Want to sprint faster? Try upping your squat.

Want to sprint faster? Try upping your squat. Researchers at the American Appalachian State University conducted a study to see if squat strength had a strong correlation with sprinting speed in football players. What they found was that the players who could squat 2.1 times their own body weight were, on average, faster in a 10- and 40-yard dash (that’s 9 and 37 metres, respectively, for all us Canadians) than those who squatted less than 1.9 times their bodyweight.