Why Your Sprint Training Comes Too Late

It's the same in almost every club: sprints come at the end of the session, when the legs are heavy and focus is gone. At that point you're training all sorts of things, just not speed.

The window is at the start

Maximum sprint quality needs a fresh nervous system. If you take speed seriously, you schedule it right after the warm-up, with full rest and few but perfect repetitions. Ten minutes are enough, if they're in the right place.

Quality beats volume

Three clean sprints with complete recovery do more than fifteen tired ones. To many coaches that feels like too little. The stopwatch says otherwise.

“Speed isn't a reward for good training. It's a skill with its own timeline.”