Acceleration at its most basic is the act of increasing your running speed. From a standing start (or blocks), you explode into action. If you’re already running, you pick up the pace. Acceleration ...

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 ...

Running as fast as possible is very elemental – we’ve all tried it at some stage. But what puts someone in the really fast lane? Usain Bolt reached nearly 29mph (12-12.34 metres a second) when he was ...

Getting stronger can make you faster, but the exercises you choose to build strength can play a role, too. If you’ve been hoping to improve your sprint performance by doing a ton of back squats, it ...

If you look at a top-class sprinter in full-flight in slow-motion you’ll see that any degree of bending at the knee joint after ground contact on foot-strike in terms of an absorbent reaction is ...