What are the best ways to improve ones ground contact time?
– Gain strength…what else?
As someone has already mentioned, improving MaxV is the best way to shorten ground contact times. I've been doing some reading on this lately, and I am tending to think shortened ground contact times are 'evidence', or a result, of increased speed, but not necessarily a 'path' to improved speed.
In other words, increasing MaxV will shorten ground contact times, but I'm not so sure doing specific work to shorten ground contact times will improve MaxV, unless that training directly improves MaxV. It's seems to me to be 'the cart before the horse', thing. Remember, correlation is not causation. The causal effect may flow one way (increased speed leads to shorter GC), but may not flow the other way (shorter GC leads to increased speed). If anyone has any references or other papers which discuss the causal relationship between GCT and MaxV, please post.