Question for Charlie regarding warm-up 2

[Charlie_Francis]

@Nikoluski

Thanks, Charlie! The foot is getting sore in the arch and it is painful after the session, later on that day and next morning. The nature of this athlete’s work doesn’t help either (standing long hours). After yesterday’s session it was better today, but we still insisted on MB static work, as per your DVD and Minimum jogging/running. Today’s treatment should help more as well along with one anti-inflammatory pill per day for a couple of days now. This makes me believe that he should be able to deal with some acceleration work from blocks tomorrow as the only running part.

I understand the nature of the drill you describe and I actually had in mind to do more volume with Squat Throws on a big mat. From the blocks position though where/how is the MB held? Do you support yourself with the hands ON the ball? I’ve never tried this before…

How does the rest of the plan look like?

I would definitely not do full starts till the meet- why aggrivate it beforehand? The MB drill I describe has the ball held to the chest like a chest pass drill and you drop forward with your feet in the blocks and drive forward, pushing the ball out pretty much horizontally as you leave the blocks, landing flat on the mat. (it looks much like the MB drills launching over the HJ pit in the GPP download