okay what's up everyone morey croson here from the performance lab of California doing another
speed breakdown here there's going to be a Andre to grasp the Sprinter out of Canada really one of
the the top sprinters in the world right now doing a lot of a lot of competition within you know all
the other top guys so I thought it'd be a good idea to do a little bit of a breakdown of them
kind of see what makes him good when listen one of the top end sprinters and you know I
think what there's two things that really stood out to me doing these these breakdowns and that
is one the flexibility and the range of motion these guys are able to take their legs through
I think is extraordinary and a big part of this because they have so much power so much strength
at the same time they have so much range of moats range of motion so much flexibility that is huge
the other thing is the unbelievable ability for them to be able to current create and generate
the force that they're able to do with such a small amount of grind ground contact time so we
could see as we go through the video here that the amount of time that they spend on the ground on
these Russian texted to just a gallon here too so we can look at him as well it's just extraordinary
they're just they're just barely tapping onto the ground and you know getting their their foot right
back up and that's what makes them able to create the large amount of force that they can is being
so you know plyometric or so agile and each one of their their steps so it's very very impressive
they're able to do that I think what the garage does really good here is that he has a very very
good ability to maintain kind of a looseness within his shoulder so I think he actually uses
a good amount of kind of upper trapped shoulder activation and in what he's doing so you could
see he kind of gets a little bit of a shrug go in there so he's very he's moving up in this area
right by the again the shoulders the chest stuff like that probably getting will give my activation
going very stable very controlled in the lower body also very controlled very stable in the
upper body and then obviously has a great ability to go full range of motion so the things that I
think you want to work on if you're a sprinter really trying to understand how to get to that
top-end speed is really being able to be flexible in your in your hips and being able to go through
an entire range of motion very effectively this is going to be is one to be crucial because you
can see what how they're running you can see out and the big rascal isn't looks over the side a
little bit here but looked at how he's able to get that heel all the way up to is but I mean that is
just phenomenal how much range of motion that he has within those quads and that's what makes him
so his next step here he goes into a really high degree of flexion so you can see knee gets all the
way up to his hip which is another very very hard thing to achieve and he goes and extend down he's
very vertical so he goes and extend down right away he gets that foot right back underneath
him taps it down on the ground and he's back and creating maximum force and he's generating
that other leg through so he just doesn't spend a lot of time on the ground working to generate
his force he's very much as tapping on the ground and he gets that heel right back up to his button
stays very very vertical okay another thing that we could see is that he's just not using very much
movement within his core you can see that there's very there's a lot of stabilization there and that
comes from doing anti rotation type exercise one of the things that we want to try to do is get to
the point where we could start building this a lot more effectively so it's not as much about
genetics are always going to be important kind of the natural abilities are the important but if we
can start getting a system of being able to you know figure out how to make certain certain people
become type in sprin or something that's that's really the end goal here and I think one of the
things that we're going to really focus on is foot contact time I think that's crucial another thing
is having that full range of motion to be able to get good amount of strength within the hamstring
cuz this is really all hamstring strength and correlation or combination with a large amount
of quad range of motion and quad mobility and then another big part of it is going to be overall core
strength so just not being able to resist anti rotation very very well okay and again I mean
what he also has a lot of shoulder range of motion so as he's going through he's using his shoulders
and that sure other to kind of get his weight to start going upwards he's kind of a light guy
so by just going you could see here really good see how he's raising up their shoulders and by
raising up his shoulders his whole body is able to to raise up and it's right when he's pushing
off the ground so there's a lot of coordination that goes into this as well where you need to be
able to do a very good job of timing that push off with driving that so right here timing that
push off on that left leg with driving that right leg up to make it so everything is very very sync
to synchronize and then going through landing with the weight underneath yeah and then going
back into that same sequence of driving that knee up tied tapping off of that back leg at the same
time and then what he kind of does he kind of has that that shrug where he's going to bring in the
shoulders up where you can see Gatlin doesn't do that as much he's very gallons a little bit more
just tech based and lower chest base law dresses a little bit kind of upper upper back base where
he's going to get a good amount of sure going on and really try to control his ability to get
vertical force is from from doing that but really both of them have a little bit at where they're
pushing off and they're getting a little bit of kind of upward help through their shoulders so
make it so their spines going upwards and probably helping in decompressing that's fine a little bit
so just some interesting information in there we want to continue to break down these guys
that are just the top-end sprinters and seeing what they do that's a little bit different I
think that that De grasse and that that really kind of vertical movement within his shoulders
is very helpful and then also you know really doing a good job of keeping a nice smoothness
within kind of this upper upper chest and the person to gallon he's much tighter up in here
the grass is very smooth very very loose here but then has very strong core strength while
while he's running so it really shows that that he's able to get into a rhythm and you can see
as he's running he's looking kind of side to side so it really makes a difference where he has that
natural ability to to hold that that top-end speed no matter where his his head and neck
looking just because of some of the fundamentals that he has in the lower body so very impressive
run here and we'll continue to break down speed we want to make it so you guys have got a great
understanding of what mechanics you need to be able to generate the most amount of speed as
well as what type of exercises to do in order to do or to generate the most amount of speed
you know that speed kills in all types of sports and obviously within tracking field it's essential
so getting the right mechanics is crucial in order for for you to really take your your game and your
your body to the next level so I'm check out our membership page we have a lot of good information
there about how to build up speed and then we also have a lot of other good breakdowns here
for speed and we also go into different exercises as well as going to pictures and quarterbacks um
some overhead stuff another important part of generating the right type of mechanics
so there's always thanks for watching and we will have another breakdown up on Saturday dr. Soong hi