Run On Muscle - Blog
PLYO SERIES #3 Plyometrics Intermediate Options - More of all that good speed stuff
Regular plyo training will increase the rapid fire of your stretch-reflex. You’ll get more bang for your buck – no scratch that ground contact. The Drills - 1: Straight leg bounds - 2: Straight leg hops - 3: Fast double-foot jump sequence - 4: Bounds - 5: Hurdle jumps
Plyo Series #2 - Getting Started: Low Intensity Variants
Plyometric training boosts speed, power and agility. Your Antepes Muscle Runners are the perfect tool to get even more from these explosive training drills.
Because your dynamic speed training shoes are designed to get you off the ground faster and in a more effective way for sprint and speed training you’re going to be in a great place (literally) to super-charge your plyometric power training.
How Antepes Muscle Runners will make you faster - All you need to know
Antepes Muscle Runners are the training shoe designed to specifically increase running and sprint speed. To achieve these goals they are packed full of numerous innovative features – including a...
Indoor Sprinting: Muscle Runners are the sprint shoe of choice when you can’t wear spikes
There are facilities notably in the US where you can’t wear spikes, but you can train and race. You can see how this could be a dilemma. What are you...
Strong Foundations
Ask an athlete what the key speed muscles are and they’ll probably say the quads or maybe hamstrings. The foot, ankle and lower leg muscles tend not to be a...
Avoiding Gapology - Building a speed plan #4 Reaping the sprint seeds
In our previous three posts in this series, we have taken you on a journey starting from how to best prepare and plan your autumn/fall training, to transfer, to relevant...
Avoiding Gapology - Building a speed base #2 Growing the sprint seeds
Last post we considered how to avoid gaposis when autumn/fall training for speed. In overview we considered why it’s important not to do too much general preparation work. Remember the...
Avoiding Gapology - Building a speed base #3 Cultivating the sprint seeds
In this series of four posts (do check back on numbers 1 & 2 if you haven’t already done so) we look at speed preparation and planning for the autumn/fall...
Avoiding Gapology - Building a speed base #1 Sowing the sprint seeds
At this time of the year (autumn/fall) many sprint-based athletes will be starting their training for the next season. They will commence with a building phase – a phase which...
How Usain Bolt ran so fast and how you can too - Stride Length vs. Leg Speed (Part 1)
Sprint speed is the product of stride length and leg speed (cadence). How you train to improve these qualities is vital for increasing your speed. So, what’s better? Training for stride length or leg speed when it comes to maximizing sprint speed? Oh, and how did a certain Mr Bolt do it?
Muscle Runner - Your Quick Get-Away Driver
With the Olympics fresh in our minds, we will have seen the fastest of the fast – Noah Lyles, Sha’Carri Richardson, Grant Holloway et al set the track on fire....
Build Sprint Muscle
Power is crucial for sprinting Coaches and sports scientists specifically refer to rate of force development (RFD). Basically increasing RFD makes you faster. How so? Well, you will be able...
