what's up everyone Morey Croson here from the performance lab of California and I am very very
excited to do this breakdown explanation however we want to put it video here today just because
I think that this the the more that I've been running and the more I've been trying to train
myself the more I've realized how important this truly is in developing overall top-end speed and
making it so the people that follow this channel are really going to be able to succeed in their
individual sport and continue to improve so the big thought process here and we could see on the
on the left it's a you know more of a novice would be a good way to put it sprinting in comparison to
on the right we're really you're gonna put a big focus on on Noah Lyles I think right
now know allows is if not the top sprinter in at least America he's in the top three sprinters in
America and you know there's some things that I think we can certainly certainly learn from him
and being able to help in you know help being able to correlate some of the things that he does well
to you know some things that we can we can learn from a novice as well so eyes are seeing you know
we're getting into top-end speed here on the left side and and what I've really come to realize here
is that as we get closer and closer to top-end speed there becomes this relationship between
your ability to have postural strength whether that's in your lower back mid-back wherever it's
like the erectors the muscles on the back on your back in comparison to hip drive how well can you
get your knees up in comparison to how well you can keep your your spine upright and you can see
the difference between where we're at in these two different athletes sort of similar part of
their actual run but you can see notnot allows is very very strong in his overall ability to
drive his knees up and he's also very very his range of motion through his back is very very
good right so he's able to maintain a very high degree of postural stable stabilization postural
strength while he's able to very rapidly and very forcefully drive his knees up into the air and and
being able to work on that is something that is gonna be instrumental to being able to run faster
you could see the the knee drive here and part part of the reason that is is because you could
even see when he's landing let's look at no allows when he's landing and how upright he is right see
out how whooping type of position he's at when he's landing boom and comparison here where it's
more of a slant right so the the butt is a little bit further back the head is a little bit more
out in front and the feet are a little bit more behind we're here you're basically straight up and
down okay and a lot of people are suffering from this this is something that not only you know you
might not be at this degree where you're you're really far forward but there's a lot of people
that have one or all of these similar situations situations happening and even if you are landing
in more of this position you can still maximize how much force you're creating from this position
and how well you're able to stabilize in the spine while creating knee drives so just because you're
landing here doesn't mean you're not making the same mistakes that are being made over here so you
can see after the transition what happens is that there's a limitation look at in the back look at
the limitation and being able to maintain postural support right he's already grounded right there
that the the spine and it's a small degree right but sprinting and maximizing sprinting it's such
a small small detailed process so he's already rounded here in his lower back and so as our
sorry in his mid back he's rounding his mid-back not lower back he's pretty extended he's in a good
position his lower back so as he's getting his knee drive though he doesn't have any range of
motion in his lower back so as he's driving to the knee up he really can't achieve very much
knee drive because of the lack of range and and lack of support in the lower back in comparison
to no allows watch when he's going through his knee drive look at how much overall extension
he's able to get his back into makes it so he's able to drive that knee so much higher into the
actual end of the air and he's really able to maximize his turnover and and how much overall
distance he's getting per step right so a big big part again of recent I noticed this by going and
I when working out at Orangetheory it's a place where you can you go and you run on the treadmill
and I see other people sprinting next to me and I noticed that after you get going for a little
while you've been spraying for a little while this happens very very quickly people start to
lose their postural support they start to limit their knee drive and it really happens that the
more difficult the workout is or the higher the speed is on the treadmill right and so what we
want to be doing instead is as speed maximizes we were able to better knee Drive were able to better
maintain postural support and/or when you're able to run for a longer period of time you're able to
really hold that that postural support so you know that the overall reason why I wanted to
make this video is for you people to understand for the audience members understand that if you
do not have the right balance between postural stabilization postural support and hip flexor
strength knee Drive then that is going to have a significant impact on your speed performance
because you will not be able to get the same amount of distance in your steps and you won't
be able to create the same amount of power in each step ok so you want to be able this
is where I think treadmill training can be great for you is because it gives you the opportunity
to really focus on just that individual part of the run I know there's a lot of people that
think that treadmill is not good for your overall running but I believe because of the focus that
it puts on this very topic right postural support postural stability with me drive at rapid amounts
of speeds and/or for long distances will help you in developing the strength to be able to
maximize sprinting performance simple as that simple is that you guys have any questions let
me know we have some awesome deals ma'am I'm just talking to Wes one of our one of our guys in and
he has that he doesn't some team training stuff you could watch his videos as well and I saw him
end up from a fulfillment perspective I've never felt more fulfilled and being able to help some
of you guys out I hope there's people that are watching this that are able to connect that are
able to understand that are able to put this into their running if not you know we have so
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