speed training
Getting faster practice
Speed training is exercise designed to increase how fast an athlete can move.
It typically involves sprints, agility drills, and explosive movements that develop quick-twitch muscle fibers: The team does speed training twice a week.
The term appears most often in sports contexts—track and field, football, soccer—where bursts of acceleration matter.
- agility drillsExercises improving quick movement
- sprintingMaximum-speed locomotion on foot
- fast twitchQuickly contracting muscle fibers
- plyometricsExplosive power exercise regimen
- hill sprintsRepeated uphill running efforts
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speed trainingendurance training
Exercise to sustain prolonged effort
marathon training · long-distance running · base building · aerobic conditioning