hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be going over some keys
of the push off when sprinting or to start the video right now
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all right so we are just in a endless pursuit of being able to help people in improving their
speed we're going to go over some key things here and really this is going to go into a key mistake
that i see when people are towing off this particular athlete has it really really bad
and i think it's important to be able to recognize it i think it's important to be able to talk about
it and you know really i want to continue to give you guys relevant content to understand
how to be able to run faster and i think this back view is something we got to be able to look more
at uh we have a sprinter with really great top speed great mechanics here on the right guy that
we need to work on on the left and the important concepts to be able to are able to understand here
is the importance of the start right so when we're looking at the start and what we're doing
in the the fundamentals of the start it is a critical part of understanding how
that's going to end up impacting our top end speed and so we're seeing here
with this athlete is and then we'll go we'll fast forward a little bit here on the right we'll use
the right leg so we can see some consistency here so what we're seeing here and this is going to be
top speed and we'll get to the athlete on the left and his top speed as well what we see is
the the transition into the toe off right and and what we can see as he's toeing off is the
foot is really turning inside you'll be able to see a lot more of what i talk i'm talking about
in a second and then we see here with this athlete how he as he's showing off how he is going outside
we can see how that foot is really transitioning from facing inwards to going outwards
in comparison to more maybe middle would be you know like a neutral position to then an inward
position okay it's not necessarily outward even though i tell people that you want to kind of
have more of your weight shift to the outside part of the foot so you want to be able to land
and then as that foot lands we're able to control stabilize make maybe neutral be a good what good
way to put it or maybe on the outside part of the foot but what's important is that as we push off
we want to be getting back onto the inside part of the foot closest to the very tip of
that big toe as we are transitioning off the foot and then from there driving straight
forward and through okay and so what we don't want to have happen is we don't want to have
our weight landing and then transition to the inside right so he just didn't really shift his
ways all just kept all of his weight on the inside and then from there pushed outwards okay because
then it's going to make it so that foot ends up almost going off to the side when landing this one
would be a better example of landing more on the outside part of the foot shifting inwards and then
again see how he's pushing off here this is just not the effective way of being able to toe off
right this makes it so now that the foot ends up going more like a round or out to the side before
coming forward and through and and again it's just not effective right it's something that is really
going to have a negative impact on your overall mechanics long term so now we'll look at the same
mechanics when running at top speed and this is actually a little bit later on but we can see some
of the similar issues so if we look to see athlete on the right while there's some things that could
definitely improve here we can see that the leg is pulling back pretty stable at landing and then
pushing off from that position in comparison to here on the right where we're seeing landing
immediately going into a large amount of pronation at the landing and then when pushing off the again
the foot is kind of going to the outside and we see people that when their foot is coming back
it almost looks like their foot is coming like a round right it just doesn't look right in terms of
what they're doing with their backside mechanics and this is what's happening right is that they're
when they're toeing off they're toeing off with their foot going outward rather than inward and
this is really common and really a dangerous pattern because it puts a lot more pressure on
that inside part of the knee so people that have this and the reason i'm doing this because this is
a football athlete that is really putting himself a lot more at risk for acl injuries ankle injuries
groin injuries by doing these particular mechanics putting you a lot more at risk for injury
okay so not only is he not performing as well but he's also putting himself a lot more at risk
for injury and i know there's a lot of people especially within like soccer that i've seen
have similar running patterns as this and i think it's really something that needs to be able to be
addressed it needs to be able to be changed and i think by by seeing what it is that he's doing and
being able to really slow it down gives you the opportunity to then potentially correct
it uh when you actually see you know the running done uh in whatever sports again track and field
soccer football baseball the mechanics end up being the same it's just how do you apply
those same mechanics is going to be a little bit different from sport to sport depending on what it
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mechanics we have one guy that went from a seven eight to a seven point two well sub 7.2 in the 60
just a within like a three to four weeks uh time span and we're just getting started he
still has a lot of things that need to be improved particularly within his start but
these same mechanics that we're going over here and making these these corrections and
these adjustments are what got him to be able to eventually make the improvements that he did and
like i said there's still a lot of things to be able to improve on there's really nobody that's
looking at mechanics the way that i am and so if you are not getting this type of coaching
then you're really not going to make the same level of improvement i think there's a lot
of people that are working really really hard and not getting the results that they deserve
because they're not working on the right things what we're doing here at the performance side is
we're working smarter not harder and that's going to be the big thing that will help us
in transitioning into a higher level of achievement i think over a longer period
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