Weight Training for Increased Speed

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Otis St. Clair and today I'm here to talk to you about weight training for increased speed. We are going to talk about two main exercises that we can do using weights to increase our speed to build power in our legs and get faster. First thing we are going to do is we are going to do one leg steps using a bar bell and weights. What we do is place the bar on our back, find a box or stairs to use and we make an explosive move up using our leg that is planted on the box like so, come back down and switch legs. Again this exercise develops power, explosiveness in our lower body, our thighs, our gluts and our lower calves. The next exercise we are going to do is the sled pull so if you will follow me over here we are going to use weight to pull the sled to help increase our power and our strength. What we have here is a sled with weight that is on it attached to a harness. What we'll do is place ourselves in our harness, buckle our seat belts because that's the law and now we'll go for a ride. Again this is going to develop power and explosiveness by pulling weight behind us. That's a lot of weight. But again the two exercises we talked about today were the step ups, one leg and our sled pull. Doing those two exercises will help increase your speed and your power and it will definitely make you run faster. My name is Otis, have a good day."