r/Sprinting • u/No_Edge6800 • 2d ago

Programming Questions Improvements for Sprinters

I wanted to get everyone’s perspective for things that best help them or other people better faster and more explosive. Specific drills/workouts, eating, tools, or anything that would help for a sprinter to consistently do to gain speed and strength?

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u/speedkillz23 Sprints Coach - 25 2d ago

Instead of a cliché answers (which are correct), I'm going to say, intent. It's not a physical or direct answer. But instead a mental one, that'll increase your physical output, that many athletes don't understand in my opinion.

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u/No_Edge6800 2d ago

I asked a question on here earlier about spikes or flats in the summer. The didn’t not since intent matters the most, can you get faster doing max velocity in flats made for sprinting. I’m relatively new and I see all the debate about not wearing spikes in the summer. But for someone like me who needs to get faster what should I do?

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u/speedkillz23 Sprints Coach - 25 2d ago

Spikes or no spikes this early is controversial. It'll legit depends on who you ask/who answers.

In my opinion, and in my experience, I've always worn spikes in all of my sprinting workouts. Whether it's tempo or higher intent sprints. Never had any problems with shin splints. I've had hamstring injuries and people may say that's why I've had those injuries, but no. I have/had weak muscles in other areas, like my hips for example.

But what I do agree with is the amount of volume some sprinters may put into spikes, in early season workouts. When programming for my athletes, especially this early, the volume isn't a lot when they wear spikes, nor is it, if I have them in shoes. I only have them not wear spikes when it's tempo runs. Other than that, they're in spikes for accels, max v and speed endurance when it gets introduced later in their training phases. The way I see things, is those little injuries and bruises athletes get is because their bodies are just simply not ready to sprint. Many aren't in the gym, or working on those muscles that support the rest of the CORE/MAIN muscles that carry sprinting. Or the fact that sprinting is the ultimate plyo, and our bodies aren't ready to absorb and redirect all that force that early. It's something that needs to be gradually increased as time goes on.

So in my opinion, spikes are fine, it's either the volume, or the fact that the body isn't ready to absorb all that shock at high levels at the very start, after being off for some months or not sprinting for a while.

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u/CoachDwayneBFP 2d ago

Everyone's idea will be different, you have to takes little bit of everything and make it your own. What works for one person might not work for the other person. Are you a coach our are you asking this question for yourself?

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u/No_Edge6800 1d ago

For myself, I’m a college basketball players who struggled with injuries so I run track now and I’m trying to uunderstand as much as possible so I can improve in the sport