hey what's up everyone morey croson here and we have a brand new video for today it's going to
be on how to use your arms during that initial movement during the start i commonly see this as
an error when somebody's first starting off there's like that initial time period where
you want to be very specific in really maximizing the force output within your arms and just making
so you have a clear understanding of exactly what that looks like that they will really help you out
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okay so on the left here we have a 40 start this is obviously going to be different because it's
a three-point stance in comparison to a four-point stance when you get out of a block start so i will
actually start with the block start first this is going to be christian coleman he has one of
the best starts to me out of you know anybody in the you know track and field especially right now
and so what we really want to be able to do and this is from a couple years ago i want to say
uh is just be able to to really identify what are some of the key things from more of that upper
body arm perspective that you want to be able to do so you can see where his arms are going
and and really driving back with one arm so that right leg is the back leg left leg is the front
leg obviously and we can see that right arm really drives back right so see how he pushes that right
hand and really gets that nice wrist flick and as he flicks that wrist he also drives that elbow
all the way up and then with the left arm really drives that left arm and and hand to make it so
the hand gets up above the head right and i think that's an important point to get to is like right
here we're in that triple extension i know we're not talking as much about the legs we're in the
triple accenture with the arms or sorry with the leg and then we're also getting that full range
back with that back arm all the way up and through with that front arm and that really sets you up to
be able to fully hip extend and get full range of motion through really your entire body and it's
really about being able to get to that position i know right now we're going super slow motion but
we want to be able to get to that motion really fast right notice where christian coleman's at
in comparison to you know the guy that he's kind of racing against is his training partner here
so notice that from the the trigger boom you know he's a little bit faster with his reactions but
more importantly look at how fast he gets to that end range with his arms right so as soon
as that that gun triggers or the the you know horn triggers you want to be able to be very very quick
with your arms because that really sets you up to be able to get your legs moving at the same
direction so he's already you know foot down in the in the ground his his arms are starting to you
know swing forward and the guy next to him still hasn't got that his feet on the ground and is just
about to swing his arm so you know christian coleman almost gets two arm swings before you
know the guy on the right is able to get through his first arm swing right so uh really a great
comparison video to see what you want to be able to do as you accelerate at the blocks now we'll
look at christian coleman here on the left really it's going to be a similar motion the difference
is just that you know instead of starting from that four point stance we're here we're going
to be starting from the three-point stance so the initial movement and really i see this a
lot more with the people that are running out of a three-point stance or that are running 40s
is that their initial movement is with that that arm not to drive that that down arm the front arm
back as much right so this front arm the the first movement needs to be driving that arm back the
best that you can right so you're here you have your your thumb down you have your index finger
down right you have a lot of weight kind of on that front arm to be able to stabilize and then
from there you use that to be able to really pull back with that front arm and then you also want to
be able to initiate initialize that back arm to really fire that forward and through as well so
you want to get that hand up to the forehead you know it seems to be a good place to be able to
go hand to forehead forearm to forehead whatever one kind of works out for you but you really want
to get that hand all the way up and you want to make sure that you drive that back arm all the way
through and again that needs to be fast because as soon as that your legs start to cycle through
you know a lot of times now that that foot contact time has a big influence on how you're cycling
your your legs and so or how you're cycling your arms so being able to get that foot down quickly
will be a product of how fast are you moving your arms okay and getting that front foot down
or that first step down is going to be a very very critical point and being able to make sure that
you're able to accelerate through and and get a really a quick start which you know if you mess up
the start it makes it very very difficult when it comes to these short-term races the 40 the 60-100
to be able to you know um adapt from that or to be able to catch up from that so you know making sure
that you're very comfortable with what you're doing out of the start and you know practicing
this and and feeling what it should feel like is i think something that i i highly highly recommend
you know i know me personally i work on my starts at least three four times a week just to make sure
that i'm grooving in the actual technique and i and i have a clear understanding of exactly
what i'm trying to do because even when i first start you know if it's been you know two or three
days since i've started the first couple of starts are kind of um a little bit they're not as clean
right they just don't feel i i have to go through you know five or six of them before i really start
to feel myself get back into my rhythm of having a good clean start so for you guys it's the same
type of thing especially if you're trying to get that 40 time down you've got to be very very clean
with your start in order to then transition into a very great top-end speed all right so as always
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