Does sprint training benefit strength training?
Here’s the plan, when you do lower body workouts, always try and work HIGH weight and LOW reps. Choose a weight you can physically not do more than 10 reps of. You should almost border on not being able to lift that much weight on your final set. This will help to build your explosive (sprinting) muscles. However, when you run and do cardio, it is still important to run long distance. You want to build the muscles by lifting, but elongate them to some degree, and build endurance by running miles. In football, although sprinting speed is important, you’ll be on the pitch for 90 minutes running non-stop, so you’ll still need flexible, long muscles, and a lot of endurance. Also, it will surprise you just how much ab strength plays a roll in speed. The stronger your abs, the faster you will be. Sprinting isn’t all about legs, if you’ve done a real sprinting workout you will know that the next day your entire body hurts. So, low weight / high reps to build strength and speed. Stretching and
