hey what's up everyone morey croson here and we have an excellent video
for you today we're gonna be talking about when you should be pushing
off the back leg when sprinting and we'll start the video right now
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all right so a lot of us know here especially you've been watching this channel for a while
the importance of rhythm and timing when it comes to sprinting i talked about that at least in the
last three videos i think i've said that every single time and you know here is going to be
another great opportunity for you guys to learn more about the importance of having the great
rhythm and having a great time and being able to really connect to your body to make sure that
everything is happening in the the right rhythm to make it so you're able to run fast right and and
i think a lot of times what you want to be able to do is you want to think about how you can optimize
this to make it so you're able to really perform at the highest ability you know in order the
fastest capabilities and still be able to maintain you know the best proper mechanics and being able
to build off of that will help you in really being able to achieve a lot of long-term success here so
we have usain bolt here on the left you know one of the greatest ever we have marcel jacobs i like
this video just because it's a little bit more clear but you can see here what ends up being
the main part here right i don't want to over complicate it this isn't going to be a long video
but we could see when the push off is happening right so what happens here is you know again this
video is not as clear so he's pushing off the ground right here and also what's happening at
the same time is he's getting maximum knee flexion right so this is where he ends up cutting off with
his knee flexion from here he ends up driving back to the ground so what ends up being the important
part here we'll see this with everybody right is when your foot is towing off the ground is
simultaneous with when you're going to be at the max knee height so now what happens is that you
want to pull back down with the foot and this is when you start to get that knee extension right so
now you can see that knee extension happening and then also knee flexion with that back leg right
so now the knee the back leg's coming forward that front leg ends up pulling back underneath to make
it so then you know going back into that video that we uh made a couple days ago that foot ends
up hitting the ground with the you know swing leg coming back and forward and through and what ends
up being important here you know an important thing to be able to consider is that really as
long as that swing leg foot ends up being at that knee height or above that's really all that you
need in order to really maintain great front side mechanics right you don't want to necessarily have
that foot you know it doesn't have to be super high up right you can see fred curley here has
that high that foot really really high up you know as you come through he still ends up having that
for the good position as he's coming through but a lot of times you know i i'm more on the side of
where what marcel jacobs is doing here where he goes and and pushes you know or drives that knee
through a little bit lower with his foot instead of getting it so far so high up but even you know
fred curley has that same timing so his foot's coming off the ground and then from here you know
he's at he's starting to get that knee extension going to then be able to pull back underneath
so that ends up being what you know really elite sprinters are able to do and and you know you want
to be able to think about some of these things and really you know watch to see what are you doing to
be able to maximize you know these types of things go into distance per step as well as leg turnover
but you got to have great leg turnover overall or your legs moving fast right and being able
to really time up pushing off that the ground and simultaneously being at that that max hip
flexion right so then from here now we're driving that knee through that back knee through and that
swing leg as we're driving that front foot down and through and maximizing hip extension so
we got one side hip flexion one side hip extension you know then we're flipping there and then that
timing of when that foot's coming off the ground is when that knee is going to be at the the max
height position so then we can pull back and pull forward and just being able to really sink
that together as you're able to really sync up your arms and your upper body as well so every
single time you make a change within the lower body you want to be able to make the the same
adjustment within um you know the the opposite thing so if you're making a change within the
lower body you want to make a change in the upper body right or vice versa right if you're making
a change with an upper body you want to be able to make a simultaneous change in the lower body
or at least connect what it is that you're doing within the lower body with the upper body to make
it so that everything is working in coordination with each other rather than just making a change
within the lower body because a lot of times i could throw off you know some of the timing that
should be happening when you're sprinting and so just make sure that you're cognizant of that when
you're training when you're working out to make sure that you can get the greatest results from
your training and really not make it so you end up getting yourself slower right because if you just
make a change within the legs you could throw off the timing while that change could be correct it
might end up having a negative impact because you don't end up having the correct body timing to be
able to really you know utilize that change to the best of its ability so as always if you like the
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from a technique standpoint that is making you slower and i think this is another great example
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want to be able to you know watch this type of stuff or see this type of stuff in your sprinting
so then you know how to apply it into your top end speed your drive phase you know your start
phase whatever ends up being the case i always see guys that just don't have proper spreading
mechanics and guys that can work on being able to improve you know different parts of their speed to
be able to better understand you know what it is that's going to make them the the best version of
themselves and so you know to me it's really not that big of investment just because you're going
to be able to get massive amounts of coaching and massive amounts of understanding of how to run
faster and you know a lot of people i think are really caught up in having a program that makes
a lot of sense in terms of you know being able to build speed and you know while the programs can
help to a degree i don't think there's anything as good as being able to improve your technique
because once you can start to build your technique you'll be able to build a lot more on top of that
so as always guys thanks for watching i hope this helps a ton and we'll talk to you soon