Can power help me run faster?

Runner Questions: Can power help me run faster?

This is a common running question (not just when Running with Power).

There are three ways that you can run faster:

✅ Improve your fitness. If you’re fitter, you should be able to maintain a higher effort, which should mean a higher speed and a quicker finish time.

✅ Improve your form. If you improve how you run, you should be able to run faster for the same effort, resulting in a quicker finish time.

✅ Improve both … although it’s much easier to improve your fitness than to improve your form

How can you improve your fitness?

By training.

Ideally, using a training plan that includes both running and strength or other supplementary workouts, as well as recovery time.

Strength or other supplementary workouts will improve (or maintain) your whole-body fitness.

Recovery gives your body time to respond to the training – you become fitter during recovery time (not during workouts).

Power measures fitness improvements using your Threshold Power.

How can you improve your form?

Using drills, plyometrics, hill runs and other activities.

You could also try specific interventions (under the supervision of a running physio or specialist running coach) to change your gait, but these are much harder to embed.

Power measures form improvements using Running Effectiveness.

Is there any other way to get faster?

No.

You have to do the work – to get fitter, to improve your form, or both.

There aren’t any shortcuts 🙂