hey what's up everyone morey croson here and we have a great video for you today
it's going to be a comparison video between usain bolt and
christian coleman when they both ran a 9.76 and where to start the video right now
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all right so a big thing that i am going to be you know breaking down i know christian coleman has a
bit of a tainted reputation because of the whole thing with the utilizing performance enhancing
drugs but still the focus is going to be on how he ran the 976 what he did on the track in order to
achieve that 976 at five foot nine in comparison to usain bolt at six foot five and the big thing
that stands out to me you know when we go through here is you know this is usain bolt on the left
or sorry on the right we got one two three four five six seven eight nine ten steps here
um and at that tenth step he was at and when it lands he's like at two five ish in
terms of the time right at the bottom you know somewhere between about two five and two seven
right and he's he's probably in it looks like about fifth place okay and we compare that to
christian coleman who at the same time and you can see usain bolt's right here
one two three four five six seven eight nine ten right so christian coleman is right there
uh he's in first place he got a great start and he's at about you know 2.1 seconds here right so
within that first 10 steps we have you know usain bolt and really not getting a great start really
not optimizing a lot of his great sprinting mechanics that we saw when he ran like a 9-5
in terms of his ability to really accelerate well and so the difference ends up being you know this
is what makes usain bolt the great one of the greatest is that he does such a great job from
that you know 10 step mark in being able to then transition into his top end speed and
really being patient through his drive phase right because right here all these guys are
going through and getting into their top end speed phase where their heads are coming up
and they're really bringing their hips all the way through and right here is really where
gusset bolt really starts to get into his top end speed phase in terms of his his posture and his
body position he's probably not getting to his top speed until about 3.8 seconds here where then we
again uh compare christian coleman where he's at you know really top-end speed right around
this area a lot sooner you know closer to probably to eight in terms of the amount of time right and
that ends up making a big difference right so usain bolt is very patient through his start
phase very patient through his drive phase where christian coleman is a lot slower through this
in terms of or a lot faster through this in terms of how he goes from being at that start
to immediately getting into his top end speed and then he's just really trying to hold his top speed
for as long as he can as he's getting to a top-end speed mechanic so the big thing that stands out
in terms of some of the mechanic things that christian coleman is doing is you can see he's
really falling hard on that right side so as he's going and pushing off that left he really dips
down deep into his right leg and and i think has a little bit of a harder time kind of stabilizing
within that right ankle and then we go and see when he pushes off and goes to the other side
he's a lot more upright a lot more stable and able to really absorb into that left hip a lot
more effectively and so that ends up being one of the things that stands out in terms of a mechanic
issue potentially for him is really not having a good stabilization within that right hip right
ankle it's hard to be able to see for sure which one it is but that could have been one of the
things that he wanted to do and you know utilizing the performance enhancers is like help him be able
to recover from any type of additional soreness that was happening within that side um or maybe
even into his lower back because what happens is when you start having these asymmetries like this
where you're really turning and really opening it puts you a little bit more susceptible to having
injuries right so you want to be and that ends up being the main thing that you want to work on as a
sprinter is like it's natural to have asymmetries it's natural to have differences between your
right and your left side but how are you going to utilize that to be able to improve your
performance while also being able to maintain your health and that ends up being the big question
because there's some degree of rotation that's going to happen within one hip in comparison to
another hit that has to happen because we're working within the transverse plane right and
being able to utilize the transverse plane or the rotational plane makes it so we can generate power
so you have to be able to do that and but we're doing a sagittal plane movement right we're just
trying to go as fast as we can in a straight line and so by putting too much transverse movement or
working too much outside that sagittal plane puts us at risk for groin injuries hamstring injuries
uh you know shin splints because your shin has to absorb those rotational forces where
you know the the muscles there want to just be moving forward and back and so being able to
really understand where that's going to help us be performance enhancing and where it's going
to end up making so we're at a little bit more risk for injury ends up being a main thing that
we want to be able to understand and that's what usain bolt does so well is you know he
has scoliosis he has some asymmetries going on but he utilized core strength to utilize his you know
lateral flexion of the spine which more and more people are starting to utilize in their sprinting
which i think is a great way to be able to help in achieving top speed is really getting more of
a lateral spine movement and not and working more within that frontal plane right the side there's
the three planes there's a sagittal plane going forward and back there's the frontal plane going
side to side and then there's the transverse plane where we're working rotational movements here
and being able to utilize more the frontal plane creates a lot more stability a lot more control
and is a little bit more helpful i think in being able to achieve top end speed now once you get to
that top end speed you got to be working in the transverse plane in the sagittal plane
primarily in terms of how you're generating force so and and he is able to do that but he has such
long legs such long levers that he doesn't have to to get into too much transverse plane movement
he could work a lot more within that sagittal plane so uh and and at the end of the day here
within the 100 meter he ended up taking 41 steps right and this is the same when he ran the 958
and for christian coleman he took 47 steps and so that ends up being a big difference right because
when you're five nine and you're running and you have to take you know more steps obviously
in order to get there but now you also have to be able to maintain that top end speed a lot longer
so that's what ends up happening with christian coleman is he gets to that top speed so quickly
and then once he gets here he has a hard time being able to maintain it we see you know some
of these guys start catching him as he gets to his top end speed because he ends up having this
this issue where he gets that foot so far back behind him that now the body is going forward he
has so much forward lean going on because of that acceleration that he's just trying to almost just
stay upright right don't fall over don't fall over don't fall over he doesn't have that right
arm kind of a right side ducking off to the side as much once it gets to his top speed that's
mostly at the acceleration but you know that ends up being something that i'm sure he's working on
is how can he maintain that top end speed more effectively because he gets out so well he has
such a great acceleration phase you know probably the best su bing chan are the two best guys with
that um but now being able to really sustain that top end speed or something that both those
guys are working on in order to improve or you got you know usain bolt here six foot five he
you know when he gets a great start then he always has the ability to run you know something sub 10
sub nine eight you know just runs great times if he could just even get an okay adequate start when
he gets a great start then he's you know able to run world record time so that is the difference
between being six five and utilizing the different planes in order to really be able to maximize your
overall performance and so you know understanding how many steps you should be taking how to be able
to utilize your body to help you get through the three different phases of the start the drive the
top end speed just makes such a great difference in you know being able to make it so now you can
actually take control of your results because when you go and you don't have a great understanding of
the start phase the drive phase the top end speed phase how you're utilizing your body and where
you want to be able to maximize each one of those phases it really makes it a lot more difficult to
be able to actually see results i'm also about setting up like hey i want to see this type of
result within this type of time period how can i make that happen but if we're just going in
there just saying oh yeah you need to squat more you need a deadlift more you need to sprint more
you need to work on your starts well why are you working on your starts what are you working on
within your starts what part of your starts you know what's your shin angle like what's your spine
angle like where's your head position where's your arms and that wall makes it so now you can
make substantial results over a period of time and now you can take control of your career control of
your ability to actually make improvements instead of it being a little bit more up for chance so
that's what i like to do within the speed program is really connect on how we can make improvements
in a you know certain time period and you know that's why i always push it the speed breakdowns
i think are great just because it gives you a good understanding of what specifically within
your mechanics you could do when we talk about the speed program now it's a commitment to being able
to help you over a sustained period of time so as always guys thanks for watching the video if
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