Sprinting helps keep your muscles fast and powerful as you age by improving how your brain talks to your muscles.

Sprinting might help you stay younger on the inside by keeping your muscles, nerves, and metabolism in top shape.

Sprinting helps build explosive muscle power because it makes your muscles push hard and move fast at the same time—like a car accelerating quickly—and that combo naturally boosts your ability to explode into action.

Both training methods made athletes jump higher and turn faster, but didn’t make them run straight-line sprints any faster.

When you sprint, your body mainly uses fast-twitch muscles that give you quick, powerful bursts of energy, but they get tired really fast.