To start off let’s discuss what speed is. In most cases, speed is how quickly you can go from a standing position to running. Being faster will help almost all athletes regardless of what sport they play. Speed can be your strength, your endurance and your top speed. Increasing your speed involves working on all these factores and improving them. Speed training is something that no athlete should ignore.
So, how can athletes develop speed? You can use sprinting drills where you start with a slow jog and then slowly work your way up to running as fast as you can. You always want to do a proper warm up and get your muscles loose. To improve your stride length you wan to work on training your msucle strength and power. Speed drills take a different approach than other training and require you to develop great flexibility. The speed and strength should be paralleled develop. The skill development technique must be learned in advance, practiced, and perfected before it is performed at such high speed levels.
Speed training is done by performing high velocity for intervals that are brief or short. Doing high reps or long duration exercises will work on your endurance and not your speed and quickness. Developing speed is a very specific type of training and needs to be done in a very controlled manner.
For a runner to be able to move faster and more quickly the muscles of the legs must contract much more quickly and the nervous system and brain must control these movements more efficiently. Speed is a technique that is learned in the muscles and in your brain and missing one or the other will greatly reduce your results. In doing this, an athlete can maintain or even increase his speed and be successful in his chosen sports.