Sprinting: what a simple concept. This sport could easily be summarized as running a short distance as quickly as possible, and for most of us amateurs, it would be making a foolish attempt at ...

Sprint training focuses on running at maximum velocity in short bursts, with long recovery periods. Specificity is a key training principle – training in a way that is relevant and appropriate for ...

Marathoners generally don’t lose any sleep over how fast they can sprint, nor do they spend time developing their top-end speed. But Veronique Billat, a French exercise physiologist and author of The ...

Even for those of us who love endurance above all else, there’s something about sprinting. Your top speed can win or lose races, and can also serve as an indirect marker of muscle and tendon ...

What Really Determines Your VO2 Max? That’s why we approach speed training differently. The purpose of training speed in running is really two-fold: First off, we want to recruit more Type-IIa muscle ...

If you aren’t a professional athlete, it is highly unlikely that you train for speed in your gym, or on the treadmill. On the latter, while there is a number that records how fast you’re ...