You guys say that sprinting everyday a lot will not make you faster…NEWSFLASH, IT WILL!!!
In football we sprinted every goddamn day, Mon-fri, rain or shine. and this is how we did it.
We would sprint a distance and sprint back.
80yds and back
75 yds and back
70 yds and back
untill you get to 0yds
We had barely any rest inbetween reps.
We were fast as hell by the time the season was over.
Why is this?
You would be “faster than hell” if you trained properly. 
Trust me coaches of world record holders (Like Charlie) and other top level athletes/sprinters know a thing or two about speed development.
Cheers,
Chris
I agree with Chris… you simply did not improve your top speed very much by doing “suicides” you improved your general enurance (conditioning) possibly as well as your speed endurance which is only a minor part of the equation. When you say by the end of the season you were “faster than hell” what was this based upon? Did you time yourself(s) preseason mid season and post season?
Sprinting every day only makes you faster if:
a. You start out “slower than hell”
b. You manage to stay uninjured
Even then, once you reach a modest level of proficiency, your progress will grind to a halt and you will need to plan your training more carefully.
Originally posted by irishdago
You guys say that sprinting everyday a lot will not make you faster…NEWSFLASH, IT WILL!!!
Irishdago…
Look at it this way…If I tell you to do 100 push ups as fast as you can…then I let you rest for 30 seconds and tell you to do another 100 at the same speed, you won’t be able to do it will you? Of course not. Well with speed training, you need a certain amount of rest in order to be able to run at your top speed. This amount is slighly dependent on where you are at in your development, but it ranges from 48 to 36 hours or more.
Now, if you never run fast in practice, do you think you will run fast in a competition? Of course not. In order to run fast in a competition, we need to run fast in practice. And, in order to run fast in practice, we need to be fully rested.
Don’t believe me…try doing bench press at your max, every day for the next 2 weeks and let us know how much you have improved at the end of it. Chances are you will be lifting LESS than when you started or you will be injured.
with love…
herb
Originally posted by Herb
Irishdago…Look at it this way…If I tell you to do 100 push ups as fast as you can…then I let you rest for 30 seconds and tell you to do another 100 at the same speed, you won’t be able to do it will you? Of course not. Well with speed training, you need a certain amount of rest in order to be able to run at your top speed. This amount is slighly dependent on where you are at in your development, but it ranges from 48 to 36 hours or more.
Now, if you never run fast in practice, do you think you will run fast in a competition? Of course not. In order to run fast in a competition, we need to run fast in practice. And, in order to run fast in practice, we need to be fully rested.
Don’t believe me…try doing bench press at your max, every day for the next 2 weeks and let us know how much you have improved at the end of it. Chances are you will be lifting LESS than when you started or you will be injured.
with love…
herb
Couldn’t of said it better myself:) it makes me laugh when people come out with statements like the one above, The only way i think you can achieve this is if you work at very low intensity on some days, but you state full sprints.
Its a one way ticket to injury, long term planning and implementation is the best method in this game, as many will reasure you
B-R
your anaerobic capacity and possibly aerobic threshold would have improved a great deal. You would be fit as hell and feel like a machine. In a rugby game you would still be running fast at the end of the game with that type of training perhaps also leading you to your conclusion of faster than hell.
There is also something else to bear in mind. We’ve touched on this lately; those that don’t have a great deal of speed will not smash there central nervous system with 5 day a weak sprint work. Especially
if it is sub-maximal speed, as in “suicides”.
Plus, you was doing your sprints on the grass which would not have been as hard on your body as sprinting on the track.
Our football field is harder than a track. Kids on our team had knee problems by mid-season and ankle problems by mid-season because it was so hard. It was like cement. There were rocks on it, glass, a very crappy field.
Herb, again well said… I like the example you used. ill have to use that one.
Kids on your team had knee and ankle probs because they did speed training every day! 
Chris