hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be going over the proper
foot strike when sprinting and really putting a big emphasis on where on the foot you want to be
striking the ground in order to really maximize force production when you're hitting the ground
and then also putting a emphasis on where in comparison to your body your foot wants to be
hitting the ground in order to really maximize contact time when you're sprinting so putting a
big focus on two different areas in this video here as always if you like the information
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and we'll go ahead and hop in the video all right so we're giving you really a comparison this is me
on both sides me on the left side and me on the right side and you know what we're looking at is
the different parts of the the first where you want to be actually hitting the ground so big
thing that you want to be doing is you want to be hitting the the ground really a little bit behind
the ball of your foot you don't want to end up being too much back like on your heel like on on
the left side i'm trying to run more on the heel here um but you can just see i'm just landing more
flat footed and really the thought process here is when you see me landing i don't know if you
could see that time stamp but the time stamps 5668 but you know as you go through and when i toe off
it's at around 56 91 right so that ends up being you know more than you know about 0.23 seconds of
time on the ground and then you compare that to on the right and i hit the ground at 12 52
i actually think the one on the right it might be slow motion but either way and i'm off at night
1262. so this is 0.1 in terms of my contact time in comparison to 0.23 and you want to be closer
to point one in terms of your contact time once you get anything above like point one five but
that's still way too long of a full contact time if you're really trying to get elite level of
sprinting form and mechanics and so you know just making sure that you're able to optimize that is
really really important the other mistake that i see with you know when you're landing is making it
so the foot lands too much on what's called like the forefoot so you end up landing on like the toe
you almost like point your toe down as you're you're landing um and this makes it so now you
end up losing the stability within the foot so if you're too much on your toes when you're landing
then you have like a big heel drop after your your foot contacts the ground which then makes it so
again you you end up not being able to generate as much force and you end up lengthening the contact
time a little bit more really being able to pull your foot back down underneath i do a little bit
better job on my right side where i get my foot out in front and then see how i pull that leg
back underneath that makes it so now you're able to land a little bit more you know underneath
the ball of your foot not exactly on the ball of foot a little bit back is going to be the perfect
really position to be able to land and everyone's going to be a little bit different i'm going to
add a little thing here to show where around in the area you want to be landing just so you have a
concept there i will say this you don't want to be landing too much on the outside part of your foot
right you don't want to be landing out here because then you end up going and shifting your
weight too much side to side which then will make it so your legs start to cross over a little bit
which is just an inefficient part of running you want to be able to really maximize the efficiency
in order to run as fast you can in order to do that you really got to be able to you know push
off and bring your legs straight through and not have them going you know too much side to side
the next big thing that i want to talk about is that when your foot's landing it's a little bit
different here on the curve obviously because this is a treadmill that like curves upwards as you're
running but what you want to be doing is you want to be landing with your foot the best underneath
your hip as you possibly can right and so as your foot's coming through you want you don't want to
end up landing with your foot too far out in front of you i see that a lot especially with those heel
strikers when you're landing and your your foot is more flat or you know landing with the heel
you're going to land with your foot way further out in front of you you're going to have your
head a lot further out in front of you which is just going to really again impact the foot
contact time and then also make it so you're not able to generate not much force into the ground
so you want to be able to try to land with your foot right underneath you the best that you can
you can see for me and i'm a little bit more out in front of your hip they say that that might not
even be possible for you to land with your foot right underneath your hip but it's something that
to always work towards because it'll blink it so your leg is more straight when you're landing as
you get to this point where your foot's right underneath your hip you want to have that knee
as straight as you can you know not um straight as in facing forward necessarily more straight as in
making it so it's like that way upright right extended would be the the more i guess scientific
term um would be extending the knee as your foot's touching the ground in order to make it so you
could generate more force and push off and get a little bit more of vertical force if your knees
too bent as you're crossing through here then you end up going a little bit too horizontal
pushing yourself too forward rather than getting yourself upwards and really creating that vertical
force which you want in order to maximize your sprinting all right so yeah make sure that you're
landing as close to your your foot underneath your hip as you can and then make sure that
you're not landing too much on your forefoot too much on your heel but more so on the ball of your
of your foot when you're sprinting and then more on the inside you know to middle part of
the foot not getting too much on the outside part of the foot in order to really maximize
the efficiency within the sprint and make it so you're able to really get to those top speeds
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