hey everyone this is Morey again from the performance lab doing a breakdown here
probably pretty accustomed to me doing more of the the burr breakdown but here we're gonna go
into running I think we're going to be adding a lot more running technique and running mechanics
into our PLC membership and so I just want to give you some more information about getting
good running technique and what that looks like here we have a 40-yard dash from George farmer um
and George farmer was one of the better players that ever came out of the LA area unfortunately
just had a large amount of injuries within his lower body while he was playing and that's what
kind of hindered his ended up running a 4-3 five in this video that we're watching here and we're
always trying to figure out how we can get better speed and what we're gonna look at is really
what's with a symmetries do and how those make it so you end up having a lot of problems within you
know increasing your energy risk so it's really an asymmetry type of a post here so what we're seeing
as these he has a good acceleration I mean he has a good amount of shifting going on in the hips and
what that does by shifting it around the hips is that gives the opportunity to produce power that
lateral shift allows him to really get a large amount of I mean the valve use and things like
that aren't necessarily they're not bad or great in this situation but as we see him get into
top-end speed we'll see more of what to me is what his issue into being and that's just the large
amount of external rotation that he has on his leg during that initial foot strike here at that
right way you could see how that toe is basically turning straight out words you know knees facing
outwards all these things are happening as he you know lands so now his force production has
to basically be and you could see how he even turns his foot out more his force production
comes from basically his foot facing straight to the right so he's all using all these inside
muscles in order do to generate force going and that's gonna make it so ease chance for growing
problems transfer inside hamstring problems and even chance for knee problems gonna are gonna go
out significantly left-sided turns out slightly not too bad he has a lot more stabilization on
that left side so you can see when he lands that hips able to really absorb that really really well
the issue is is that his left arm he's a little bit more peg dominant on his right are sorry on
his left arm so his left arm kind of comes across his right knee kind of comes across or the oblique
system the anterior oblique system which is the muscles that run from the left shoulder to the
right hip is a lot tighter on him than on the opposite side so what that does is that makes
it so he's gonna have a lot higher chance of you know having these asymmetries right so there's one
and to me it starts with the core there's one side of that oblique system that works better than the
other side and so even though the legs are working really well here because of how much more strength
he has within that left shoulder and right hip in the on the front now when he goes in lands
now we're gonna be more on the posterior side he just doesn't have as much strength here so even as
he's landing he's still using the anterior oblique system here even though it should have happened
is that that post year oblique which is the back part of the left shoulder to the left or sorry to
the right glute should have started to activate now this makes it so he has to land and utilize
that external rotation within the leg putting a lot more pressure within the lower limb with the
right leg to do all the stabilization here what we'll is instead of using that core okay and so
that's really what ends up happening here and then you could see how he gets that arm goes so
far out here just loading that PEC a ton to be able to come back across and you know give that
anterior oblique system going again so that just that asymmetry between left shoulder the right hip
and kind of how much more the front the front part of that the system is working compared to
the back is the heart of the issue that's causing the difference of that huge landing you can see
he really does a great job of getting vertical he has a lot of you know very explosive person
and he's alive he's a lot there's a lot of things that are great about what he's doing but when he
lands and he that high amount of external rotation and then as he begins that transition phase right
there he goes into so much of a you know kind of a lateral movement so he has to create so much
force with muscles that are not supposed to be moving them in the sagittal plane are supposed
to actually moving them in the frontal plane or side-to-side and said the muscles that are moving
in front straight ahead he now is going to have a tendency to use those muscles all the time right
so if the muscles that are supposed to be going straight ahead aren't working and instead you're
moving that using the muscles that are taking you side-to-side when you're moving straight
ahead and then you're also going to be moving those using those muscles when you're moving
side to side as well those muscles are going to become overused and that's what's going to cause
the injuries like ACL ankle problems you know both groins pulled hamstring stings like that
where on the left side he's much more efficient and you know transitioning between that anterior
oblique system here so he's using a lot of the anterior oblique system right now but then he
does a good job of transitioning off of it so now that right like lat to left glute are both working
to stabilize that left leg which is making that that side just a lot more efficient and effective
some again the big thing that we're looking at is asymmetry so you now that you could see the
difference between one side and the other I think it'll help you in being able to say okay you know
I want to try to be as symmetrical as possible we'll never be able to be a hundred percent
symmetrical but to understand okay you know my foot is not supposed to be turning all the way
out I'm supposed to have an equal utilization between my anti oblique system and my posterior
oblique system you know kind of understanding how your legs are supposed to be landing and which
planes your muscles are being used in so kind of the the front part of your leg here your quads
the anterior tibialis front part of the ankle as well as the hamstring glutes those are all muscles
they're supposed to be using are supposed to be pushing you straight forward but by landing out
to the side he's using much more adductors and kind of the peroneal is in the lower body and
that's what's increasing his injury risk on that that right side so thanks for watching I hope you
enjoy the video I know we're getting very very technical but on the same side I mean you want
to have somebody that has a good ability to be very technical this might not be easy for you
to understand on somebody else's body but try to apply to your own body and try to have an
understanding of okay what muscles are supposed to do what what planes that are supposed to be
moving in because this is gonna be so important for you to be able to perform at a very high
level as well as to make sure you're going to reduce injuries as always thanks for watching
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