How To Increase Speed and Strengthen Your Muscles


What is the most effective way to increase speed of your muscle contraction? 

 ISOMETRIC TRAINING WITH THE RESISTANCE BAND
It's the quickest way to get faster. Every athlete with the desire to sprint faster and increase speed using conventional strength training methods will inevitably be faced with only two choices on how to do it

1. Increase the Strength in Your Legs, Thighs, Hips, and Ankles
One of the consequences of heavy exercise is the addition of extra body weight in the form of muscle, fat or both. Added weight in areas that are not relative to the skill simply becomes excess baggage.
More often than not, it won’t improve your speed if you increase your lower muscle strength and, in the process, gain 10 pounds. This added weight is carried with you wherever you go, and if you think you are going to be able to run faster or even jump higher with what amounts to a 10- or 15-pound vest strapped around your chest, you are mistaken.

Retain Your Current Level of Lower Body Strength and Drop About 5 Pounds.
Dropping weight may not seem like a big deal, but most often, a loss of even 5 pounds can significantly affect strength. Losing strength in your legs will make you slower, reduce vertical jumping ability; and, with regards to football, losing weight anywhere on your body may be a disadvantage for playing a collision sport.
Other Workout Options
There are other options you can utilize to increase speed and strength. One is to increase the contraction rate of your muscles — that make them contract faster.
Developing faster muscles involves the use of what is known as isometric contractions. Isometric contractions or isometric training is most often associated with weight training, where athletes typically use that strategy to get past sticking points in their lifts, most notably the bench press. But, isometric training with weights will not improve muscle contractions rates and therefore will not improve athletic speed and quickness.
Fortunately, there is another form of resistance that will have a much more dynamic effect on your muscle speed.  And, that’s the resistance band.
Resistance bands have what is known as a hyper-elastic potential. This means that to stretch the band farther, more effort is needed. When used properly with an isometric training strategy, the resistance band becomes the ideal training device to quickly increase your speed.
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The Resistance Band & Isometrics Give You Better Speed
To break through your current level of speed, you must find a way to stimulate your muscles differently. Deviate from the routines you've been doing. The resistance band with an isometric training strategy is exactly the type of change in your routine that you are probably lacking and which is needed to accomplish your speed goals.
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