This is the last of 8 in a series about maximizing speed and quickness in your specific sport

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I hope these lessons have been helpful and given you the motivation to get out there excel in your sport with more speed and quickness in all of your athletic skills.

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Ask yourself these three questions about your ‘speed’ training program:

1) Does it require repetitions?
(You already know how repetitions affect muscle speed)

2) Does it take longer than ten minutes to complete?
(Speed training, as the name implies should be fast and not time consuming.)

3) Do I feel tired, heavy, and sluggish afterwards?
(Do you feel slower instead of faster when you’re done?)

If you answer yes to these questions, then you do not have a speed training program. You have a strength and endurance program.

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Through proper training muscles and nerves will learn and develop the neural networks and motor pathways necessary for exceptionally quick and immediate responses.

Technically this process is called neuromuscular reeducation, but it is simply how the body learns a specific sequence of movements without you having to think about how to do it.

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Your muscles are composed of basically 3 different fiber types. The fast twitch fibers are responsible for the speed of muscular contraction, or in other words how fast the muscle will contract or how quickly movement will occur.

And a fast twitch response is defined as the ability of a muscle to rapidly contract a specific distance over a short period of time.

When muscles have a specific target distance to contract to, and when you start training them to respond that way, their rate of contraction – and therefore their speed –  increases significantly.

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Remember, for optimum speed there are two things that need to happen:

First, the muscle’s memory needs to be ‘programmed’ so that the muscle contracts instinctively to the exact distance and with the same motion as the athletic skill.

Second, the speed at which the muscles contract needs to be maximized by fast twitch muscle fibers.

Have you ever tried to throw a baseball, swing a bat or golf club or kick a football after lifting weights or doing plyometric exercises?

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In any athletic activity, strength and endurance will always be an advantage.

But those with blazing speed or quickness in their athletic skill often make the difference between victory and defeat.

Now we are not just talking about running speed. We are talking about any skill that requires the muscles to react and contract quickly. That includes throwing, jumping, swinging, running, and kicking and any just about any other skill in sports like football, baseball, basketball, softball, golf, tennis, volleyball, track and field events, swimming, lacrosse, and many others.

Unfortunately there has been little guidance about how to be both strong and fast.

In fact speed training has been so disappointing in most athletes that it is commonly considered to be genetics that makes a person fast.

Yet you are about to discover the real reason most athletes do not achieve the speed they are looking for.

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 What is muscle contraction speed?

Let’s use the biceps muscle in your arm for an example. 

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