hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be comparing abby steiner
and elaine thompson we're starting the video right now
this is the newest edition of the performance reach your individual goals you don't want to
just talk about straight lines we also want to talk about your delivery quick
we break down your video let's make you into the quarterback i know you can become
all right we have abby steiner here on the left who this weekend ran 1092 that
really showed that she has a ton of potential overall within the college ranks and you know
got some people that have been asking to do a breakdown on you know abby steiner and so i
just thought i'd compare her to elaine thompson you know if we're gonna go
and uh you know talk about how great abby signer is how elite really is she so uh the
best way to be able to do that is to take a look at elaine thompson and see what are some of the
things that we can maybe do or learn that you know elaine thompson does really good or even
uh what ivy stunner does really well and be able to kind of compare the two both of them are five
six right so that was one of the big reasons why i decided to do uh elaine thompson is because
you know one elaine thompson's obviously the best in the world and two because you know they are the
exact same height so we look at elaine thompson here this is from the prefontaine classic a few
months ago we got 491 when she's coming off the ground here and she's touching back down
we're gonna put most of focus on the you know right leg coming back back down at 5 23. so
you know she's got what do we got .32 here in terms of her turnover rate right pretty pretty
good turnover time uh overall right and we'll look at abby steiner here when she's at our top
a little bit late here i'm going to say 0.35 on that 0.35 transitions and yeah it lands about 0.61
or 0.66 uh can maybe even be a little bit after that because she ended up landing a little bit
you know doesn't look like she's actually hitting the ground there but she's at about that that
similar spot right so 0.31 so they're pretty similar in terms of how fast they're able to
move their legs which is great now we want to be able to get a better understanding of you know
what are they doing or you know how much distance are they picking up per step right there's a few
things that go into play here when it comes to top speed and we can even take a look at
contact time just to be able to see 0.23 when she lands you know she's definitely off by 0.32 0.03
yeah see the the times here the video quality ends up being really important to be able to see
specifically where we're at yeah so that one's not bad so we got four four about four four to four
five somewhere in there and you know she's off you know somewhere in that five two
range so she's she's at about 0.0808.09 we'll say 0.09 let's see if we can get a good time here for
abby steiner that looks good 0.26 yeah and she's off you know about the same time 0.09 so they're
pretty similar in terms of their you know for contact time right maybe abby signer might be a
little bit quicker with her turnover time how much time her she's spending off the ground uh and then
the big thing we're not gonna be able to calculate all this but elaine thompson does pick up 49.5
uh or take 49.5 steps altogether where abby steiner takes 52 you know closer to 52
right it's a little bit more than 52 steps so that ends up being the big difference
when it comes to the difference of uh you know elaine thompson being able to run you know 10-5
and abby steiner running you know ten nine so uh you know there still needs to be some
improvements that abby center can make you know you can tell elaine thompson really has some
long legs and does a great job of being able to reach you know one of the things that we've been
going over a lot here with the the athletes that really come into the lab is just being able to
you know properly sync up that timing within that back side so when you're that backside's pushing
off the ground you know you're utilizing that to be able to really reach out with that opposite leg
to be able to generate that that pullback right so you can see that happens where you you push
off the ground and you start to get that upward action of the foot and when you do that you want
to utilize that that action that upwards action through the body to then be able to pull the foot
back underneath to make it so you're able to land in a good position in comparison to the hip right
so it ends up being really important where are we landing with our foot in comparison to the hip to
make it so that we could transition off the ground really well right you can see how well she's able
to land and also how effective she is and being able to generate horizontal force into the ground
right i mean it's the same with with elaine thompson she comes off the ground here and she
uses that to then be able to reach and then land back underneath and what she does really well is
just be able to maintain such a straight position with her legs so now she's able to generate a lot
more distance per step and a little bit more you know overall vertical force at the end of the day
the thing that we talk about is that there wants to be a big difference between the horizontal
force and the vertical force in order to or the big difference is the horizontal force when it
comes to you know top sprinters in comparison to vertical force right it's not a ton about how high
are you getting on when you're coming off the ground while that is important or how much of a
of a vertical rebound we're getting but really how much are we able to really to optimize the
horizontal force into the ground to pull that leg back underneath us that ends up being a
really critical part of being able to you know run fast and achieve at a really high level so
if you have any questions off of that let me know you know the big thing that really stands out
about watching women sprinting is just how quickly they're able to decelerate and then accelerate
off of the ground right they're so great with their foot contact time which is just you know
absolutely a phenomenal thing that really is is able to uh you know give you a perspective of
where you can improve as a sprinter right when if you are a you know women track athlete or
you know or a coach of women track or anything like that the big thing that i would say that you
could probably improve within the girls is you know where they're landing within their um body
right like where on their body in comparison to the hip that they're landing right and how fast
are they able to uh you know control or what is their contact time right so how well are they able
to control that landing and then be able to you know propel themselves back off and just getting a
great understanding of how that is a concept that you can utilize when it comes to really optimizing
your training efforts right because it really matters what is it is it that we're focusing on
when it comes to improving top speed right and so if we're focusing on whatever you know hamstring
strength or or you know plyometrics or just things that are going to be a lot more difficult to be
able to improve it's just going to take a lot more time right we want to be able to make it so we can
get the fastest response the quick in the quickest amount of time in order to do that we really want
to be able to isolate the foot contact time okay and and there's a wide variety of different ways
that that ends up being important but you know if you could really take that information and
utilize it and implement it within you know the training of the athletes you'll setting yourself
up to be able to get the best responses so uh yeah if you have any questions about that let me
know we have some great programs going on right now in the description down below in terms of
you know the speed program and getting breakdowns with that and you know also the same thing
with just getting a focus program towards your development as a sprinter right so we have an
individual breakdown package and then we also have a program package that are both you know at
at all time low prices and really something that i'm not going to be able to hold for very much
more time just because of all the different things i'm doing right now but we're going to
hold it at least for the month of april i can't guarantee anything after that so again thanks for
watching here click the link in order to find out more about that and i'll talk to you soon