This posting will have a look at what part strength plays in your speed and agility athletics course. Let’s take a look at a few terms.
Absolute strength – the greatest amount of power that you’re capable of producing, your single rep limit is your absolute strength
Starting Strength – a measure of what number of muscle fibers that you are capable of instantaneously tighten
Look at it this way, if you snatch a heavy set of weights off the floor you will strain your back. But if you lift it slowly this would not occur. Starting strength (in the example shown), basically measures the greatest weight you’re capable of
lifting off the floor without harm.
Relative strength – your strength for every lb of body weight
Reactive Strength or Plyometric Strength – details your capacity to soak up and use energy whilst switching from an eccentric contraction to a concentric contraction.
What’s the importance of these definitions to your exercise curriculum?
The higher your absolute strength, the higher your starting strength. The more your starting strength, the faster your increase of velocity, the faster your increase in speed, the greater your explosiveness or your ability to achieve your maximum speed faster. Ask yourself this, “Is my speed and agility training improving my absolute strength for those muscles that are significant in the sport I play?”
Relative strength is significant since the higher your relative strength, the more power you can produce. This benefits you in two ways; your nervous system is better conditioned and will even cross over into your quickness, and you will have less stuff to carry around. This also crosses over into speed.
A question to ask is whether your speed and agility training
improves your relative strength. Remember while working out for speed and agility your relative strength is more significant than your absolute strength. Note: you shouldn’t worry excessively concerning bulking up since a 10% increase in LEAN body mass translates into a 30% escalation in power.
Last but not least, we come to reactive strength. This kind of strength has a vital function in agility, it makes it possible for you to quickly change route and stun your opponent with surprising moves. It also helps you to jump higher when running (but not so much from a standstill stance). It also has a part in running speed although there are actually better ways to train for that if running speed is what you are after.
What’s the take away home from this article? So as to correctly work for speed and agility you have got to include strength training exercises in your regime. You should also customize it for the athletic endeavour you’re involved with. There can be no shortcuts however there are efficient ways of arriving at your goals (whatever they may be).
If this has bewildered you a little you should….
Here’s a food for thought subject for you. Why do sprinters (50, 100 meter dash, basketball players, quarterbacks etc) maintain ripped abs without particularly training for them? Obviously you have got to bear in mind that starting strength is different for distinct muscles groups and can be trained individually. Knowing which muscles play a role in the movements most critical in your athletic endeavour helps you to focus on them and generate quick and efficient results
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