hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be going over
the five landing mistakes are going to make you slower and we'll start video right now
alright so obviously we're not trying to get slower but i do think that there's a lot of times
where understanding what not to do can really help you in being able to better understand what to
do and if we can kind of get some of that clutter out of the mind of like what are some of the
things that are really having a negative impact on your overall performance especially when it comes
to sprinting it really makes it so you can get on a clear straight and narrow path to improving your
speed so first thing we're going to go into is going to be landing too far out in front right
we're going to go over five different things here landing too far out in front so you can see and we
want to go over what usain bolt does amazingly and you know i'm not going to necessarily compare it
to you know somebody that is not doing uh it correctly but i want you to be able to
just understand that where he is in the alignment of the foot right where he's pulling that foot
underneath and he's basically landing with his foot and head right underneath each other that's
where you want to be right so if you can see a video of yourself landing and you're not in that
position then you're landing with your foot two out and too far out in front and that's something
that you're going to want to address want to improve and that is making you slower overall
second thing is going to be landing in like the middle of the foot or the heel right so you can
see as he's coming through here he's landing on you know the ball of the foot to kind of toe area
he's not landing on his heel he's not landing in like the middle part of his foot right he's
landing on his forefoot right he's landing on the front part of his foot not the middle
not the back make sure you're landing on like the toe forefoot in order to really make it so you can
propel forward and if you're landing anywhere you know outside of that position it could really have
a negative impact now you know we can go deeper into that and say you know he's landing a little
bit more on the inside part of his big toe as if like that's the first part that's kind of hitting
the ground there but he's a little bit different on each foot right so you could see and it
might even be a little bit more on the outside on the right side or on his right foot and then
on the left he does a little bit more on you know the inside so point being is while he is on the
forefoot you can be on both the inside or the outside part of the foot when the foot is laning
the big thing is that it just wants to be you know a little bit more forward so you can see he's a
little bit more on the outside which allows him to be able to generate a good amount of lateral force
as he's going through most importantly the thing though again is making sure you're not landing in
the back of the foot or you know more towards the heel or in the middle of the foot those two things
are definitely making you slower number three is collapsing of the arch so when his foot hits
the ground being able to really stabilize that position there is going to be a degree of natural
pronation that's happening but pronation is different than collapsing of the arch when you're
landing and your your arch is collapsing then you are just losing complete control of your middle
part of your foot where if you're going through pronation that is an action that is something that
is controlled through the deceleration phase of the ankle and so we want to be able to justify and
see exactly what those differences are very very minut right you have to kind of get coached up on
this why this is why i really say that you know doing the breakdowns or something like that are
going to be much more effective because you know if you invest in yourself here it makes it so then
you have a professional that's going to be able to help you out instead of you trying to kind of
figure out you know these types of things on your own if you could just focus on being a sprinter
then it makes it so then you know you could really excel at that but if you're trying to
focus too much on being you know what i do of biomechanics exercise science you know kinesiology
then you might get too cut up in that and not enough into the sprinting so
you know just a thought for you to be able to do the breakdowns if you want to there's the
description down below but big thing is being able to understand you know not collapsing in the arch
if that ends up happening to you then that is a thing that's making you slower number three
all right last or all right so the next thing is going to be moving the leg horizontally right so
if you are not moving the leg horizontally at foot contact that is making you slower so if you are
touching the ground vertically right this would be vertical plane there horizontally is
that way right so you can see how there's a horizontal movement as he's hitting the ground if
your foot is again not moving horizontally it is making you slower number four and number five is a
big asymmetry between foot position and i really had to think good about making sure that this is
something that could come across as beneficial for you because you know i see people that when they
land their foot ends up really turning out to the side on one side and the other side is much more
straight right because it's hard to be able to say that your your toes need to be perfectly straight
at landing right you can see there's external rotation of the tibia and there's a lot of these
guys that are doing that right there's a lot of people that are having a good amount of external
rotation within the legs so you know it's not something that is going to be a make it or break
it if you have external rotation during landing in the tibia or in the femur or in the foot in
general and while that might not necessarily be the most biomechanical efficient thing
there are parts of that could still allow you to excel but what you end up getting into trouble is
if there's a lot of external rotation on one foot but not a lot of external rotation on the other
foot creating asymmetry creating asymmetrical patterns within your body which then makes it so
you're more at risk for injury and also makes it so you're really not able to control the landing
kind of deceleration phases is good so making sure that you could really create an environment where
you have some degree of you know symmetry you can't be perfectly symmetrical from one side to
the other but we find that with the more asymmetry that you have from one side to the other side
it puts you a lot more at risk for injury so you know there is a degree and there's probably
not a perfect number you know maybe some degree somewhere between like 15 to 25 would be my guess
would be the degree of external rotation that we want to be able to create variability within
but once you get into you know big rotation within that foot right so let's say you're straight here
and then you're at a 45 with your other foot now you know you're really setting yourself up to be
using a totally different muscle pattern on each leg which when you do that over and over and over
again it creates those rotational forces which put you a little bit more risk for over stretching
your muscle which creates like poles tears things like that so last thing is creating too much or
having too much asymmetrical difference between one side and the other side making you slower
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