hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we'll be going over how to fix landing on
your heels and we'll start the video right now this is the newest edition of the performance
reach your individual goals you don't want to just talk about straight lines
we also want to talk about your delivery quick we break down your video let's make you into
the quarterback i know you can become alright so real quickly i want to go into
why landing on your heels is going to end up slowing you down and this is going to really be
a big focus on you know more sprinting but it's going to be really both types of you know either
long distance running or sprinting but today we're going to go a little bit more into just like the
sprinting side of it but you know what ends up happening is when you're running and you land
on the heels your way out one of the things is you're way out in front of yourself right
so when you want to be able to talk about having to cycle your legs quickly what's an important
thing that you have to recognize or understand is that in order to be able to cycle that leg as fast
as you can you know when our foot hits the ground there ends up being this time where you have to be
able to like control the ankle and then be able to then push right back off within the foot right and
the concept is we have to be able to minimize that the best we can right so the least amount of time
that we're spending on the ground and still being able to maximize the force production is critical
so when we land and we hit our heel first what happens is that now we have this contact then we
have that contact then we have stabilization then we have push off right so it just takes a lot more
time to do that in comparison and even when you're doing that it ends up being this time period where
you have to you know hit and and this is like a deceleration force right because we're going and
we're hitting the ground like this so now we're slowing ourselves down then we have to transition
and then we have to really push ourselves back off in comparison to if we're landing on the balls of
our feet and really if we're able to cycle that leg and land with that foot right up underneath
us now we're already generating force backwards so that when our foot hits the ground we just need to
really be able to stabilize that landing position and then be able to push right back off so it
just ends up being a lot more efficient a lot more effective and really makes it so you can continue
to move fast rather than have to slow down and speed up speed slow down speed up which is what
you're doing when you're landing on the heel and then having to accelerate from there so one of the
best things that i think you could do in order to fix this and really be able to understand
mechanically what you want to be doing is one just working on your straight leg run so i'm here i'm
just pumping my arms nicely and i'm just landing on the balls of my feet so as i'm doing that
i'm really trying to be able to understand how to get that action down really using my lower core in
order to you know get that going and then another big thing is just working on the leg cycle itself
extend pull and when i'm pulling i want to be landing on the balls of my feet now i'll
implement both of those from here and then i'm just cycling my legs right so you could see there
i'm just gonna do only my left leg i'll come back doing my right leg okay and as i'm doing that i'm
really putting a focus on making sure i'm landing at the balls of my feet make sure i'm pulling
my foot back underneath me i'm now going to do both legs so i'm just going to be cycling through
and it's really about creating that rhythm where you start to get an understanding of exactly how
to be able to cycle that leg up get that knee up to the hip extend out in front and then pull back
underneath in a way that's going to make it so now when your foot hits you can go and immediately
strike right back off the ground because the big thing is you know the more effectively you can
go and kind of land more on the front part of the foot the more your heel is almost kind of upwards
will make it so then you can accelerate off just that much faster and that's what i see with people
that end up landing with their heels is you know you're going to end up just spending a lot more
time on the ground and you're slowing yourself down right because now you're hitting out here
way out in front of yourself so now the natural inclination is to have to stop and then have to
accelerate as i come up over the top in comparison to coming through and then pushing right off so if
you find yourself landing on your heels you really want to be able to put a big focus on correcting
that it's not something that ends up taking a super long period of time but it is something
that is very very instrumental in being able to continue to develop your speed and continue
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out because that's going to be one of the best things that will help you in being able to really
visually see what it is that you need to do and then you know one of the reasons i'm making this
video is because one of my you know people that did a breakdown they were having some issues and
were like hey how can i fix landing on the heel so i was like hey let's just make a video here i
think it's a great topic i think you'd help out a lot of people and it's the same thing for you
you know if you send in something and we want to be able to make an improvement i probably already
have a video on it or a drill or something but if i don't i'm going to make one and we'll make sure
that you're able to understand exactly what it is that you need to be doing within your sprinting
in order to continue to make gains in order to continue to make strides because that's to me
the biggest thing when it comes to throwing the ball further jumping higher running faster you got
to be specific on what are the areas that need to improve and i need to be able to rapidly improve
those areas not slow consistent no it's got to be rapid right it's got to be fast not that it's that
it's not consistent but it's got to be fast right i don't want it to be three months until
you get better i want it to be this week you are better in throwing further in accelerating in
whatever the case may be better utilizing your big toe when you're pushing off whatever the case is
we got to be able to do and we got to be able to make those improvements quickly so
again check out the description to find a little bit more about our programs
and doing some of our breakdowns but as always thanks for watching and we'll talk to you soon