SPEED TRAINING

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To run faster you have to understand the technique of running faster and the physical training that aids the technique. It is no more difficult to make someone faster than it is to make someone stronger, the only difference is that there are lots of courses on strength and conditioning and hardly any on speed coaching.

The speed components are as follows: l Strength endurance l Speed endurance l Power l Sprint endurance and they follow logically from one to the other.

Strength endurance Strength endurance is the ability to perform strength tasks for longer. This is achieved by using weights or body strength circuits. The problem with weight training is that there are weights programmes that make the client slower and there are weight programmes that make the client faster. It is crucial that the trainer knows the difference! Unlike weights, where by doing the wrong weights

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you can make someone slower, you cannot make someone slower using only body weight circuits. However if you do the wrong body circuits, you won’t make them faster either! Allan Wells M.B.E became Olympic 100m gold medallist without

lifting any weights.

Speed endurance Speed endurance will call upon the strength endurance to help the body to maintain the body’s structure whether

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Speed is the most talked about fitness component and yet the most feared. Clients crave speed and constantly ask trainers if they can be made faster, only to be told that sprinters are born not made. True to a certain extent, but not all sportsmen and women want to be sprinters, they just want to be faster than they are and that is definitely possible.

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