How do u run faster and get better at it?

Question

See im joining the football team and wanna know how to get faster than i am already am. I want to be able to burn everyone u know. Oh oh teacher bye.

Answer 1

Do sprinting excersises, you have to get used to running out of breath...when you sprint, you use more oxygen than you can replace, you have to practice your breathing.

If you have the proper equipment, sometimes ankle weights help.

Answer 2

A couple of ways. First, once a day run between 2-5 miles nonstop (you will have to work up to this.) This will improve your leg strength and endurance. It won't make you immediately faster, but it will improve your endurance. By the fourth quarter you will still be fresh even after running quickly, while less in shape LBs or DBs (depending on whether you play running back or wide reciever) will be tired. You will run right by them. To improve your overall speed, run wind sprints. They are no fun but they help you. Do a lot of cardio exercises too. Make sure to do a lot of situps and ab exercises as they work your core which gives you a faster first few steps and a better ability to keep balance and change direction quickly. Work on your leg strength as well. Lift weights with your legs and work all the muscles to improve the speed your legs move at. Make sure to lose any fat you have because extra pounds slow you down. Also, when you workout focus less on your biceps because muscle is heavy, and once again that weight is less neccessary than leg muscle for your speed. Also, if you play on Friday nights, make sure you are well rested before the game. Try doing only a light workout on Thursday, and then on Friday right before the game, stretch very well and do another light work out with jogging and light weights. This will loosen up your legs and get your adrenaline pumping.
I hope this helps.

Answer 3

Try improving your form and working on your speed.

Talk to your football coach or one of the track coaches about proper running form and the drills you can do to improve your form. You can run faster if you move your feet in the most efficient way.

Speed workouts help as well. Work on short, fast runs to build up speed. Try running up a hill at a sprint a few times, doing 60 yard sprints, or accelerating (run 200m starting at a jog and working up to a sprint). Leg workouts with weights or machines are important, but if you bulk up too much without toning you'll actually make yourself slower. Try a few long runs of 2-6 miles to build endurance as well (so you don't get winded during a game).

Answer 4

This is an old, an very true, coaching saying .... "The one thing you can't teach is speed. You either have it or you don't." All the exercises and drills in the world will only have a marginal effect on your speed. For example, if you run a 5.0 second 40 before and then exercise, drill, etc. for 6 months you might get that 40 time down to 4.9 seconds. You will not suddenly become a 4.4 burner, it just won't happen.

Answer 5

Couple of different ways. My speed coach had me do the following. Of course a lot of it is genetic and you will only increase so much....

Weight train
Practice your arm pumping speed. Concentrate when you run on moving your arms as fast as you can. You can only move your legs as fast as your arms. You can work on this also by running in place and really pumping your arms.

Rubber band/Bungee cord. they make a harness for 2 runners where 1 person runs in front while the other stands still and the bungee gains tension. this causes the person in front to run against Resistance which will help to increase str and speed. The person in back waits till a lot of resistance builds up and then takes off at a sprint. The bungee PULLS him. Forcing you to move your feet and legs faster to keep up or you fall. This trains the legs to move faster.

Run steps.
Run lots of steps

Run sprints and concentrate on your first 8 steps beeing fast and strong. Really power out at the beginning.

Hope this helps.

Answer 6

The old school way of increasing your speed is to weight yourself down while you run. Either by carrying extra weight in a backpack (they make special backpacks for this), or by adding leg weights while you run.

The idea is similar to using a battin donut is the batter's circle. You will swing the bat faster when you take the donut off; your legs will move faster when you take the wights off of them.

Another way (though I don't suggest it) is to find a large dog on the street. Walk up to him and kick him in the nuts and then run. Fear is a great training tool.

Answer 7

I have coached football (American) for 7 years now, and the one thing that has consistently worked for my players in speed improvement is running track.

If you are in good shape, you probably are as fast as you are going to get, but with some coaching on your mechanics, you may be able to pick up some speed from your new technique.

Answer 8

Make sure you stretch before running. It helps alot. I can run alot better after strecthing. And just run, well jog alot. The more you do it the better you'll get. Wear comfortable running shoes and clothing and don't weigh yourself down. You can do that when you wear all that football gear.

Answer 9

whenever you jog, or do cardio exercising, sprint for as fast as you can for 15 seconds then rest for a minute while jogging. Do this a lot. and in no time, you shall be fast.

Answer 10

you have school well you're probably in detention or college and if you're in college you have no choice cuz college teams already have spots with 4 people backing up haha first answer