How to Improve Acceleration
Published: Tue, 01/04/11
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Greetings / Salve,
I want to wish everyone a happy and healthy New Year. Being injury free is the key to consistent training, and therefore getting good results. I’m certainly not training to run slower than my previous races. How to Improve Acceleration I am taking lessons from Lyle McDonald of The Protein Book by writing multi-part series. Trying to cram 2000-3000 words in a single Blog post proves to be too daunting for most readers. The average Blog post has 350-400 words. You may have read the Sports and Energy drinks guide last month. This month was dedicated to a series on How to Improve Acceleration. Part 1, which discussed hip mechanics, can be found here. Part 2 discussed several types of Resistance Running can be found here.
Part 3 and 4, written by Jim Hiserman, discusses The Role of Strength and Power Training. For easier reading, I created a single 8 page PDF format.
I’ll finish off Part 5 on Plyometrics later this month.
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