Hey, what's up everyone, Morey Croson here
and we're going over the quickest way to improve your speed and we're
going to start the video right now.
All right, so the quickest way to improve
your speed is actually to improve your start.
I do think that that ends up being a big thing when it comes to,
you know, somebody going from
like a 4.8 to a 4.6 or 4.5 or even like a 5.1 to a 4.8.
You can make a lot of big improvements in your overall times, you know,
even in like the hundred just by improving your start.
So I'm going to go over key concepts today
that will help you improve your start immediately,
which is going to be your arm swing. Right.
So I recently got off the phone with a client, he's like, "hey, look,
I you know, my kid's fast, but it just takes him a long time
to get to his top speed.
So what's going on?" I've seen the kid run before.
And the big thing is, is that he really has a great stride
and a great ability to achieve a lot of speed
when he gets to his top end speed and actually gets to that position.
But the thing is, his arms and his legs are always working at the same distance.
They're always long. Right.
So he has a long arm swing, a long arm stride. Right.
And that is great when you get your top speed.
But it's not great when it comes to your start, when you start.
You need to be quick, right?
It's all about getting that fast turnover, getting the legs going.
And then you go through that drive phase.
You talk a lot about the drive phase
where you slowly transition into getting to your top speed.
So you don't want to just start off with a long arm swing
and having a long turnover, long stride.
You want to be quick at the beginning,
really quick with the feet, quick with the arms,
and then transition into your top end speed.
I'm going to show you a couple examples here.
All right. So there's a couple main things
that I want you to understand when you're watching this video.
The first thing is that my arms are not moving slower when I'm starting.
They're just moving quicker in terms of the range of motion. Right.
So when you get to the faster sprinting when I'm running at my top speed,
I'm getting more range through my arms, but when I'm first starting.
I'm a little bit shorter, especially when I drive my arm through.
And being able to translate that will help you to be able
to turn over the legs quicker, therefore, making it more explosive.
The other thing is that when I first starting, I'm really putting a lot more
of an emphasis on landing on my toes or on the front part of my foot
where when I'm going and running it my top speed.
I'm more landing behind the ball of my foot.
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And the next thing is going to be posture.
So when I'm going through the start,
you can see I'm much more forward with my lean.
I have my chest facing down and my head facing down.
And then when you compare that to when I'm running my top speed,
I'm much more upright chest is upright
and that makes it so I can get much more range of motion
as I'm pulling the arms back and then also able to drive my arms
straight up and through.
Where when I'm first starting,
I have a little bit more with my arms going out in front.
where, you know, when I get to
my top speed, it's a little bit more of a vertical action within the arms.
Another key concept is low heel recovery.
So when I'm going through when I first starting,
I really want my heels to stay low to the ground
after I push off and really emphasizing being quick on the ground.
When first starting, it's hard
to spend the least amount of time on the ground as possible.
So really put a concentration on being quick as you're first starting off.
And a big way to be able to help you do that is having low heel recovery.
So as soon as your foot comes off
the ground, you want to immediately bring it back forward.
Where when you're running top speed.
It's really a lot more about how much force you're creating into the ground.
And therefore, when you push into the ground,
your foot's going to come upwards
more toward your butt in comparison to when you're starting.
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