How does resistance training improve power and speed?

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Matt Eiden · Answer

When you think about power, strength times speed equals power. So you have to be strong and then you have to be fast in order to be powerful. So with resistance training, there's lots of different ways you can resistance train to improve your speed and power. Now if you're just trying to improve your strength, you could do slower eccentric exercises, exercises that lengthen your time and retention to break down more muscle tissue and build more strength. And that should improve your power and your speed. It should have a positive effect on that just by getting stronger. So the strength aspect, the more force you can put into the ground, the more power and speed you should have. So resistance training is really important when it comes to part of the equation of power. The other way you can resistance train is do speed strength, do resistance exercises, or maybe you lift heavier weights quicker and you drop it without the eccentric, or maybe you do more resistance training where you move fast like Med balls or lighter weights and just try to move it as fast as you can on your Deadlift or your Squat or whatever it is you're working on. So working more on the speed-strength continuum as well. So finding a balance of all of those when it comes to resistance training should help improve your speed and your power.

Ryan Murphy · Answer

I think resistance training in general just helps you just helps provide more feedback as to where your as to where you're in a fission and your stroke. So I when you're when you're just swimming without resistance you can you can pretty much carry momentum pretty well once drove to the other when you're using resistance. That's not the case. So you see there's a little bit more feedback as to where as to where you need to improve. So, I would say that's So that helps speed on the power side. I mean, that's really a straightforward. Like if if it's harder to if it's harder to move given that given the resistance, you're probably going to pull a little bit harder or kick a little bit harder so that helps the power.

Jim Heafner · Answer

We need resistance training to maximize Force production, but then we also at the same time need to do other specific training for power and speed and that will be at some sort of resistance level. So there is a huge carryover resistance training is necessary for power and speed, but then there's going to be a trade off to where we also need to train power and speed individually to maximize both of those. Because strength is so fundamental for all sports. But then too much strength you could say or too much strength. You can then slow down other properties of athleticism which is where power and speed can get compromised if you're doing too much resistance training. So as with everything, it's finding that sweet spot. But as a foundational point for power and speed resistance, training is extremely important.

Tim Crowley · Answer

How does resistance training improve power and speed? We think of the basic definition of power, its force times distance divided by time. In other words, we need to express force in a fast, you know, manner, whether that's jumping throwing excetera. So, if we're using the vertical jump as an example, we have two components here, we need to develop force and we develop speed, a lot of athletes, especially in the beginning, need to develop the for side of the equation, which is the strength side, the ability to Project Force into the ground. You know, quickly and forcefully. Then we also need to have the speed component as well. So if an athlete only does strength training, that is slow and controlled, they're going to build the for side but they may not maximize the power side of the equation. So with the power, we want to be moving it quickly. We should always be aiming to move any resistance training intent and a fast motion. If it's heavy the we're still trying to move it fast but because the resistance it's going to move a bit slower. If we lighten the load a little bit too about sixty percent of Max then we're going to be accelerating and really getting our maximal power and then from those power strength exercises we need to then move into sports specific movements, sprinting throwing striking a ball in order to generate the maximal speed. So we need all three, so Force then power. And then speed.

Emma Pallant-Browne · Answer

So I think resistance training definitely improves your speed and power and the way it does it I kind of like the resistance Journey that is really super functional. So for example wearing your drag pants in the swim or training on that training that heavy resistance wheel or for the run just having maybe. Yeah I have your shoes on or whatever it is doing the functional activity a little bit harder and And then, all big gear work even on the bike because then when it's, when you've got more resistance against you actually doing the thing that you're trying to train for, you're going to get less dead spots. So your Technique is so much better and it improves efficiency and you can also feel. If there is a slight glitch, kind of in your pedal stroke, you feel it straight away. So I'd say a lot of it is because you can improve efficiency and then second obviously, You're really building up your muscles and yeah you having to work that much harder to overcome kind of their added resistance. So it's definitely a place for it and obviously the bigger your power and then yeah, if you're doing it right, hopefully, the faster you can go

Barry Anderson · Answer

The more muscle mass, you have, the more power, those muscles can produce that does not necessarily mean speed speed and power are two different things but if you want to develop power, you have to do resistance training. If you want to be fast and you want to have speed, you have to do some speed training and working on things like Cadence.

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