hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we'll be talking about if your foot should be
straight ahead when you're sprinting i watched a video the other day that talked about how
your foot should be straight ahead when you're sprinting and i thought i've seen a lot of
different variations of that and so i wanted to give you guys a little bit more information about
exactly if your foot should be facing straight ahead or off to the side or where is a good
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this is going to be from the world championships last year or in 2019 and we have a few different
guys here obviously that are top sprinters uh we have gatlin we got coleman zimbani uh de grasse
and hughes and you know what i just wanted to see is you know in terms of the most up-to-date
uh information out there obviously gatlin and coleman both beat uh usain bolt the last time they
they uh race each other um and and just to see you know this was just from a couple years ago very
good quality video that's why i like to do more of the up-to-date stuff and just to see how all
of them land so well first let's start off with corman just because he is obviously the guy that
won this race and you can see when he's landing with that left leg he ends up being faced off to
the side a good amount there and really this is a performance enhancement type of a thing here so
um you know i don't know if the video that i was watching was talking about more on the injury
prevention side and if that's really the the main key behind why keeping the the foot straight ahead
but even if that's the case i still don't believe that keeping the foot straight ahead is 100 the
greatest way to actually have the the alignment of the foot and and making sure that you're going
to stay injury-free so um you know just going to want to look to see how his his feet are landing
obviously you can see he's a little bit more turned off to the side and the reason i say that
is just because of the position of the hel of the pelvis um every not everybody's going to have the
same position of the pelvis so for you could even tell when christian coleman walks he has a little
bit more of a turnout in his body naturally and seems like his his pelvis is kind of turned out
as well and so for him it's a little bit more natural to land with his feet turned out and
obviously he has a great overall performance been doing it well while doing it and you know hasn't
suffered very many injuries at least not that i know of that have been at least detrimental to his
overall career so um that's going to be coleman and where he's landing now we'll look at gatlin
again you can see he's landed and he's pretty turned out here when he's landing what's
interesting about his laney as you can see it's very much on the inside part of the foot there
something that i i typically do not teach i definitely teach to land more kind of right
in the middle of the foot something more like how coleman's landing and a lot of these other
guys are landing more on the middle part there but you can see gatlin is definitely landing
on the inside has a lot of strength in there and also has to go probably through a good amount of
a recovery after running a good amount in order to make it so his feet are able to stay very
very healthy i'm sure that takes a bit of a toll especially on on his uh right foot there because
you can see that's really more what he does on the right foot lands like that left foot he doesn't
seem to be landing in that that same position a little bit more on the outside part of the foot
and that's something that i talked about in my first book that you want to be laying a little
bit more on the outside part of the foot after doing more and more research into it
you don't have to land on the inside part of your foot obviously you can land in a wide variety
of different places i actually recommend to be a little bit more underneath that ball of your foot
and right in the middle and not too much on the the outside but go ahead and go to the next one so
he's a little bit unique in how he lands right first one was really far on the inside second
one was really far on the outside part of his feet for justin gatlin now we'll go somebody
so that laying position i'd say it is definitely a great landing position there
on the right side you know he might be a little bit forward but overall
not in a bad position at all i think that's a very very healthy landing position
a little bit more turned out to the side i would also say this would be like the recommended
position in my opinion would be slightly turned off to the side you know not as much turned off
like is not a good is there not a bad spot another thing that i commonly see is people talking about
how if we're going to draw a line from there and maybe i should just use a straight line
i'm going to try to make this as straight as i can talking about how the head should be
a straight with that right so again doesn't have to be not to say that
it can't be but just looking at all these guys when they're landing
we'll go with gatlin too
that one's a little bit hold on
he's a little bit more right in that position i think that one's kind of
trying the best i can here to be as straight as i possibly can then let's go with the grass
it's pretty close there with his feet all right so again just another thing to be able
to give you more information on uh in terms of what you're i think a lot of you guys are uh
seeing out there right there's a lot of different people to have a lot of different opinions
that's where a lot of these top sprinters are at in terms of you know the position of their
their foot when they're landing i love where degrass is at i think he's biomechanically
very very sound he's not perfectly straight ahead right but he's he's five 10 degrees
off which i think is really more of like that optimal position with your body when you're
landing and i think he's landing in a great position with his feet as well so i really
really recommend being able to watch the grass and how he's able to sprint i really recommend
you know landing more in that position i think his his again biomechanics are very very clean
and then we've got hughes here you can see hughes is landing a lot more on the outside part of
the foot right very turned out to the side he's probably at like a 20 degree angle off to the side
there again all these guys are at a very very high level here he's kind of turned out there but then
almost seems like to be landing a little bit more on on right in the middle but he's also kind of
you know pronating into that position so there's a lot of information that you could take from
you know watching these guys and really studying how some of the best are doing it
i think the important thing to take away from here is that there's not one way to be able to
sprint in order to perform at the highest level as well as to prevent injury right because coleman
is able to sprint at a very high level and you know he's had a couple of injuries but all these
guys have definitely had some some degree of you know injury difficulty so it's not always based
off the biomechanics there's a lot of things that come into play when it comes to that and there's
a unique sprinting style that's going to be unique to you in order to set you up for success
and i think that's an important thing to be able to recognize so just because there's people online
that are talking about running with your feet straight or running with your your head over your
foot or all these different uh terminologies or ideologies for how to sprint in order to run fast
don't take it all for a hundred percent for what it's what it is right you want to be able to
be a student not a follower right i think that's a great quote so what a student is somebody that
learns from a wide variety of different people and is able to take all that information in
and then apply what they think makes the most sense to them while a follower just
listens to one person what they say they're following right so be able to decipher who
is really telling you the right information and where is that information coming from in
regards to uh the the end goal right or is somebody trying to teach you something or tell
you something just so then you will follow what they're saying and subscribe to their program
and do their workouts and do it or are they saying it just because they're generally trying to help
you in uh improving your performance or staying healthy so uh yeah i hope this helps guys if you
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