what's up everyone Morey Croson here from the performance lab of California and we're gonna
do another breakdown here today on excuse me if I messed this up Christophe Lemaitre look I tried
to fight figure out Christophe Lemaitre I want to say that's the right way I'm not French I'm
not French I'm sorry I'm not I'm not a speech guy I'm a movement guy so for anybody that is
offended by I pronounce it I'm sorry but big thing is let's get to the movement alright so
the cool thing about Christophe is he's a little bit taller um and I love his stride his stride I
mean he gets such a great knee drive it's it's something that we could definitely take some
information from so first I also wanted to get into the start you can see the he's pretty high
up right I mean compared to everybody else his head is higher than basically everybody's is you
get that first that or that first excuse me that first step down pretty pretty quick and in kind
of that initiation there which is you know always always important and then from there you know the
transition it's a it's a good first step good second step it seems like this third this third
step is really a good one we really was able to reach out get a little bit more more stride
length there and then continue to transition I mean I wouldn't say that his his initial start
is one of his strong suits one of the reason is is because you know once he he starts out tall
but then as he's going notice how like how the guy next to him he starts off almost lower than
him at the very beginning but then as they go he so see how right here how he's a little bit
taller the Christophe a little bit taller than then here's a guy in green but then as they go
gangrene's getting taller getting taller and taller and now they're about the same height
so now Christophe is almost forcing himself to be bent over um you know like this guy this guy's in
a much better position in terms of a spotless spine position which is you know really where
your optimal power productions gonna come from is having the spine in a good position and in
this part of the race you know he's winning he's already passing this white line and Christophe
hasn't even got to the white line yet so you could tell from that perspective why Christophe can get
a little bit more improvement in terms of his overall spirit now we're gonna get into or sorry
to start now as he gets going what's interesting about Christophe here is his arm swings so when
he's going down when he's swinging to his left you can notice how straight that arm gets and
how fast it gets straight right so is it coming down it's almost like he immediately extends that
elbow and is going back but he's also keeping this shoulder pretty well closed off so it's not like
he's allowing himself to you know get a lot of effect in terms of body or spine movement it's
just that that arm that initial kind of hard lat movement there is really a big part of his ability
to create force just because it's it's something that's different right if he wasn't using that to
create as much force then it would have a lot more look and feel as the right one does where is it he
kind of keeps it all bent but either side he does go into that elbow extension it looks like he does
try to use that lat to help him really drive that arm back which actually helps you in and in the
knee forward so he's using that left arm here to drive the left knee forward okay I'm gonna
say one more time left arm drive back to get the left knee more forward okay and now that's gonna
help him and creating an acceleration and like I said the beginning I mean his leg drive is really
what's crucial in how he's able to to maximize his performance cuz he gets just such a great turn
over from from coming back here you know his foot is is back behind him there I would so the longer
you are the taller you are a lot of times you have a tendency to get that foot to be stuck behind you
and he does a great job still gritty momentum off the ground but he draws that knee right up
and through and gets extension which is a big big strength of his in terms of maximizing his overall
cycle is his speed cycle and that's why once he gets going now he has a lot of smoothness in his
actual I'm sprinting notice now he's getting that great knee extension pulling back landing
with that foot right underneath his his ear when he lands on that right leg notice how - he rotated
a lot towards us here and what he's doing now is he's allowing himself to really be able to
swing that left arm back boom big swing and he gets a lot of momentum into that left left leg
and that left hip flexor is really a big driver that left I mean left hip flexor left core left
oblique left lat all that's a very important in his overall speed production you can see how much
he gains - whenever he takes that left that said with that left foot it's really his big his big
if he puts a lot of emphasis into that and one of his strengths and so I'm definitely interesting to
see it when he slow it all down also does a good job of kind of leaning out there at the end great
run now looking at it from this side here or the front now we could get into some of the stuff we
were seeing with that left arm notice what he does there right see how he's swinging that left arm
and how that's different than than the right arm and the reason I say again why you know that he
uses that a lot is because why would he be doing that if he has a similar you know kind of movement
pattern is like you know the guy that he's racing next to him see how he's the guy next to him has
fairly symmetrical arm arm swinging right but but a Chris off here he's gonna go and swing that left
arm back off to the side and you could tell that he's using that for the left hip flexor he really
needs to be able to open up that left hip flexor maybe he has some range of motion issues there I
mean kind of looks like as he's driving that knee up it kind of comes out to the side so it might
help him in overcoming that that range of motion deficiency that he has in his hip or it might just
be a power development thing it's hard to actually understand it without feeling the body understand
the body but you could definitely tell that that's an important part of what helps him I get to the
top because especially when he gets into that that top-end speed he's really maximizing really and
he's really gaming on people when he takes that step with that left foot which he has to be using
the left lat in order to get that that left knee to drive forward so yeah again very interesting to
see another thing that he's doing too is he's more of a runner that's gonna get more lateral movement
right so see notice how his shoulders are rocking back and forth this is usually a tough thing to be
to do because it takes a lot of stabilization in your lateral core to engage that but notice how
he's able to still stay tall still stay long in that lateral core a lot of times what I see is
when people they start with swinging sign or swing side to side like this they end up losing some of
their ability to maintain good posture within the spine and that ends up slowing you down because as
you're going through if you fall off to the side too much as you're about to land here then that
affects your deceleration process on this right leg if he fell off to the side too much and really
had a big round in this year now that would affect his ability to then push back off that
leg but notice for him he doesn't end up bending too much so he's able to push off that leg pretty
quickly pretty effectively which again helps him maximize his you know overall turnover and helps
him maximize the amount of force production at the same time so yeah overall I mean he's
anybody that's running close to ten flat in the hundred they're doing a lot of things right you
could see that that Christoph is definitely doing some things that that are that are right but then
you know there's some things that are a little bit different right the side-to-side swing like
the left arm straight I wouldn't just recommend anybody to just go and just have one arm that you
start strength straightening out early because you know that that wouldn't be something that
would necessarily work for you and your Anatomy you ought to be able to work in with what works
for your anatomy and and have a good connection to what feels right in your body in order to be
able to maximize your performance so yeah I think it's definitely gonna be an interesting
video something that people will be able to take information from and put into their own overall
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