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To improve your sprinting abilities there are many thing you can do. Drills are very common because they also help on improving you form and training your muscles to perform in the proper way. Simple drills such as high knees, butt kicks, skips, and many more can improve your time. These drills are just few of the many which are beneficial to your sprint workout. Not only can they be used to work on form but to warm up for your workouts. High knees build strength and power in your hip, increasing the drive in your sprint. Butt kicks help to develop the sprint action of the leg along with the drive of your trail leg. Skips are simple and do a lot for you. Skips create your proper foot placement and prepare your feet for every time it strikes the ground. You can tell if someone works on drills a lot because they tend to have great form. There are many things that make up sprinting and can change your overall performance. All of the top sprinters warm up with these types of drills and perform them on a daily basis. Some of these may not be easy to complete but you have to practice and learn the technique. Start out with the basic drills and work your way up to the more complicated ones. So many drills are out there and not all work for you. You have to practice and go through them to figure out which suite you best. While doing drills it is recommended to do them on a soft surface such as grass so the pounding on your feet does not strain you. You are also not recommended to wear track spikes while doing drills, so I would prefer running shoe of some sort. It is the simple things about sprinting that affects the entire outcome. Perfecting the key points is so important that you will not get any better without it. Sprinters such as Usain Bolt and Tyson gay are on routines of where they warm up with a series of stretches and drills then move onto their workout. After the workout they repeat the stretches to cool down. This kind of routine is what is needed to improve your abilities.