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Originally Posted by D as in David
How easy is it to determine or get a sense of a player's fast-twitch muscles? Is it something that could be determined at the combine? It would be great tool to be able to forecast a player's potential to increase their speed.
Posters keep bringing up players who were able to significantly increase their skating speed - how do we know whether they were able to because they put effort into it or that they put effort into AND they had fast-twitch muscles?
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There are different parts to improving
A large portion of the training to target and develop fast and slow twitch muscles is done in the gym with targeted exercises
Then there is technique which only can be developed and practiced on ice