Your Videos Analyzed + Toe Drag + 3-Stepping + Last Week's Training Plan

I'm Impressed

In our last post, Speed Over Everything, paid subscribers were asked to send videos for feedback. And you delivered! I even got to see a fellow coach’s speed and form. And I can’t deny, I’m impressed.

Thank you to everyone who submitted videos! There will be more chances to send videos for critique/analysis, so stay tuned!

If you didn’t send a video, that’s alright! You’re very much appreciated. And we can still learn from one another. Here are the three most common problems from sprinters in all of your videos.

Be More Aggressive

Human beings have a lot of complicated emotions in their lives, especially in the world we live in today. And the best, usually safest way, to get out that pent-up aggression is in sport and physical activity. In track & field, we can be more aggressive when striking and pushing off the ground, with body movements and overall intensity. Human beings are animals, and we have to find a way to help our athletes tap into that fearless aggression. PUSH off the ground. SNAP your arms to FULL range of motion. POWER through each step. Don’t let athletes stay in their comfort zone. In a 2017 NYT article about Usain Bolt, they wrote the max force Olympic-caliber sprinters produce is “five times their body weight” and “In Bolt’s case, his peak force can surpass 1,000 pounds” of pressure per square inch. How close can we get our athletes to that?

Let’s Talk About Form

In sprint technique, I look for elbow drive to reach high to the sky in the back then swing up to the cheek in the front. The back elbow drive will naturally open up into a larger angle then the arm drive will be smaller in the front as the hand comes to cheek height. Knees should get to 90 degrees at hip height. And always dorsiflex when driving the knee up. I look for those movements to be equal on the left and right sides of the body.