Plyometric push-ups
So you think you're fast…

Let's begin with a quote (I can't recall the author, but I have it on my bedroom wall):

"Speed kills. And gut-wrenching toil is the only way to improve it. Speed destroys the competition emotionally and physically. It eliminates your competition's opportunity to battle back and will render them useless. But to possess speed you must be prepared for the relentless and unyielding approach. While speed is the ultimate weapon of destruction, in truth it is manifested through the undeniable will of the human spirit."

High maximum speed does not by itself guarantee athletic success. EXPLOSIVE POWER is required to accelerate rapidly, change direction rapidly, or get your entire body or a body part moving rapidly.

"Fast, explosive movements of the entire body, which occur in the starting and acceleration phases of sprinting or of adjusting a body part to start a new movement or rapidly change direction, demonstrate an athlete's QUICKNESS."
Dintiman, Ward, Tellez Sports Speed, Human Kinetics 1997

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