Speed Interval Training

To improve your speed fitness component you can do lots of different training methods. You could use PNF to improve your flexibility or plyometrics to improve your explosive strength. We've done both of these methods so in this session we did speed interval training.
We did sprinting drills and techniques with a shorter duration but working at maximal intensity. We sprinted 8 x 10 metres, 6 x 20m, 4 x 40m and 2 x 60m. In between each run we had a recovery time whilst slowly walking back to the start line. We used two different starting techniques the first was a crouching one where we placed our stronger leg in front with the opposite arm stretched out. The second start we did was the rolling start where we started further behind the line and gradually picked up the speed and once we hit the starting line it was maximal. Speed interval training targets fast twitch muscle fibres which contract quickly but rapidly get tired.