hey what's up everyone morey croson here from the performance lab in California and we have
another breakdown for you today on Mike Rogers Mike Rogers is the has the fourth fastest time
in at least in terms of the United States and the track and field around nine eight nine 100
meter at 33 years old which is absolutely insane when we go ahead and break him down and give you
guys a little bit more information on how you can become a little bit more overall better spinner
and I thought what was interesting here is and it goes into some things that we've talked about in
the past but also sheds light on some areas that I think we haven't gone as much into first I'm going
to go and let it go some of fast motions you can choose what he looks like as he's printing he is
right there so you can see as we're going all the way through watch the whole thing he's right here
free Pirelli I might Weston for just six kind of my client thing oops no just let it go well mess
with it go ahead check out what looks like so I thought was interesting you got offed a little
bit of a slow start job there so we'll get back to where I was at we're at about 16 so what I thought
was interesting is if you watch here the guy next to him he's out in front he had much better start
and we're going to see we mean they end up like being basically stride for stride and just want
to show Mike Roger is really passing yeah the guy next to him and how that ended up happening
so it goes and and when he lands and it looks like overall with what ends up being the big
differentiation is how he utilizes his left leg stride and because the right leg stride ends up
being about the same between both guys watch when they end up eventually syncing up here
pretty quickly so here they end up being pretty oh wait it's right after it's about under this
one so this is going to be the first kind of step they end up sinking up and he's still a little bit
behind Mike Rogers still a little bit behind so watch the transition and both of them look very
very similar good knee drive good extension good pull Mike Rogers touches the ground a little bit
before the guy in the seventh right lane ends up touching then we see the transition this is where
it first gets interesting or where you can start to see the difference is if we watch how they they
both go back here and how much they they both do a good job of opening up with their right shoulder
so it looks very very similar in terms of how they're going up there this a little bit higher
knee they drive here from one to the other but everything is pretty much timed out the same okay
then we go to the next the other way but on the up this side if we watch the arm drive look how Mike
Rogers ends up pulling that arm just a little bit further back and because he's able to pull that
left foot a little bit further back his foot ends up going in and that are a little bit further back
he ends up just getting a little bit longer of a stride right because right here they were actually
sorry right here they're you know you can see that he's a little bit behind and then this one he ends
up catching them baby by a little bit maybe like half a foot there and then going on this one he's
getting closer to like a full foot there in front of them with a little bit better Drive here maybe
about a foot in half but also notice again the symmetry and how they look see how they basically
have the same step same transition everything is the same they're when they're their feet hit the
ground but then we go back to the left side and notice again Mike Rogers opens up that shoulder
a little bit wider there which makes it so his timing is better as he's rotating and this is
what I think is really important is as he's he goes he transitions transitions transition as he
gets to the top with really driving that elbow back he gets a little bit more spine rotation
to the left side in comparison the guy next to him which as he's transitioning he just doesn't
get as much of a rotation over to his left side and then when you on the right they both get a
similar amount of rotation so yeah they both a similar amount of rotation but here undergoing
left Mike Rogers definitely has more rotation and I think it's really important because I have a
lot of guys that come here that are trying to get faster and one of the things that we talk
about is as you're pulling back and as you're getting your arm back you got to be able to get
maximum extension really be able to pull your that arm and what we're seeing is as you pull
your arm back you know there becomes a time where you you have so much strength and so much power
behind that that arm pull that you actually create some a little bit of rotation in that
T spine which then helps you in utilizing your obliques as you're transitioning through so as
you're pulling back you really got to get to that end range and really create a lot of motion to be
able to make it so your obliques end up turning in and you can create some activation within your
core I think that's a very very important concept that you guys got to be able to understand if you
want to get faster you got to be able to have so much pull at the top end of your your extension
with your arm that it's causing your body to get into a little bit of rotation which then better
utilizes well Bleek's is now what he could do is he has all these muscles built up here so
that helps him in driving that left knee up right because he turns here so it helps him
in loading all this and then driving that left knee up now another important thing that that I
was watching here is and I think this is another very very important concept is within the time
that you're on the ground as a sprinter the time that your foots on the ground so that time right
here with Mike Rogers boom within that time you want to be able to achieve the maximum range of
motion within your foot okay what that means is that when your foot sitting the ground if
you're too much in straight flexion extension almost like the guy next to him here then you
don't achieve as much overall capability for or force similar to when I watch throws what happens
when you throw is the guys that seem to have a little bit longer release but still you know get
the ball either hands quickly but that doesn't mean that their release isn't long they have a
little bit longer loading time that's people that would like pitchers talk about that as well how
when they load they just have a little bit longer load and so it's the same thing with sprinting if
you have a little bit longer load or more range of motion put in your load not spending more time in
the ground but actually having some movement went on the ground you're gonna be able to create more
force whether it's side whether it's rotation because you see guys with their feet turned out
and I think well Mike Roger is my graduate seems to have very flat feet but what that does that
makes it so when he lands on the outside part of the foot then he goes from having a lot of it I
know this is gonna be a intense concept but it's going from supination a lot of your weight on the
outside part of the foot to pronation very rapidly and then goes from pronation to plantar flexion
which is extending with the foot ok supination if you can look these up supination more weight
on the outside for the foot rapidly the pronation which is a lot of force on the inside part of the
foot to then plantar flexion which is extending that all makes it so he's loading different
muscles and able to create different amounts of power and force production which allows him to
be able to exceed ok so watch what he's landing he lands outside part of the foot rapidly transitions
to the inside part of the foot then extends and so all that time he's loading different muscle
groups which then it you're able to then get your feet off the ground quickly you're just
creating a lot more power utilizing a lot more strength I know this might be a concept that
might not be easy to 100% understand but it's so so important listen to it a few times ask me some
questions give us some comments let us know what you think we want to be able to provide more value
I'm always looking to try to get better I'll try to help you guys get better I think this is one
of those videos or if you truly listen to the information you could really gain a lot out of
it and really help yourself get a lot faster as an overall athlete whether you're a track runner
football player baseball player basketball player whatever it is you can benefit from
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