Safety in football..how do i gain more speed?

Question

i want to be a hard hitting safety for my team so how do i speed up to play safety? i was lb last year and wasn't all that fast so i need to speed up. i can hit ova the middle and make big hits and got a good eye for were the ball is going i just need some speed.

Answer 1

Work on your flexibility would be the eaisest wat to get faster remember flexibility equals speed. also try to get bigger calf muscles they increase your speed as well

Answer 2

jog a mile everyday and another speed drill is to tie a tire around your waist and run for 10 minutes on a football feild. that will give resistance and will help you run faster and give you agility and acceleration.  

Answer 3

funny answers u been getting. You need to sprint against someone faster then u ALOT. You need to build those fibers, in accordance with the same fibers you should hold a medicine ball (or something slighly lighter if its too heavy, but it needs to be a rubber ball) and squat down with it and jump in the air to maximum height and throw the ball up, let it fall. This will focus on explosion from the bent leg position, which is important. you also need to work on form, which will enable to you to hit ur max acceleration faster and maintain top speed longer. My little brother, whose account this is, is going to head into HS soon enough and i make sure we do this and lots of sprints as well. But as the other commenter said, you should do muscle excerises, but i would stay away from deadlift and such until later, because it could stunt your growth or you could easily injure yourself based upon how you do it form wise. -> if u strengthen everything.. ur core, ur upper/lower back/obliques, legs --> quads good, but hamstrings determine stride which u need to cover distance faster-> so dont neglect those bad boys. gl.

Answer 4

just do a lot of squats, deadlifts and also a lot of powerclings along with a front squat. You should also do a lot of sprints and agilty drills. Anything that can help you break on the ball when it's thrown and chnage directions quickly.  

Answer 5

lift lift and do more more lifting since you want your legs stronger since most of your speed comes from your thighs and your calves and do conditioning workouts like ladders which are you run from your goal line to the 80 and that would be 1do it for 7 more times then after each run take a 10-20 second rest then after the 8 times you run the 80 take a 2 minute rest then run from your goal line to the 60 and do the same thing you did with the 80 but you run to the 60 then a 2 minute rest then you do the same thing with the 40 8 times then a 2 minute rest then do it for the 10 for 8 times then a 2 minute rest then thats one and then another workout is a interval which is you run from one sideline to another sideline and you set it at 19 seconds and your whole tee to finish it in 21 seconds and every time your time goes over 19 seconds or 21 seconds your whole team has to do another interval once my team got up to 21 of these intervals and these will make your  feel like worse than jelly after your finish them