hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be
talking about over pushing and restarting the video right now
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all right so we have a athlete here on the right and we obviously have you know marcel jacobs and
you know really i mean this is the olympic 100 meter final and so you know a lot of the best
printers in the world here so um you know when we look and we talk about over pushing really
what that has to do with is that back leg right and how we end up uh generating force off the
back leg when we're going to top speed so we commonly see here is for athletes that that
uh have the issue with over pushing and a lot of times it ends up being you know there's a wide
range of i guess the cues that end up happening but it ends up just being an over emphasis on
that toe-off phase right so as we're getting to the toe-off here really focusing on being able to
push off the ground and generate a lot of force off the ground at this stage when we know that
most the the force ends up being generated when that foot hits the ground right so this is going
to be when the important moment is when that foot hits the ground and so you can tell like you know
we look at the two different athletes i know here we have a treadmill in comparison to being on a
track but you can still see you know as the leg is coming through here just being able to keep a good
amount of height especially as the leg gets more and more into hip flexion right so the further the
you know foot is able to get out in front while maintaining a good amount of hip flexion gives a
great indication of how fast the athlete is right because now that ends up going into horizontal
forces and you know i'm going to give make a video that goes more in depth into horizontal
force because i think that ends up being critical when it comes to being able to you know get to top
end speed and that's a big differentiator between the athletes that are able to run the fastest is
how much horizontal force are you creating and so we're seeing here is you know the the late push
off right or you know really focusing on on over pushing and so then when the leg starts to be able
to come through you know we get not a bad amount of uh hip flexion here so this is the case where
you know the athlete is not slow right and and this is going into um you know more in depth
into the the biomechanics right the specifics of what makes it so you can end up generating a
lot of speed and so when you see though as that lace getting more and more hip flexion and when
the knee is starting to extend right getting in this position so right here we got more of the
extension you know we have more knee flexion here we have more knee flexion here on the right and
then as that leg started to extend the foot just ends up going straight down so instead of getting
this action right and then being able to pull back right this would be more of a pulling action we're
getting a foot contact which then requires more of a push right so then we can go back into this one
here now we're going to get more of a push action okay and then when the leg cycles back through
we're not able to generate very much of a pull it just goes right down to the ground
and so once you end up hitting you know right down straight to the ground here now when the
foot comes back through we're going to end up having more of that over push right and so that
is just the concept behind over pushing and you know where that ends up making the biggest impact
is going to be you know being able to bring that leg back up and through that foot up and through
right having great front side mechanics so the the big thing that's happening when you
see somebody that's struggling with front side mechanics goes into you know over pushing goes
into some of those backstop mechanics so make sure that you're looking at that and you can even see
the trajectory of the foot right so you can see as the athlete's pushing off here foot is going
up and back before coming straight through right we want to be able to see you can see with marcel
jacobs he's pushing off then driving that leg straight through right you don't want to get stuck
with that foot going back behind as soon as that foot is off the ground you want to be able
to start bending that knee and start driving that leg through so the timing works out correctly and
and being able to get the foot through in a time period that makes it so now you can transition
into you know good front side mechanics and then pull down before the foot hits
the ground if your foot is hitting the ground straight vertically right straight up and down
then that ends up being a problem right we don't want to hit that half the ground hitting
or the foot hitting straight down in the ground we want to make sure that we're pulling that
foot down underneath us to make it so our foot's landing more right underneath the hip
right and opposed to landing with the foot way out in front of the hip all right and so you
know because now once that front and that ends up landing more out in front of the hip that's
what's going to be a big cause of the over pushing and a lot of this ends up going into some of the
you know acceleration mechanics what are some of the things you're doing in those beginning phases
to help you in acceleration and then once you get into acceleration now being able to get into
top end speed and really being able to maximize that and so you know if you don't have the right
acceleration mechanics then it's going to be a lot harder for you to be able to properly uh
transition into your top and speed mechanics and so i think being able to understand over pushing
should help give you a solution to be able to potentially fix that issue and you know
make it so that you could help your athletes in better understanding some front side mechanics
and what ends up being critical in accomplishing those front sight mechanics so as always if you
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