What muscles make you run faster?

Answer 1

Your glutes. And your hamstrings. You have to stretch your hammys really good first. the quads,and calves too. just run all the way around a track full speed and when you feel your muscles burning these are the muscles that will need to get stronger if you want to run fast.

Answer 2

Human calf muscles are in fact directly helpful for faster running. Following the physiological principle that 'all things are connected,' improvement of the calf muscles will lead to improved running, just as will improvement of the many other leg muscles and other portions and functions of the body (such as lung-capacity and upper-body flexibility) that contribute to it.

Answer 3

It can do. Assuming you do no running already it depends on a few things, namely:

a) How muscular your legs already are

b) What type of running you're going to do - eg. Long distance, sprinting, intervals, hills etc...

c) Your weight

d) Your diet

If you are already lean but have very poorly developed legs then any kind of running should see some muscle growth. Hill sprint intervals are probably the best type of running exercise for building leg muscle.

If you train with weights for muscle size and then go running long distances then you will probably see the benefits of your weight training diminish as your body tries to burn off any muscle it doesn't need.

If you want muscular legs I'd recommend sprint intervals either on hills or on the flat, a protein rich diet and some weights routine such as barbell squats.

Answer 4

It helps a lot, but it isn't all. Weight, physiologic features, blood circulation, respiratory system without any problems, good nutrition, etc.