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| Jul 18, 2014 at 7:27 | comment | added | Ross Drew | Completely untrue. Heavy weights don't make you slower. I train at 5x5 with 80% 1RM in order to increase speed & jump height. Light weight training is actually more likely to slow you down as you train type 1 muscle which reacts slower. | |
| Jul 6, 2012 at 4:12 | comment | added | Dave Liepmann | The prescription for sprinters that I've seen is really, really heavy deadlifts for very few reps (1-3). Increasing maximal strength for that movement chain immediately improves power for all but elite runners, since power is a proportion of strength. I'd argue that since sprinters get plenty of power work by sprinting, the best area to hit during lifting is maximal strength, which allows their power development from sprinting to have maximal benefit. | |
| Jul 5, 2012 at 4:13 | comment | added | Robin Ashe | Doing exercises with light weights is more likely to impact speed than doing it with heavy weights. Doing training with heavy weights will give you the strength foundation to build your speed, but doing it with light weights will just slow you down enough to reprogram your muscles to move at a slower speed. That's why shadowboxing should never be done with greater than 1lbs weights. | |
| May 5, 2012 at 19:49 | comment | added | THelper | @Imbrondir Sprinters train with heavy weights to become stronger and more powerful. But this is not the same as speed. To improve speed, sprinters do plyometric excersises with light weights. | |
| May 5, 2012 at 11:56 | comment | added | Imbrondir | Heavy weights does NOT make you slower. In fact many professional sprinters trains a lot with heavy weights to improve their speed. | |
| Feb 1, 2012 at 13:40 | history | answered | THelper | CC BY-SA 3.0 |