hey what's up everyone Morey Croson here from the performance lab of California and we got
another breakdown here for you today we're getting back into doing some speed breakdowns so I'm very
very excited about that we got Christian McCaffrey here the big thing that I just wanted to show with
Jewish Christian McCaffrey is you can really get good angles when you're doing the 40-yard dash of
your start and I think you're started is obviously crucial when it comes to being able to reach your
overall maximum potential during a race and so really getting into some of the nitty-gritty of
what Christian McCaffrey does very good and making it so that you guys can utilize that
in your actual training and and ability to kind of understand the whole run and I think the big
thing to really see with what he does with his start is what he does with his feet right and
being able to really have a good amount of range of motion in that foot so as he's driving forward
notice how he's able to get a lot this foot here notice how much Bend he's able to create in those
toes so he's got great range of motion so his foot is there's really bending over those toes
right there but then as he's continuing to bend he does a great job of being able to get back forward
and really get that heel really high up as he's pushing off which is really an underutilized or
undervalued thing within running so notice how well he's able to get all the way up and over
get those heels all the way up and those toes all the way through as he's pushing off okay notice
again here is and does a great job of landing and when landing really being able to be solid in that
landing so notice how his heels don't go very close to the ground he touches and he's able to
get a lot of range of motion back in that foot and drive off and push off and get a lot of extension
there okay no I was just going we'll get a little bit more into it so you know what he does as he
started skidding going here is he does a really good job of keeping a good a good overall spine
angle it's obviously got a lot of coaching as he's been doing these you just maintains a great spun
ELA thread there's a little bit of time here where he gets a little bit rounded right there with that
head but then from after that he does a pretty good job of keeping that spine angle nice and
locked throughout the entire run you know and driving now the big thing that I think he can
improve on as he gets going we'll see is gonna be the knee drive and and really not really the
knee drive but really how he extends through so once he gets to that that maximum angle what he
does you know it's super well and they'll get into Adam or what he can prove on so notice again will
you because he's so strong with his feet how when he pushes off he does such a good job of creating
extension through that leg so I look through that back leg here so his extending excellently through
that back leg boom and then right from there he drives this foot right up to his but there very
little rate wasted motion and getting that heel right back up to his butt and then from there he
drives that knee forward really really really excellently there and then goes into extension
now this is where there's some area to improve is once he gets that extension out in front of
them rider his leg gets out here what he wants to start doing is being able to pull that leg back
harder right so once he gets out here pull that leg back instead of right now where he almost has
letting that foot just come kind of straight down to the ground which is making it so his foot lands
a little bit out in front of his hip and he's not as much on the ball of his foot but if we
got here and he really pulled that leg back to you notice how he's not pulling back he's more
going towards the ground and that's main so he's not getting as much overall force into the actual
grunty and go and really drive into the balls of his feet I mean he makes up for that because
as you transfers through you really has a lot of great foot range of motion so he can still
generate a good amount of force off the off his foot but if he pulled there he'd get a lot more
overall success in the actual runt but then again notice how he recuperates well drives
again off that back leg gets a really good amount of extension really again the big his big overall
strength is being able to get so much extension on that back leg and notice how he has good a
good position the spine good extension in that low back extends drives that heel right back up
to his butt and that's I mean it's so fast how quick he drives that heel up to his butt that
I mean if we play it in fast motion you would probably you know can't really even notice how
how fast it is but it is it's an excellent range there really when he's running fast motion looks
pretty good you could see even in in that how much time is spent in his feet in front of him instead
of his feet behind him and the reason there's more time soon with his feet in front of them
it's just because he doesn't drive that that his legs back as much as he's able to get that heel
to his butt that's he's much cleaner at getting his heel to his butt in comparison to driving
that leg back after he gets into full flexion all right now another big thing I'd say that
it's important here is you know we always talk about when you're coming up you want to drive
that elbow up to the same height as the shoulder right notice how well he does that both sides
he's very very need obviously very well coach at that you know he gets those elbows up in a good
position he's also very very symmetrical in his actual running so he's getting those hands all
the way up to and when you want to get those when you drive those hands you want to get those hook
those fingers up to at least that chin height so see how he's getting those fingers those fingers
up and getting those arms up as he's driving forward as well and again that makes it so he
can say very very symmetrical he's running and what he's able to do or what is so strong on him
that makes that happen it's that core with that core being so strong he's able to really create
a lot of driving force with those arms and still maintain a very very symmetrical position which
is something that is not easy to do you got to be able to create a lot of force in your arms
and not move a lot in your in your core okay a lot of times once guys start to really create a
lot of force in their arms they stop and start to either lose their ability to maintain a good
turnover with their legs or their lose a good position with the spine just because there's
so much overall force being generated it's hard to again maintain that position which I which
Christian McCaffrey does excellently and that's really one of the main reasons why I wanted to
do the break down on him is so you could really see very cleanly what that looks like all right
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