hey what's up everyone morey croson here and we have a brand new video for you today
it's going to be on some key biomechanics that you need in order to run faster it's something that
i've realized by doing some coaching recently and i thought i'd be able to get it to all of you out
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that leave that down below and we'll hop in the video right now okay so here it's going to be you
know really me and usain bolt here not to say that we're on any type of same level but just
to kind of show that this concept is a repeated thing that usain bolt does and something that
i really like to concentrate as well um and it really makes a big impact i think on being able
to generate more forcing the ground so at the end of the day you know and the more that we've been
able to um understand and study and even look to replicate force production into the ground
what is an important part to be able to generate that force into the ground is going to be the
amount of height that you get during the extension right so when samsung will look at you saying
first just because he's you know the best printer ever so you can see when he's off the ground just
how much overall you know height he is he's already six five but he is able to also get
very far off the ground in his um sprinting right he's not jumping he's trying to run as fast as he
can so what this does is this gives him the ability to generate a lot of downward force
as he's coming down into the ground now it's not just straight downward
it's down and back and the reason the down and back is important is because it creates a shorter
contact time shorter amount of time that the foot is on the ground so when you just end up
the people that just go and push straight down they end up just spending a lot more time on the
ground that then is necessary while the people that are able to pull down and back are able to
not only generate force downwards into the ground create massive force but they also are able to do
it very very fast and very very efficiently by not having a very long ground contact time now the key
to be able to do that is going to be when you're pushing off right so being able to go through that
extension there and and really maximize pushing off now this is an important concept to be able to
understand is if we watch usain bolt here he's not actually getting into triple extension
as he's pushing off right notice how as he lands how fast you know you can see him just how fast
he generates force and that's what makes him the guy that he is but he never ended up fully getting
extension within that knee so that's not a necessary capability that is needed in order to
be the best in the world right to be able to beat olympic records now you know he did have some
hamstring issues and i think anybody that runs at this high speed will end up having some hamstring
issues and we'll have some you know biomechanical inefficiency or obviously not going to be perfect
overall but i think it's a very very critical thing to recognize is that you don't actually
need to get triple extension in that leg in order to be successful as a sprinter you can
keep a bit of a bend in that knee but when he's pushing off he has a great ability to one get a
lot of range of motion on that extension right and as he's pushing off get into immediate knee
flexion right and that allows him to be able to push his body upwards as he's sprinting okay
and what you want to be able to do is maximize hip extension right we'll go into watch me it was able
to see everything pretty pretty clearly there on him but yeah you want to be able to get that
heel facing straight up immediately after push off and toe off you want to be able to drive that
knee right in because that is really that that stretch shortening um concept where you can go
and you know obviously the muscle is stretching out i get a little into a little bit more triple
extension overall and you know something i might even try to reduce a little bit just so that i can
create a little bit better turnover within my legs but big point is that you want to be able to push
up and drive that knee right straight forward and get a lot of vertical force got to be high
when you're running so um you know high up in the air when you're running obviously um so
when and some important things that i see that will prevent this is if you're driving the leg
forward if the if your butt or your heel gets too high right behind your butt i would say that he's
almost at the limit there uh then that ends up making it so as the legs swings through you're
not able to generate as high of a position within the the knee and the body in general so don't get
that heel and that foot too high up next thing that i would say is as you're coming forward
make sure that you're able to maintain a strong upright position in your you know back and in your
your body you don't want to end up leaning too far forward as you're driving through
right because this will end up limiting how high you can get your your foot up
and as you're actually driving your foot down you need to consciously be aware
of that action right you want to be aware of understanding that the foot wants to drive down
and it wants to drive back in order to generate a lot of force off the ground and just being able
to conceptualize those key biomechanical traits i think will set you up to be able to run a lot
faster um in a very short amount of time so as always guys if you have any questions go ahead
and leave those in the comments down below would love to be able to get some breakdowns for you
guys and really help you and better understanding this concept i do think it's very very important
to recognize and see and be able to replicate by doing a one-time breakdown i think we'll be able
to get you a clear understanding of where there might be some differences in what your spring
mechanics are in comparison to somebody like a usain bolt or a tyson gay or justin gatlin or or
you know matthew bowling any of these guys are at the highest level of sprinting mechanics and
sprinting times and if you can connect to it and see it understand it a lot of times it's just one
or two simple tweaks and you can improve your speed by two to three miles an hour we get that
all the time here the performance side people come in and we set a baseline and within one
day they're running two to three miles an hour faster just because i have a certain process for
what we're trying to do in not only the breakdowns but also just improving your mechanics in general
all right if you have any questions about that you can go down in the description down below
we'll be happy to get you set up and as always thanks for watching we'll talk to you soon