Take sled pushing or pulling, parachute training, or vest loading as examples of some resisted sprinting training methods. When using these forms of training, where during the gait cycle does the overload principally happen? Primarily during the stance phase, that is, you are exerting force to overcome that sprint specific overload during ground contact.
Are those methods of resisted sprint training overloading the musculature during the airborne/swing phase? Can we get the hip and knee flexor/extensors stronger during the swing phase using these training methods? This is one of the real advantages of limb loaded wearable resistance (WR) training, in that you are overloading the entire step cycle – stance and swing phases.
With lower limb loaded WR you’re getting a double whammy, strengthening of the flexors and extensors of the lower limbs. A 2 for 1 – stance and swing phase overload.
Does such loading give it an advantage over other forms of resisted sprint training?
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