2 Ways to Get Faster for Football
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Track is fine...for guys who run track. However, we're attempting to get faster on the football field! Football is a game of chaos, you need to be fast in all directions. You need to stop, start, backpeddal, run laterally, run on angles...track and field workouts do NOT prepare you to build football speed.
Here's how to do it in 3 easy steps.
1. Build Maximum, Top-End Strength
Your football workouts had better build top end strength or you're wasting your time, plain and simple.
Speed is fueled by strength. The stronger you are, the faster you are. If you want to turn to the track and field Gods, then know that the top male sprinters are crazy strong!
2. Transfer Strength into More Speed with Plyometrics
To get a real feel for what plyos are and what they can do for football, think of them this way:
When you perform any sort of muscular work – lifting, running, jumping, even walking – your muscles will alternate between a period of lengthening (the eccentric phase) and contracting (shortening phase).
The simplest analogy is that of you jumping and a spring. Both store energy, then release it upwards. in your case, you drop into a rapid squat (eccentric) before contracting your muscles to propel you up into a jump.
It is that rapid stretch phase that leads to such high amounts of potential elastic energy (we'll refer to this as explosiveness for the sake of simplicity).
Explosive strength is a specific motor quality requiring specific training methods. this can be done in the weight room with max effort work, chains, bands, and dynamic effort movements. but, these will still leave a gap in strength. this is where Plyos are useful.
Because the Central Nervous System is the key to being faster, more explosive and stronger, we need to use training methods that train the CNS.
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