does stregnthing the thigh muscles help to sprint faster?

Question

I would like to sprint faster and I know that I need explosive power. I have absolutely no muscle strength in my thighs (i have no cuts, nothing). So would working the thigh muscles have any improvement on explosive speed?

Answer 1

Yes, The thighs are very important.
Your quads, the top muscles and outter muscles on your leg help to push off the ground harder, and your hamstrings/ glutes (the back and inside parts of your leg) help to pull your legs down.
Make sure that when you start to workout, you do alot of squats and lunges, they help more than anything. Also try leg raises and leg press as well as leg curls on a weight bench.

any other questions about it, just ask.

Answer 2

Yes, mine are always sore as crap after a lot of sprinting. But that's not the only important muscle, you need to work pretty much all of your leg muscles. Calves, thighs, hamstrings, glutes, everything. If you just go out on a track or football field everyday and run 100meters as hard as you can 5-10 times, you'll build muscles in all those areas. And if you think one of your muscles is weaker than all the others, just train it in the weightroom or in whatever way you can.

Answer 3

yeah, it would help to be a sprinter. but make sure you workout your other muscles too like ur hamstrings and your calfs because you dont want a muscle inbalance and get an injury. keys to sprinting are looking straight and never looking around, pumping arms as fast as you can (make sure you have proper form and not to be moving it too far back.) and also a good running form, you should ask some other sprinters to show you the form of it.

Answer 4

If you're talking about the quadriceps, then Yeah I guess so. But not necessarily more than upper body strength. Sprint races are almost 100% upper body strength.