what's up everyone Morey Croson to hear from the performance lab of California and we have another
breakdown here for you it is Sydney McLaughin Sydney is a new somebody that's definitely a
little bit newer to the scene she's like a younger four and a meter hurdler you know did really good
in her in her Olympics and definitely gonna be a rising star in the the track and field area and
wanted to get her a break get a breakdown for you guys I'm sure everybody's heard about her
and knows what she's done I mean she's really done a ton especially for our young seniors so
excited to do this breakdown as I hope you guys are excited to check it all out so unfortunately
the the angles it was hard to get really good consistent angles here for for the running stuff
but I do think we got two really good important things we want to talk about one from the front
than one from the side so starting from the front get the feet and and the legs but I do think that
what we were able to get in the front with the rotation of the core is very very interesting
just because it's very very symmetrical I mean she does a really really good job of creating a
good amount of rotation and her spine and each one of her her steps and how well she's able to
twisted her obliques from one side to the other and uses that to really generate a good amount
of force notice how well that like right here she's rotates to the right and as she rotates
to the right she also synergistically gets right hip flexion very very well and that it's all very
very powerful you could tell that is she's doing a great job of using her obliques and using up
the mid-back in order to generate a lot of force but if you look at her arms she's not moving too
much side-to-side there's a little bit of a sway when she gets to the end like when the elbows go
back they're a little bit out to the side but then they end up we're pretty far right back
behind her and same thing with the other side of the elbow it's gonna start off to the side
but then they do a good job closing back up and getting right back behind her and you know that
might by zooming in it might not be a bad time technique especially for the longer distance
people to be able to get a little bit more you know length as you go or as you begin bringing
that elbow back and bring it out to the side a little bit more just so that you can get more of
like that pullback right there I'm talking about the right elbow here so bring the right elbow
back to the side a little bit so then you can get plenty of room to get all the way into extension
you can see she's using part of her mid-back to help her get more oblique activation there so
definitely a good thing to do from an overall endurance standpoint is being able to sync up
how how you're rotating your spine because when it ends up being endurance your your legs that
can't take on as much of it you have to be able to be very very calm and fluid in your spine in
order to really maximize your overall capabilities but even you know look at Sydney compared to the
first behind her here where you know when she goes here when she swings her left arm back you
could see how well she rotates here in comparison to her competitor not as good of a rotation right
right side also she does a really good job getting good rotation on the right side and
then also plenty of rotation on the left side so that's excellent excellent running form there and
then when she gets around the corner you know big thing that stands out is excellent job of getting
full extension like I was straight her leg is when she touches the ground and then from there
she doesn't spend very much time on the ground before she's kicking right back up and she has
just such a beautiful bringing that heel up to her but look how much range of motion she has
there and then gets right back on it strides out if she was able to really reach and get that leg
all the way out in front and be able to create a better pullback she'd be had been able to get a
little bit faster here so she's she's missing kind of that last little pull here to really accelerate
her speed and that's gonna be able to gets her to the next level but in terms of how well she lands
and keeps her her leg pretty straight and then pushes off and she has again just such a great
push off and being able to brett driver heel right to her but i mean that extension back behind her
is so so good i love being able to see that just because it just it shows exactly what you want to
do i mean look at how good that extension looks right there that's exactly what you want to get
with that uprights fine i mean it takes a lot of course for and really you we saw how she's using
her core right she's being very very efficient in her overall movement patterns automation so then
she can use our corner way to better maximize the potential of the lower body so it takes a whole a
whole effort right in the arms are what our help with helping her eat better utilize the core again
the core is helping making it so she's nice and stable here so that you can get good natural hip
extension down and in the and and the lower body the only thing I would say she just need to get
that knee up when she gets here try to keep that heel close to but her butt a little bit longer as
she drives that knee up and then be able to pull back and create some force and initially within
that that upper hamstring and if she was able to do that more effectively she would definitely be
in the record and that's gonna be what ends up being will end up being very important for her
and developing her mechanics to make it so she get get faster you could obviously get a little
stronger you know in certain areas of the body and in the legs and everything it actually grows
I'm sure things like that will happen but if she could just work on being able to improve
her ability to create that that pull back and get that knee up and keeping that heel the background
when she's when she's bringing her legs back for that's gonna be a key part of making it so she
can really reach the the next level her overall performance so yeah I hope you guys enjoyed the
video I think that you can get some great stuff one you know most importantly how you can use
your your upper body arms and hand core in order to maximize your your performance and how those
two areas work together and then how to really push back and get that heel to button make that
look very very pretty and then you know how you know really the landing I think the thing that's
a great thing to be able to learn how to get that that late-night straight because I see a lot of
guys when they land or a lot of people and they land their their legs and they're pretty pretty
bent where you could see here she does a great job maintaining a lot of extension and her legs
as she's touching the ground which is definitely something that you want to be able to replicate
in order to really get the most out of your sprint so as always guys thanks for watching these videos
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