Why & How To Incorporate Strength In Your Training Year | Strength Training For Sprinters

If you want to be a powerful athlete, you need to be strong relative to your body weight. Learn how and why sprinters and other speed/power athletes should incorporate strength training into their yearly training program.

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There may be outliers who achieve their best performances in the absence of any type of resistance training program, but the vast majority of athletes have untapped potential that can be realized in part through a well designed and properly progressed strength training program.

Today we will cover a few of the benefits of strength training as it relates to speed and power athletes, as well as discuss broadly how strength training should be progressed depending on your current levels of strength.

TIMESTAMPS
00:34 - Motor Unit Recruitment
01:50 - Neuromuscular Inhibition
03:43 - Tissue Stiffness
04:22 - Phase Potentiation
06:40 - Get Strong First
10:25 - Once Strong, Develop Power
12:44 - Strength Maintenance
14:26 - Basic Periodization
17:34 - Conclusion

Topics Covered:
Motor Unit Recruitment
Neuromuscular Inhibition
Tissue Stiffness
Phase Potentiation
Strength In Sprinting
Training Progressions
Develop Strength Before Power
Once You’re Strong, Develop Explosive Power
Strength Is Always A Factor
Example Periodization of Strength Qualities

References
Effectiveness of Traditional Strength vs. Power Training on Muscle Strength, Power and Speed with Youth: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, David G. Behm, James D. Young, Joseph H. D. Whitten, Jonathan C. Reid, Patrick J. Quigley, Jonathan Low, Yimeng Li, Camila D. Lima, Daniel D. Hodgson, Anis Chaouachi, Olaf Prieske and Urs Granacher, Front. Physiol., 30 June 2017, https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2017.00423

The Importance of Muscular Strength: Training Considerations, Timothy J. Suchomel, Sophia Nimphius, Christopher R. Bellon, Michael H. Stone, Sports Med 2018, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-018-08...

Relationships between muscle power output using the stretch-shortening cycle and eccentric maximum strength, Kazuyoshi Miyaguchi, Shinichi Demura, J Strength Cond Res. 2008 Nov;22(6):1735-41. doi: 10.1519/JSC.0b013e318182220a.

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