Speed Development
"Fast-twitch muscles: twitch and you’re gone – all you need to know about developing fast-twitch muscle fibre for speed, power and strength" John Shepherd
"Activating fast-twitch motor units is the key to improved strength, speed and power. Unlike slow-twitch motor units, which are responsible for most of our day-to-day muscular activity, fast-twitch units are quite lazy and tend to slumber until called to action.
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Peak Performance
"Four exercises to increase your running speed - help yourself" Michael Yessis
"there are a variety of lower-back, abdominal and upper body exercises that will increase your strength and improve your form. Coupling these sport-specific exercises with regular speed work will give you even more dramatic improvements in running speed."
Running and Fitness News Sep-Oct 2003
"Kinematic determinants of early acceleration in field sport athletes" Aron J. Murphy, Robert G. Lockie and Aaron J. Coutts
"subjects who are relatively fast in early acceleration achieve this through reduced ground contact times resulting in an improved stride frequency."
Journal of Sports Science and Medicine (2003) 2, 144-150
"Muscle fibre types: why tapering after intense training boosts sprinting
speed" Alun Williams and Mick Wilkinson
"it seems that a pattern of heavy resistance training followed by decreased activity causes first a decrease then an overshoot in the proportion of
the fastest fibre type in the trained/detrained muscle group."
Peak Performance
"Quality strength for human athletic performance: a guide to speed strength training" Charles Staley
"Although most athletic skills and events depend upon a variety of physical qualities, speed strength (also called power) certainly rates among the most important."
Think Muscle
"Resisted and assisted methods of speed development" A. Faccioni
"The purpose of this study was to determine whether the use of resisted training (speed sled), over-speed or supra-maximal training (speed belt), or a combination of both methods affects the development of speed over 20m, 40m, and 60m, greater than a control group."
Faccioni Speed and Conditioning Consultancy
"Speed training for team sport athletes" A. Faccioni
"Speed strength characteristics can be developed in the weight room, but it is my opinion that in the weight room situation maximal strength training should be emphasised."
Faccioni Speed and Conditioning Consultancy
"Sprint mechanics revisited" Jeff L. Hoskisson
"The goal of all sprinters should be to spend as little time on the ground as possible. In order to achieve this, the sprinter needs the necessary strength to get them through the correct cycle."
gillathletics.com
"Strength training for speed development" Harry Marra
"The ability to recruit all of the muscles that you need to perform a skill is the foundation of what technique is all about. Hence, in sprinting, strength from the top of the head to the tips of the toes is important to develop and be able to use functionally. Therefore, a tremendous amount of work needs to be done on the upper body, the lower body and the mid torso / abs region."
gillathletics.com
"The pros and cons of using resisted and assisted training methods with high school sprinters - parachutes, tubing, and towing" Ken Jakalski
"the greatest gains in improving sprinting speed come not from any single activity, training device, or workout, but from advancing the training age of athletes through the continuity of warm-up activities and drills that become part of each athlete's conditioning routine for each of the sports he or she competes in throughout the year."
Track Coach 144 - Summer 1998
"The role of the mid-torso in speed development" A. Faccioni
"the trunk has a critical role in the maintenance of stability and balance when performing movements with the extremities."
Faccioni Speed and Conditioning Consultancy
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