hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be going over how you could
use your head in order to make you run faster and we're going to have in the video right now
all right so the whole premise of this video actually happened by mistake i was running on the
treadmill and i actually almost kind of slipped off and i went off to the side a little bit
and when i did that i ended up having to kind of bob in my head a little bit more in order
to kind of regain my traction and i actually was able to run faster because i created this
little head bob as i was going it was something that i just kind of naturally responded to but
it made me think i wonder if the top sprinters actually do that so i went ahead and looked at
usain bolt his best race ever the fastest human to ever run and just want to be able to see
what exactly happens with their head in order to make it so they run faster before we do if
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leave those down below or hop right back in the video okay so we got you know really all the best
sprinters in or some of the best sprinters in the world right here and we can see the start you know
and you could definitely see with tyson gay how much he uses his head even from the start in in
that bobbing but you can see that really all of them end up having that kind of lateral shift in
their head as they get going you know when they get more into the drive phase it seems like that
ends up really being a big benefactor especially for usain bolt i think he uses a little bit more
in the drive phase than he does through the start phase but he still uses it all of them really
use it in the start phase as well but notice here how there's a lateral shift in the head
right after toe off right so the foot comes off the ground then there's immediate lateral shift
and that lateral shift actually happens before that front foot hits the ground right so you
want to be able to kind of get that that head to move a little bit to the side make it so you
line up with the foot then drive that foot right back and then be able to nicely alternate that to
the other side so as you're pushing off with that back leg utilize some of that power that that you
were able to generate from shifting your body weight over your foot over that leg and pulling
back to then be able to push off and shift your weight back so there ends up being a lot
of obviously forward movement here this is mostly a linear movement when it comes to sprinting and
we want to be able to optimize a lot of the linear capabilities within like the arms and the legs but
there is going to be some lateral movement it's just inevitable there's always lateral movement
whenever i watch anybody run and the hips and the knees and the feet everything and so
we can see though with his head and i think it really shows once i get into top speed how this
could really end up benefiting you just because you really utilize those neck muscles a lot and
those neck muscles are critical in being able to maintain stability within the spine and are also
really important in being able to keep a good amount of range of motion and looseness within
the lower back and the hamstring so when people get a lot of tightness in their neck you can
actually see that with a lack of range of motion in the lower back or tightness in the lower back
could actually stand from the neck area so big thing i would say when watching this is make sure
that you're not too stiff in your head as you're sprinting because that could actually be slowing
you down in your ability to really get to your top speed and maximizing your top speed so you know
understanding how to utilize the head through the drive face through the top end speed phase i think
would be really really beneficial for myself as well as a lot of us that are watching that might
not really even realize that that is an actual thing for me i didn't even realize that this
could actually help me in getting faster so now that i know and i probably do it a little bit kind
of naturally but being able to figure this out go through some breakdowns be able to you know work
on it i think will really help me in being able to achieve a whole other level of speed capabilities
and it's all about these critical details when it comes to improving your speed which is why i
highly recommend you guys checking out our speed breakdown because once i can see what it is that
you can really work on then it really makes a big difference in being able to actually translate
that into your top speed so even something like this you know it might end up being something
that you can utilize and try to implement but unless you get some good coaching to be able to
identify what are some of the things that are going wrong or what are some of the areas you
can improve you might not see the same type of improvement as somebody that you know really
does have you know those good eyes and the only reason that i could just do it is because i watch
so many hours of this and so i feel like i know exactly what it is that i need to do and i also
do a lot of mma and boxing training so i know a little bit more about how to bob and weave in the
head you know i'm not great at it it's actually something that i've been working on but it's not
something i'm terrible at so you want to be able to kind of use the the neck and the head and be
kind of familiar with you know the the actual muscles in there and when you don't know how to
use those really correctly then that will not translate well into your sprinting so highly
recommend the speed breakdown or the speed program the speed program is a little bit longer overall a
lot more benefits you get out of a longer program you know more of a commitment everything but
either way i think you're going to see a lot of benefit out of both and we also have some other
things down in the description down below that will help you out in improving your speed journey
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