People who love doing everything but sprinting arent going to like this one…. Yes, strength training, plyometric, and power traibing can help you get faster but they are bot a replacement for sprinting. They are supplemental to developing the quailites you need to sprint faster but without sprinting you will not see significant progress. They are more like a catalyst for speed development. Meaning when you do them + sprints you get more out of it. And Im speaking more developed athletes here. If your a novice and lack a lot of force and power out out and you focus on those yea you can come back faster because there was such a big deficit there. Big Guys you got to get out on the field and sprint. Everyone of you i talk with wants to be faster but avoids sprinting like the plague. Here is a little story from my personal life to drive this point home. I’m not a naturally fast athlete for reference. Ive spent the past 3+ years working on speed and doing all the right things in the gym to get faster. I had a trip to miami to train a client I kept training doing plyos lifting heavy doing power work and when i came back to teat my top speed it was about 1-1.5mph slower than previously before i left. The only difference in training was doing doing speed work. Im even 5lbs lighter now too. 1x/week to maintain 2-3 to improve. And it ahould be damn near year round. #speed #speedtraining #oline #dline #rugby