Components of Fitness: Speed

Speed is having the ability to travel, turn or react over a certain distance in an amount of time (inherited)

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Parachute Runs

What is it?

Parachute Runs are designed to help increase athlete's speed as well as power through resistance training.

This type of training is mainly used for sports teams, on a field, which helps the athlete's to develop explosive energy as well as power in their running stride.

What are the benefits of using this method of training?

Able to participant and is at a low-cost
It has an effective strategy as athlete's can use this anywhere as long as they are equipped with an easy-to-carry parachute.
To make this session harder the coach would make the athlete sprint a further distance or instead of the athlete walking to get them to sprint.

Result in getting ultra resistance and over speed training without a partner.
Able to improve your sprint speed, explosiveness, acceleration, stride length and the frequency in the athlete's performance.

There is a durable, high-quality, all weather rip stop nylon fabric that won't fray; which means the athlete can knowledge this will last a long time.

What are the disadvantages of using this method?

The athlete will need to know how to use the equipment properly before using it for any form of exercise, there is also the issue of using it in severe weather conditions such as a gale force wind. Lastly, there is the disadvantage of the cost, as this piece of equipment won't come cheap.

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This training method would be beneficial to sports such as athlete's in any form of running in a competitive way, such as football or rugby.
In football a defender would need speed to be able to keep up with the attacking players, to make tackles and to get to the ball before the attack does to stop them from scoring.