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I was the slowest runner out of all of my classmates in athletics last year. The coaches used to time us in basketball to make sure we're running fast enough. I never made it. I mean, i wasn't that far behind. I was only slow by like 3 seconds. But, it mattered. It mattered to every student, because when i didn't make it.. we had to run all over again. I absolutely love playing basketball and I think I'm pretty good. I know you arn't into basketball and all, but please answer my question, it's a deciding factor for high school. Do you have any advice or ways that I can get much faster???
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hum.. hum hum.. Well, having the fact that I do play soccer.. I would know some things about speed, though there are two kinds of speed, and two kinds of ways your muscles can adjust. In your muscles are fast twitch and slow twitch reflexes. Fast twitch are more for the sprinting type of thing your talking about, where as slow twitch are more for the cross country or endurance runner. Down side to these muscles are that you can never have high levels of both, you are one way or another, or at least this is what my coach says. (who knows, he's a crazy old person.. *shrug*) For this, because soccer players need to have plenty of speed, he has a speed camp to build up the fast twitch reflexes in our muscles. There are a lot of small little things that make you have to react and move faster that we do at soccer, primarily a "speed camp" my coach holds... some examples..
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hoops - he sets some plastic hoops out in a sort of flower pattern, you jump and change which foot is in the hoop every time and go all the way around the circle. Sometimes we do about like 3 reps one way, and then 3 the other. Since you don't have hoops, just take some chalk and make circles on the ground.
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hurdles - There are small hurdles we use (he sets some wood blocks ontop of cones so that it's lower than a normal hurdle) and you do two steps in between each going as fast as you can.
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crates - You those plastic crates? the ones that you can see inside, and they are those boxes. Well, that can be an easy tool. Just set it down, opening facing the ground. Jump over the box, placing your foot on the top (the one that's closest to the box on that side) You can do this in intervals, like pyramids. 30 sec, 45 sec, 1 min.. back down. And who says you have to use a box, use your little brother if you want, anything you can jump over will do.
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I hope I provided plenty of ideas for you, good luck with your times and with basketball.. :)
p.s. excuse the sloppiness of my pictures, just thought that would more easily explain things..
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