| Football speed training is taking on more important | | | | most football sped training programs. Yet the faster |
| role in football training; becoming king in football. It | | | | you can raise your thighs upward and forward, the |
| has become just as important as the weight lifting | | | | quicker your muscles react and the faster you |
| programs. Coaches and players alike recognize they | | | | accelerate, hitting the open hole, getting that step, |
| need power to be faster and the need to | | | | speeding past a defensive back or just exhibiting |
| incorporate football speed training in their football | | | | break-away speed from would be tacklers. |
| training regimens, whether it is in season or off | | | | Exercising Fast Twitch Muscles |
| season, learning how to run quicker and have | | | | How do you effectively train this muscle group? |
| explosive acceleration has become important to the | | | | Isometrics combined with resistance training. |
| game off football. | | | | Yes isometrics, they focus strictly on one specific |
| Coaches are recognizing offensive and defensive | | | | muscle group. Resistance training gives them the |
| lineman need quick acceleration to explode on the | | | | strength needed for explosive reaction acceleration, |
| LOS. Running backs need to accelerate to hit the | | | | whether you are a ball carrier looking for that |
| holes and receivers to get that step on the | | | | break-away quickness or a lineman needing to move |
| defensive backs. Being fast is good, but colleges | | | | quickly side to side. |
| want more. They are looking for athletes with the | | | | The resistance phase of the isometrics is applied |
| most explosive acceleration from the starting position. | | | | using resistance bands, flexing the muscle fibers. |
| This article will focus only on the acceleration aspects | | | | Isometric resistance training develops important |
| of speed training for football. | | | | muscle memory for that explosive quickness, as you |
| Successful speed training for football must include | | | | condition your muscles for speed and quickness: you |
| exercises that will focus on the fast twitch muscles. | | | | will be training the muscle nuero pathways which |
| This muscle group determines your speed and | | | | create muscle memory. |
| reaction time. Most football speed training programs | | | | In conclusion adding isometric resistance training |
| overlook this facet of training; instead they are | | | | allows you to focus on your fast twitch muscles for |
| focused on strength and power. | | | | your football speed training. This will increase both |
| Fast Twitch Muscles | | | | your speed and reaction time. Fast twitch muscles |
| Fast twitch muscles are the muscle fibers responsible | | | | train faster then the slow twitch muscles that build |
| for speed and quickness and should be trained | | | | strength and power. When you are looking at sped |
| separately from the muscles you train for strength | | | | training programs, make sure they include working |
| and power. | | | | the fast twitch muscles for your football speed |
| An example of fast twitch muscles is the thigh flexor | | | | training. |
| muscles. Frequently this muscle group is overlooked in | | | | |