If you want to get faster, you must get stronger.
Strong muscles contract faster and generate more power.
Strength is the key to great speed!
I make sure my athletes are strong. Increases in strength will DRAMATICALLY increase the force output (otherwise known as speed) of a young athlete.
If you are attempting to improve speed by running on a treadmill you should STOP NOW!
• Treadmills, regardless of speed, take out one of the most important movements of running, hip extension (there is a reason that world famous speed coach Charlie Francis is so fixated on training hip extension, it plays a major role).
• When are you going to be on a treadmill in any sport? It would be much more efficient (not to mention cheaper) to do regular sprints and perform athletic lifts.
• I guarantee if I had two athletes of similar strength and size and one ran on a super treadmill and one did a good track workout for 8-10 weeks the track workout athlete would be faster and the treadmill athlete will be slower and less coordinated.
• If someone could show me one world class sprinter in the past 20 years whose ability is attributed to overspeed treadmills, I will gladly eat my words. There is actually this miraculous thing that most elite sprinters have done. It’s called SPRINTING and GETTING STRONGER!
• What makes you faster is the force you apply to the ground but you can't do that if the ground is moving!
• This is the fundamental difference between actually running and running on high speed treadmills – a strong young athlete can accelerate through the ground and create their own momentum.
• On a high speed treadmill, the ground is coming at the young athlete which means that creating force is not necessary… which one do you think is more beneficial?
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