www.speedtrainingsecrets.com. The quickest way for athletes to run faster is to condition their hip flexor muscles. Training these muscles for speed will quickly make a huge improvement in your running speed and make you a faster athlete. Your hip flexors are some of the longest and strongest muscles in your body but, they are essentially dormant in most athletes, meaning, they have never been activated for speed or exercised properly for any athletic function other than walking. Yet most speed training programs do not give any emphasis to this muscle group. As their name implies, their function is to flex the hip or to flex the thigh up on the pelvis and they play a major role in 1) running faster, 2) jumping higher and 3) kicking farther. However, since these muscles are hidden deep within the midsection of your body, they usually go unnoticed and ignored in most speed training exercises. If you have weak hip flexors you will never perform at your highest level and will always feel like you are stuck in second gear. Properly training your hip flexors for speed will quickly and significantly improve your 1) running speed, 2) jumping height, 3) jumping distance, 4) kicking height and 5) kicking distance in football, baseball, basketball and soccer. http