hey what's up everyone morey croson here and we have another new breakdown for you today it's
going to be a before and after video of justin gatlin and how he was able to make some technique
changes over the years to be able to help him run i think a little bit more efficiently and also be
able to stay healthy for such a long period of time and also give some technique understanding
of what he was able to do from when he was in college of tennessee in comparison to what he
was doing when he beat usain bolt a few years ago so as always if you like the content in the
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in the video right now okay so here on the left we have justin gatlin when he beat usain bolt and
christian coleman it was a great race back in 2017 and then here we have justin gatlin when he was
in college 2001 uh winning a national championship and another you know big big great race uh and
just gonna go into some of the numbers to start out so i have right here the first thing that
stood out to me is that his contact time when he was at tennessee the time spent on the ground was
at about point one where where he was uh here in this race he was at about .08 on the right and .07
on the left so he was able to really make a big impact on his contact times time's been on the
ground which is really the biggest thing that i think he was able to make improve on improvement
on in his overall technique over the years but you know the thing that also stood out to me
is that his transition time the time spent off the ground as the legs is swinging through was
.37 on the right and .39 on the left um now and and then back in when he was at tennessee it was
.36 on the right and point four on the left so just a little bit more of a separation of time
on before when he was at tennessee in comparison now where is a little bit more symmetrical i think
when you're able to be more symmetrical with your transition it really reduces your injury
risk and it really makes it so you're much more efficient as you're running but i think from a
performance perspective he's really to make able to make an impact on his contact timing and when
you go and you look into the numbers if you're able to save every 100 you're able to save with
the time spent on the ground it really makes a big impact on your ability to really maximize
your force production and the amount of you know time you actually take to run the 100 meters right
so if you cut out an extra 100th of a second for every single step as you're going through
you could end up saving yourself you know eight to you know maybe even a tenth of a second so
that ends up being super important especially if you're able to do it on each foot and so that's
always why it's something that i look a lot into is being able to maximize your contact time now
as we go through the actual run one of the things that that was interesting is you know he's kind of
uh known for being a little bit late and getting his head up in the into the air as he's going
so i wanted to be able to compare that uh from you know where he was at at tennessee
8 9 10 11 12 13. but he still you know takes 13 steps there one two three four five 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 and and he's still at the same position here um where right at 13 is when he has
his head up so you know something that i think he was able to stay pretty consistent with over the
years and then as we see him get into his actual run here we could see that you know he does do a
great job of being able to really maximize that that contact time as we talked about before but
also another thing that stands out especially when you see it from this angle is that as soon as he
pushes off the ground he just does a great job of being able to drive that knee through very very
quickly i think before when he was at tennessee he might have gotten his feet a little bit higher
up into the air which might have slowed down his ability to drive his knees forward and especially
you know on that right side uh left side he ended up always having a pretty good uh transition time
there but you know being able to to really work on being able to drive his knees through i think
helped him making it so he was able to maybe get a little bit more of a straight leg as he's coming
through when we look to see you know when he was running before he looked like he was crossing
over a little bit more um as he was running notice how you know where he's stepping here
and then how his legs coming across and then you know how his body ends up kind of crossing over
um especially on that left side a little bit more so neat comes in words and so that ends up i think
again impacting that transition time also impacts the contact time and makes it so you end up you
know not being able to interact with the ground the same way from one side to the other and then
that is what causes overcompensation makes it so you end up utilizing more muscles on one part of
your body than on the other side of the body and that begins the process of inefficiency which
then can end up causing some type of injury and so being able to navigate that make sure you have a
good understanding a clear understanding of what's going on in your body to make sure that you're not
over compensating for certain muscles or you know not missing a lot of range of motion on one side
of your body compared to the other makes it so one you'll be able to maximize your performance a lot
better but also will help you in staying healthy overall as you get into higher and higher levels
of performance you know watching him here he just does such a great job and getting that leg out in
front of him extending and i think that's where he's able to maximize the contact time is that
when you can see how his leg extends out now he doesn't have to spend as much time on the ground
and then he does such a great job of being able to to decelerate land with his legs pretty straight
and then pop right back up i mean he's not really losing any height within his head within his body
he's just able to land and then push right back off and really maximize that turnover time it's
crazy to see you know where christian coleman was in comparison to everybody here and then how he
ended up kind of losing that race um and to me i think a big part of it ends up being if you look
at christian coleman when he's landing he ends up landing with a lot more of a knee bend position
right when he's swinging through right here notice where christian coleman is obviously out in front
notice where his knees are at and the position of his body so that makes it so when he pushes
off he has a lot more of like a downward movement and his body you can see how he kind of sinks down
a little bit more into it right there right and then pushes off with justin gatlin does a great
job of being able to maintain a lot of height and you can see that as he's going through he's
able to keep a lot of extension within his legs so he's able to push off right away which made it so
he was able to really catch him there at the end and be able to pull out this this victory which
i think was a that's a huge victory for him um as a as a competitor be able to beat you usain bolt
and christian coleman um and i think this is the last time all three of them raced and was such a
huge win i mean just wanted to give a little bit more of a perspective of some of the differences
that you could see with uh you know justin gatlin from before in comparison to you know where he's
at now unfortunately this camera angle wasn't as good it also looks like he doesn't drive that left
knee across as much anymore you know he still is able to swing that right leg more straight through
left leg does come a little bit more across but i think he was able to work on that to be able
to even that out a little bit from you know where he started to where he's at now um but you know
still was a little bit of some technique changes i think it really goes a long way in being able
to maximize your again your efficiency and then also your body your ability for your body to stay
healthy so um hopefully this video helps in being able to understand that maybe make it so you can
you know get some type of a breakdown either looking at yourself you could also send a video
to me i'd be happy to be able to you know look at your sprinting and be able to kind of compare it i
always look in and you know see your your running style and compare it to maybe like a justin
gatlin or christian coleman or usain bolt just based off your body type and your running style
and give you some ideas to what you could do to be able to maximize it i think it's a lot it's
a lot more difficult when you're just looking at it you don't really know what you're looking for
um and where there could be some differences where i you know i'm constantly watching sprinters run
constantly watching other athletes run and being able to break those down being able to
get a better understanding of where you are and where you want to be and so being able to send
in some some video to me i can really help you out and being able to understand what you could
do to really maximize your turnover and really um you know do a great job of maximizing also
your contact time which is really the name of the game in order to run faster you got to be able to
be very quick and not spend any extra time on the ground and then you also have to be able to
be very efficient with your time spent off of the ground in order to really make sure that there's
no wasted time neither and also no wasted force in either one of those all right so hopefully you
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