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Sprinting - Top Speed Development (Max Velocity Drill)

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Coach Karim demonstrates the in-and-out sprint drill to help athletes break through speed barriers and improve maximum velocity.

Get the Sprinting Master Class and Training Guide outperformsports.com/product/sprinting-smarter-sprinting-fas… Contrary to popular belief, all out sprinting will not increase speed. Recent studies have shown that sprinting all out will actually cause the nervous system to "record" and reinforce an athletes current max velocity - not help to increase it. If you want to develop and improve your top speed other techniques must be utilized. Coach Karim shares one of the best ways to increase sprinting speed and maximize top speed development.

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What commenters say. Recommended for learning how to execute float or in-and-out sprints to develop top-end speed and overcome speed barriers.

@SmarternotHarderrin r/Sprinting • Recommends

On “Top End Speed Development”

link to this video Maybe try this

@moremindfulin r/Sprinting • Recommends

On “What dropped your max velocity times by experience?”

I know this is a year later but do ins and outs. They address something called the "speed barrier" link to this video

@ChikeEvoXin r/Sprinting • Recommends

On “This is a video from last season. I’m in the white and blue jersey What do I need to work on for this season. Please point out everything noticed.”

Any athlete regardless of their level, could always benefit from increasing their top speed. If you have access to timing gates (FreeLap, Brower, etc) it could be good to track your 10m fly progression. In terms of drills, watch this 2 1/2 min video from the OutPerform channel on YouTube: link to this video

@whitebeard250in r/Sprinting • Mentions

Benefit of in-out-in sprints? So I’ve been following a mostly feed-the-cats philosophy training, and currently focusing on speed purely(won’t be in a race until early ‘20 at earliest); I’m wondering how beneficial are float sprints, /in-out-in sprints? I saw this video where the coach said that they are crucial to the ‘development’ of speed, training the neutral component—while pure sprints like 50m allout help athletes ‘remember’ their speed. Any truth to this?

@RodTKin r/Sprinting • Mentions

On “Does running at max velocity really teach your body only to run at that speed?”

I saw it in this video around 40 sec mark. Pretty sure I have seen a few people on here say it too. [video

@CompetitiveCrazy2343in r/Sprinting • Mentions

On “Thoughts on fly,float, fly?”

That coach is an assistant at Georgia now. But yeah, I am NOT saying Sprint-Float-Sprint (SFS) doesn't work, but in the long form of that same video, he goes on about that just doing regular ol' 20m or 30m flys (50/60m sprints) won't increase your top speed and just kinda locks in your top speed. [video But SFS wouldn't get you to a higher top speed anymore than just a 30m fly, or, IMO SFS would be WORSE in trying to attain a more maximal top speed due to the length of the overall run. If you look at splits in the 100m (even say just 10.6-11.0 sec athletes), it takes a few 10m segments to eek out that last 1-3% of maxV. So go going back and forth in those segmented zones in a SFS, one…
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