Can science make you faster ?

                                                Make you faster !  

This web quest is going to take you on a journey throughout different sites , to help you understand more about how science can make you faster. Sometimes, despite you doing everything as well as you can for an athlete they just don’t have it together mentally on game day and their great build up just goes to waste. All those hours in the gym wasted. Other times, you catch them playing video games on the couch and eating junk and they still go out and win.A recent study on the effect of squat performance on sprinting ability showed that gains were primarily seen only in recreational sprinters.1 What this study found was that leg drive was more important for acceleration over shorter duration sprints. However, in longer efforts – 10m or more – increases in maximal strength DID NOT increase sprint performance in elite athletes, only in their recreational counterparts. What is most striking about this is there was no great difference in levels of relative strength between the two groups (while the elites did have a greater degree of maximal strength, due to increased body weight, there was little discernible difference between strength to weight ratio of the two groups).