hey what's up everyone morey croson here from the performance lab of California and we have
another new breakdown for you today it's gonna be on Christian McCaffrey and really getting his top
and speed and better understanding stop and speed here we've had we've broken down his 40-yard dash
before but here it's gonna be some in-game footage of you know when he's running and when it was his
40-yard dash obviously it was when he was just a rookie this is gonna be a few years into his
actual career and so we'll be able to get some some different takeaways and and it's always
different to be actually seeing somebody running in the actual sport as well so you know big thing
that you could notice here with McCaffrey is you know it's touching the ground here at about six
thirty three on the left side and then he doesn't push off the ground until the you know a little
bit after that probably about six four five so he spends about 0.12 time on the ground water
talking about the left leg but then on the right leg he does a really good job of cycling that leg
back through so he lands in six five six and then he pushes off at six six six right and so
what that means is that he's at a point one on that one so right his right leg is definitely
more of his speed Leahy cycles that leg through a lot faster and you can see how good of a job he
doesn't really being able to push off there get full extension through the back through the hip
which is so important when it comes to being able to maximize your speed all those talks
printers they do a great job being able to fully extend through the hip fully extend through the
knee and fully extend through the ankle in order to really get a lot of force and then from there
get that vertical push to make it something that good cycle the lake really quickly so there's
a great job there left leg here pushing off the ground cycling the leg through and then with the
right leg you could see he's driving the knee up and then getting this foot out in front of
him the best that he can and that pulls that foot out underneath him right he doesn't have as much
flexibility on the right side to be able to really get all the way out you can see on there's a left
one where he gets that foot way out in front of them and then pulls back he doesn't land and as
good of a position on his left side but he gets a lot more of the extension out in front of them so
that's why I say it's probably much more more time on the foot with the foot on the ground
and he also really maximizes his overall you know turnover to make it so he's going to be
you know utilizing a lot more power within that left leg right because he's getting that Lake
Way out in front and pulling down so he's getting a lot of torque from being able to push that down
and really extend off with that left foot and then the right foot just cycles through really
quick doesn't get it as much of an extension out in front then cycles really quick underneath them
click on the ground and then pushes back off and gets that left foot going again so it seems like
everybody has a bit of a left side more power leg right side more of a speed leg and so being able
to see that I think is super you know effective and makes us so you get a better understanding of
you know how you can improve your own individual run notice that he's getting pretty vertical he's
not picking up a ton of overall space on each one of his steps he could do that by getting
more extension in both legs out in front of him he keeps those feet kind of low to the ground
once he gets a the knee up to his hip you know so if he was able to get that foot a little bit
higher than cycle 3 he'd be able to pick up more distance on each one of his steps and you can see
here as he starts getting fatigued he gets a little bit more of an extension in in his back
so you know now in this position is getting his head a little bit further back behind him now
and he's not really able to drive and get as much of an extension out in front of him right so he's
kind of lost that that nice cycle with his leg out in front which really is a lower core type
of thing and so that's what ends up happening is that if you can't keep that nice cycle of with
your leg out in front of you now he's starting to turn but that that's gonna really impact or
that's usually coming from your your lower core get I'm not that good stronger core not to say
that he's you know weak in the lower court just different in comparison to you know some of those
elite sprinters the Tyson gays and the Noah Lyles and you know those guys that are really able to
maintain their top-end speed for a long period of time they have very very strong lower cause
very good control of that lower spine area which means they're able to generate a large amount
of force for an extended period of time you know Christian McCaffrey playing running back on this
assuming he's a lot more focused on quick quick turning and moving side to side really quick
but he's not gonna be focusing as much on being able to sprint for something like a hundred meter
straight just because you know he does it really does something like this it's not everyday where
you get to break open a huge run like this so you know he's much more focused on moving side to side
being quick and balance and agility which gives you a different overall build then again somebody
that is gonna be sprinting for long periods of time like Noah Lyles who has you know just a
great sense of being able to maintain top end speed for you know a long duration and does a
great job of not leaning back and does a good job of consistently driving the legs through on each
one of the steps so you know definitely about compare and contrast there but you know just
seeing some of the the big parts are helping him break free and being able to see exactly what you
can improve on as a sprinter because I see this a lot with running backs word you know they're
not just football players in general they're not able to get their foot out in front of them and
get that that nice extension and Christian Academy McCaffrey does that and then he also land on the
balls of this seat which is super important you got to be able to cycle that like through laying
on the balls of your feet in order to have success alright I have some links below to try out our 40
day speed program trial been working a lot on speed stuff so we have good contact stuff we
have turnover we have arm position we have start we have basically everything that you need in
order to get fast within those first seven days you should see some improvement looking forward
to working with more people and getting helping more people get fast and and improved their
overall technique and form alright if you have any questions let me know and we'll talk soon