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Hey, what's up everyone, Morey Croson in here from de Performance Lab of California and
we have a breakdown for you today.
And really the big topic of the breakdown is just going to be how postures impacting
performance and what you can do, from a posture perspective to really make some big improvements
in your overall running mechanics.
And this is, the site on the right is more of a before type of a situation.
And then after is here on the left, you can see really, there's a lot of different things
that we worked on here took about 3045 minutes all together, but one of the big things that
we could see is the difference within the posture.
So when we want to go, we start breaking it down, the big thing that ends up impacting
your ability to run fast is, you know, where's the head in relationship to the hip.
So if your head is too far out in front of your hips, now that's going to put a certain
amount of Bend within the spine in comparison to when your head is pretty much right above
the head slightly in front of the hips.
Now it's going to put a significantly different position of the spine.
And what I've found in my overall running and also with working with athletes is the
more speed that you want to put on to your your body, the more your spine wants to go
like this.
So you have to be able to in a way, fight your your body to be able to maintain a more
upright position, especially as your overall speed begins to increase more and more and
what ends up happening to and correlation to what in my opinion started.
The issue here on the right is putting too much of a focus on the drive, right?
There's a lot of times that we when I hear coaches that want to try to help athletes
run faster, it's always about driving the knees.
And one of the big mistakes that ends up happening from that is now the concentration gets away
from the push off, right how well you're able to actually push off the back leg or look
at the position to push off here in comparison to the push off here where there's so much
bend here in the knee.
Now, if the focus is on the knee drive, now, of course, there's not going to be as nice
of a push, obviously, on the left side, because the the focus is on getting the knee forward
as fast as you can, right.
But the thing is, is that when we talk about speed in the development of speed, it's how
well you're able to push up the back leg that allows you to get to the knee drive.
Okay, so there's a common say that ends up happening there.
And one of the big things that happens when you start to put too much of a focus on the
drive as well is now the spine angle overall changes when you can keep the focus being
a little bit more on your ability to push off.
Now it's more natural to keep your head slightly in front of your hips, instead of when you're
concentrating a little bit more on the knee drive, now you're going to have a tendency
to have your head a little bit more out front a little bit more from your hips.
So I'm really putting a big understanding of the importance of the posture, because
I think the posture really ends up holding us back, especially for longer distance runners,
as well as the sprinters is that, you know, I feel myself once I get into mile, you know,
maybe one one and a half, I'm not really a long distance person.
But you know, once we get closer and closer to the end of a mile, I feel my body begin
to want to collapse a little bit and have some difficulty in maintaining a very upright
spine position.
Because of that, it ends up impacting how much strike distance I'm able to get on each
one of my steps, and also how well how effectively I'm pushing that back leg, which are both
going to impact my overall performance.
So really getting an understanding of how how posture, and that feeling in your spine
to kind of allow yourself to dip down a little bit is
really really embedded in your ability to run as best you possibly can.
And in your overall performance.
So you know just want to give us some information from that deposit perspective.
I know I'm talking a lot about the lake cycle a lot about you know how that should be better
your push off the fee things like that.
But you know, late recently and working with this with this athlete and really gave me
a better understanding from a policy perspective where there could be significant improvements
in and athletes running capabilities and you know, what, what ends up being a common mistake
with a lot of athletes that that we've you know been doing breakdowns on and stuff like
this, but this is a great example of somebody that is able to get a lot of big improvements
fairly quickly by just fixing the posture and how they're able to push off that back
leg and what the result ends up being so they had to get something like this you know, we
obviously do the breakdowns where you know, it's very effective but if you also if you
live in it live in the area and would like to get some mechanic improvement whether you're
a marathon runner or do the sprint sprinting type of running you know doing something like
this would be you know, very very valuable for you coming in and actually you know, getting
a technique analysis like this just because we're able to make corrections a little bit
quicker and you know, get go over different drills, different exercise, whatever ends
up helping you which will obviously be very beneficial.
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below and you should be able to find out you know more about you know whether you want
to come to the lab or you know some of our online options as well.
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