only give you an advantage in a clash, but is correlated with the ability to sprint. At some level its cardio, but I think that if you spar kickboxing for rounds, or kick a heavy bag, it is excellent off season sprinting work. Also my sparring partner actually had a faster first step, and this helped him in striking exchanges.

You guys don't know how big this hub was. We posted Justin Gaitlin sprinting on a Japanese game show with a bunch of fans pushing him along, and it went so viral news stations were playing it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZcCBY53Hns Aerodynamics is very important to sprints. By having rows of fans that keep pushing him even at top speed, he not only gets a better start but a higher top speed. Discuss.

That's my goal anyone in or does anyone have an alternative sprinting target to reach?

Thinking of Tommy Smith's 200 m straight record and other reasons why a single line sprint course could be faster. Here's the challenge: any distance you want to sprint, as long as it's on a flat surface, and there is only one direction (forewards), whoever has the fastest average speed wins.

I think that I can probably better the 26 second rep times I used to get for a 200 rep to a 25 in a straight sprint, but I am going to aim for an estimated 37.5 seconds in the 300 straight, for example. That would be a good result for me, but anyone with a fast 100m time could beat me there. In general I suggest sprinting between 150-300 meters to get the best average time though, depending on if you

The kid was simply wrong. There have also been times when the main coaches here have argued against me and simply been wrong. Read: ground contact time does correlate with sprinting speed but that doesn't mean it's the sole or deciding variable. Citing a source that vaguely resembles your points will seem like you are right to you, and anybody else who does not think deeply. This sub needs much higher standards of debate, and communication. Sprinting knowledge is good when you can incorporate it an communicate it succinctly. Everyone likes to criticize me for not having recorded 100m and 200m times, but when I threw the gauntlet down and asked, how fast would I have to sprint before you chan

I know I posted about extensive (cardiovascular) tempo but that was for people training for long term health and fitness, or people with winter fat looking to get in shape pre season. These intensive tempo workouts are way too heavy on strain for early workouts and really would require a lot of work capacity to even complete with decent form. Is this some sort of meme meant to trigger people with strong opinions about training high intensity and low volume?

I think that at least some of these posts must be fake because they follow a certain formula of an unreasonable coach, training for the 200 like it's the 800 and the sprinter somehow knowing better despite not being experienced in traini

Reading about slow twitch/fast twitch runners, Seb Coe often comes up. Regardless of if it was that he was so fast twitch or if he simply had great mechanics/ strength for his size, probably the only distance runner at the time who also had world class 400m speed. Coe would do aerobic work at 5k pace for intervals to increase his range, rather than run the higher mileage that even a middle distance runner usually does. His training of limited mileage including easy runs on soft surfaces, heavy quarter squats, and intervals rather than long runs for high intensity aerobic training, may show a way to increase your range/ stamina without losing speed. Or, for anyone with weight to lose, trainin

Way too many people here have posted that they weigh something that isn't even heavy, and that they want to lose weight for the purposes of going faster. Sprinting isn't the 5k, you need to be lean (in season) but not necessarily skinny. I'm headed out but this is just an example of low hanging fruit, people think that they can do some sort of mathematical calculation between the weight loss and the resulting speed, and that's only going to apply to the obese. I'm 6 4 220 and I am slower than I was when I was south of 200 lb, but it's mostly the way the weight is distributed. Biking has built up my quads and calves for endurance, consuming too many calories added a beer belly, and the combin

It just seems like a good opportunity to you know, run really fast. If you did what was the time?

I was doing these because I read that the winner of a distance race could be predicted from photos, meaning that the runner who is most symmetrical in stride usually wins (efficiency). However a sprinter also needs to be balanced for injury prevention and speed endurace. Someone referenced Jimson Lee recently (speedendurance.com) and he was memorable for pointing out that Bolt actually beats the competition with speed endurance, running faster than other yes, but also maintaining it for better splits. I think that the hidden part of speed endurance, why people have trouble training for it, may be symmetry.

Anyways in the workout you just observe your shadow as

Obviously this isn't sprint specific training but as far as offseason cross training, I found that biking with a backpack on a singlespeed bike activates a lot more muscle fibers than biking without one on, particularly if you are standing up. Same as hiking with a backpack on, or up hills and stairs and on even terrain. I consider it to be a necessity to get outside and get cardio+ sunlight in the winter for general health, and this is a way to prevent yourself from getting skinny fat without training like a marathon runner and experiencing the interference effect (losing muscle power or mobility).

I think that it would be interesting to have a group of runners from r/running challenge the assumptions on r/sprinting by seeing what they can do over 400m coming from a higher mileage than would ever be suggested there. The goal wouldn't be to run extremely fast, but to put down an honest time trial over 400m and then improve on that as much as possible by the end of the spring track season. Even if it doesn't impress anyone else, the goal is just to improve your own time as much as possible (without injury/loss of endurance) and reap the benefits.

When I was first reading about running online as an XC/distance team guy in high school, the name Alan Webb was everywhere. Discussion forums

Little things like imagining yourself winning a race, pushing and pulling yourself backwards on your computer chair to activate your quads and hamstrings, taking the stairs two at a time to increase mobility can help maintain your mindset and focus on your training plan when you aren't at the track. Jogging around a bit to warm up and then jumping up and down if you can't get to the track is a world above sitting for maintaining speed. The competitive nature that leads people to run races leads to lot of arguments and criticism on running/sports pages but ultimately like Arnold said on r/fitness it's more important to train and put the effort in, than worry about if you are doing the right