Can Muscle Make You Slower? This isn’t an anti-strength or anti-...
Fred Duncan@Fred__Duncan
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Oct 13, 2025
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Can Muscle Make You Slower?
This isn’t an anti-strength or anti-muscle post.
I actually dedicate an entire chapter to this in my latest e-book, Speed Kills.
For most athletes, the answer is simple…you do need more muscle and you do need to get much stronger.
But at a
This isn’t an anti-strength or anti-muscle post.
I actually dedicate an entire chapter to this in my latest e-book, Speed Kills.
For most athletes, the answer is simple…you do need more muscle and you do need to get much stronger.
But at a
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certain point, it becomes less about adding and more about refining.
This is for the people who like nuance, who think beyond trends and start viewing performance through a sharper lens.
More scalpel than sledgehammer.
When you train this way, your programming changes.
This is for the people who like nuance, who think beyond trends and start viewing performance through a sharper lens.
More scalpel than sledgehammer.
When you train this way, your programming changes.
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You start realizing the goal isn’t just to accumulate strength, it’s to apply it efficiently. You begin paying attention to how limb mass, leverage, and coordination interact.
And you start noticing how elite sprinters and explosive athletes tend to share similar morphology,
And you start noticing how elite sprinters and explosive athletes tend to share similar morphology,
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powerful hips and thighs, lean lower legs, built for efficiency.
Is that nature or nurture? Probably both.
But it reminds us that training is about sequencing the right qualities at the right time.
That’s the level of detail I break down inside Speed Kills, how to build
Is that nature or nurture? Probably both.
But it reminds us that training is about sequencing the right qualities at the right time.
That’s the level of detail I break down inside Speed Kills, how to build
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