alright so I wanted to make a video today to go over really some mechanic issues in running here
really some not super technical things but also some things that are very very important I think
that we would all like to know when when running and I think we had a good case here where we can
really go over all those issues here just in one situation so first we could see during the
get off phase and this is a young high school kid and a very common thing within the other
high school kids is that a lot of people don't know how to properly breathe correctly in the
diaphragm stabilization and any type of running is critical so this this athlete was diagnosed
with exercise induced asthma and really what that is is the when when working out for a long period
of time getting that shortness of breath and it's really because the athlete didn't it was
never really taught how to breathe and - by doing some breathing drills we were really able to add
a lot of stability to his body and his core and that's just again by teaching the diaphragm to
work and then when you see him take off at the beginning this is before we did the diaphragm
stuff you could see how he's holding his breath a ton during that takeoff phase and he's really
holding it the entire time and as he starts to get into the stride here and I got a little bit
in front of them but I'd end up working out where now you could see his head is kind of in front of
the whole body and it's really evident at the beginning right where his head's pretty far
in front but then when he gets back lined up you can see started getting his head or side his legs
under his head but even in this position he still his head is pretty far in front and what that does
that causes a little bit more activation of the front kind of superficial neck flexors here and
that will make it so then you end up having more pressure on the little back you have a harder time
getting into hip extension which is really getting that glute max all the way through and something
that is critical because of how much power you can generate while using and using your glute max
while running and so a lot of people that don't use their you know use too much hamstrings and
not enough glutes while running can end up with obviously hamstring overuse you have low back
pain and even going into neck pain and that's what we have here where that that neck is kind
of is reach out in front and causing tightness in that area so and that would be point number
two would be making sure that the deck is or the head is in a good position the neck is in a good
position then the third thing and we get a good one here would be ensuring you get in a triple
extension and triple extension would be getting full extension here with the foot full extension
here with the knee and then full extension with the glued here there's always kind of a different
different ways of interpreting the body and one of them is like okay what comes first the the chicken
or the egg type of a thing so was his inability to get his neck in a good position and breathe
correctly made it so he can't get into a good triple extension here or was he unable to get
in a good triple extension and so to compensate he started to use more of his diaphragm and neck
and things of that area to try to produce the same type of power we don't really know for
sure but the big thing is that we want to be able to correct both and obviously that's we're going
for one for ensuring good breathing while running ensuring good head and neck position while running
and also ensuring that you're getting the most out of each step by getting into full triple extension
let me know if you have any questions about any of this stuff in thanks for watching as always bite