hey what's up everyone Morey Croson here from the performance lab at California and we're gonna do
another breakdown here today on Phillip Lindsey I'm super excited about this breakdown for a ton
of different reasons and one of the primary reasons because of the story behind Phillip
Lindsey I mean how could you not be rooting for this guy ran a 439 is one of the the best
all-purpose running backs in Colorado history then goes and is undrafted 21 running back for
drafted in this last year's draft he was not one of them so at least he's the 22nd best running
back within even this class has now gone to become the second tied for second in rookie running backs
four touchdowns fourth overall in the entire NFL of all all the running backs in the NFL
fourth overall in yards second among all rookie running backs again this is after he was selected
behind 21 are not even selected undrafted after 21 other guys were drafted ahead of him in this class
lastly number one in the entire NFL for yards per attempt I mean Phillip Lindsey keep on doing what
you're doing I love it I can't wait to do this breakdown just because I think that there's also
a huge thing that we can see within the overall running format and I apologize ahead of time guys
I'm gonna watch let you guys watch it full speed here first because I know we have a lot of people
that that would like to see how he looks going full speed I'll go ahead and do it one more time
there and the reason I apologize is because this is going to be there's gonna be a lot of rewinding
and a lot of slow motion stuff here just because there's a very important concept that I want to be
able to show to everyone here so getting into his top speed you know there's I always want to give
you guys more content new content new value and so what we're seeing here with Phil burnsy and I
think this is an excellent angle to really really connect with this and then also the fact that
he doesn't have his you know shirt on helps in understanding it as well and and what we want to
understand here is that there's these lines within our body with with the muscles within them that go
from the shoulder there on the front across to the hip and then even with the hip go really on
the on the outside part of the leg and then come all the way through okay and there's different
muscles that also will go from the leg and the hip all the way through and there's it's they're
different Anatomy lines and Anatomy trains is the book that talks about this and really that ends up
going all the way through up to the neck and so these are areas of just facial lines of muscles
that are connected that help in in creating force so why that's important is when we get to top
speed one of the things that that I've even you know realized and talked about and realized that
now that maybe this is not 100 percent you know an area that you really want to mess with and and
that's like the asymmetry is within the movement so let's look at Phillip Lindsey here we'll go
this is the right side first so what's great about him it within that left we watch his left leg he
does a great job during that landing phase landing with that toe basically straight facing straight
ahead and also the rest of his body pretty well aligned with that as well and so then as
he pushes off he's able to create a lot of just pure extension within that back leg and as he's
creating a lot of extension there that gives him a little bit more room within his hips to create
more rotation within his upper body right so he's really being able to reach back well with that
right arm really being being able to again get a lot of rotation to the right side and that also
clears up to get a little bit more hip flexion here with the opposite side now what's going to
be the inherent opposite effect of that is and we'll see here now we're gonna go and as he's
getting a drive back with that right leg we could see because he's got a little bit more movement
with his pelvis and hip over to the right because of more rotation over to the right now he's as
he's pulling back he's going to go into a little bit more external rotation within this leg so
you could see how when his left leg hit boom how everything is pretty straight their knees facing
straight ahead hips facing straight ahead legs facing straight ahead now on this one puts facing
more off to the side he's facing more off to the side his facing off to the side even the body in
general is facing more off to the side which makes it so now he has a little bit more limited ability
to get as much rotation in that upper body they're also limited in getting as much hip flexion within
that left leg but he's also able to generate a lot of internal rotational force look at how he
goes from external to a very positive very strong internal rotation so point being is he's getting a
little bit more rotation within the lower body and a little bit more just straight flexion
extension within the upper body upper torso so see he doesn't get as much of that elbow back not able
to get as much rotation within his spine and this means again he's not able to get as much overall
flexion and extension within this like really just flexion within this hip not as much moving over
to the side with the pelvis and then we go and transfer back to the other side well now he's in
a more aligned position there with the hip again more straight here and if we watch we're going to
be able to see more rotation within the spine here and a higher elbow there so why is this important
this means that asymmetries as an athlete is actually crucial we don't need to be too
symmetrical we actually need to be asymmetrical if we see with with Phillip Lindsey here what he
is doing is he's creating he's able to get a lot more extension within that left leg is able to
get a lot more rotation within his pelvis to the right side and and rotation within his spine to
his right side and that helps in his performance and being able to get you know again that that
really powerful extension within that left leg and then want to go to the right side while he might
not get as much just pure extension but he's also getting what he's getting is a internal rotation
within that right pelvis within that right hip which really helps him in generating force and
really allows him to almost compensate for that big external rotation to the left side working
a lot of that left oblique now he uses that that load of that oblique we could see here boom would
create a lot of power a lot of internal rotation a lot of movement within the pelvis as he's going
through and and going back to the left side not as much movement see how there's a less amount of a
lesser degree of rotation lesser degree of oblique activation but a larger degree of blue activation
a larger degree of left hamstring activation and so you know there's gonna obviously be things
that will play into different considerations based off of that information right so we can therefore
predict certain things within like overuse of like a hamstring overuse of like this groin
over you so maybe this oblique maybe this part of the of the QL lower back as well so you can
go into certain type of predictions within this but most importantly it is a formula for success a
formula for how you can breed more speed and more athleticism as a overall athlete when you see guys
that are asymmetrical it's not about training them to be become to always become more symmetrical
it's about allowing their asymmetries to actually work for them rather than against them and I think
that is a crucial crucial thing to be able to really understand I hope you guys love this
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