hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be going over the two most
important parts of improving your turnover speed and we're going to hop in the video right now
all right so the first thing when it comes to improving your turnover speed is going to be
how your foot ends up pushing off of the ground so there's a couple common mistakes that i'll see
when people are pushing off that really have a negative impact the most important one that
you want to be you want to avoid is when pushing off allowing that foot to like really travel back
you can see with like you're saying pull here and really tyson gay as well how their feet both come
straight up and begin the process of coming around that's what's important so you don't want to be
pushing back right you want to be pushing vertical you want to pushing up off the foot in order to
really improve the turnover and another important thing here is making sure and you can better see
this from the back unfortunately we don't have a view from the back here but a lot of people i see
when they push off the ground they usually kind of bring their their knee outside and their foot kind
of comes across and there ends up being this this thing where their feet end up going kind of across
their body as they're going as they're running so they're burning like this and not running
like that right and that ends up being another big part of improving your turnover increasing
your ability to turn over is going to be you know it falls under the same category because
it's still how you're pushing off the ground but it ends up having more of the more to do
with instead of pushing laterally right and and making it so your body and hips shift side to
side you want to just be able to again push up vertically so the best you can be able to get up
onto your big toes and really maximize the the verticality in the movement pattern the better
you're going to be able to improve your turnover speed and before we get into the second part of
improving the turnover i just want to say go ahead and smash that like button right now
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turnover speed and it has to do with the actual position and height of the foot
and i commonly see this here and there's a couple things that will happen uh where either one the
foot will get so high that the spine ends up going forward or you know the the foot ends up you know
just getting way too high so then the the foot has to really drop down before transferring through
right so it just has to do with the actual height of the foot in order to improve your turnover you
got to be able to drive that foot right forward and through you know you say bolt gets a lot of
force up off the ground so his foot gets kind of right in the middle of his butt i see a lot
of people that get their foot up you know to the top of the glute into the lower back and again
if your foot is getting so far up that it makes it so you end up creating a ton of extension within
the back or you have to adjust your your spine height then it's going to negatively impact your
ability to run fast so it's really important to be able to control where that foot's going at
first when it's pushing off the ground right and as it's cycling through kind of coming underneath
you really what's important is being able to feel like your feet are staying pretty well underneath
you don't want to be feeling like your feet are really getting back and you're pushing back that's
the common mistake that i see in common flaw that i see in sprinters that really slows them down
and another big thing about just by watching this in slow motion over and over and over again here
i really realized that something that that stood out to me as we see tyson gate and usain bolt you
know first we'll see tyson gay here so see how he when he pulls down how he has that movement into
his head and in his body right as he's initially in that pull dine uh usain bolt does the same
thing where you could see how when he begins that pull down really allowing that spine to be able
to come forward and we can see how that actually correlates with when that foot ends up driving
back up and through and i just think that's a really important thing to recognize because we
want to again make sure that our spine is able to stay upright as we're running and as we're pulling
down right here it's common for that spine to end up coming forward but what will happen is
that if that foot gets too high now it's going to make it so our spine stays stuck in this position
right so you can see how he ends up being here and then as that foot lands and transfers
through he ends up being back into a very vertical position within the spine so you don't want to be
allowing that foot that that pull down of the foot to dictate where your spine ends up making you
fall forward because that will have a big impact on your ability to really maximize that turnover
as well so you know those are the main two things they all have to do with the foot position
primarily in the backside mechanics when your foot is off the ground and back behind you and those
are the two biggest mistakes that i'll see in in what's impacting the turnover now you know people
will end up impacting their ability to really stride out really well mostly in their front side
mechanics but you know there's a lot of people that have a very fast turnover that don't have a
great frontside mechanic so that at the end of the day you know is something that doesn't slow down
your turnover time by not having front side mechanics but it does slow down your actual
top end speed and your ability to get to your top end speed so i didn't want to go too much
into that just because of how the differentiation there but you know big thing that has to actually
do with the ability to move your legs quickly is how your foot is pushing off the ground and then
where your foot goes as it's traveling up towards the hip to making sure that it stays underneath
you rather than getting too high so as always guys thanks for watching the video check out some
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