Are running drills helpful at all? What are some good running drills to do.
high knees
butt kicks
bounding
straight leg bounding
power skips
A’s
B’s
Karioka
Backwards running
Fast leg
Thats the drills that i do.
What is a drill?
drill1 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (drl)
n.
An implement with cutting edges or a pointed end for boring holes in hard materials, usually by a rotating abrasion or repeated blows; a bit.
The hand-operated or hand-powered holder for this implement.
A loud, harsh noise made by or as if by a powered tool of this kind.
Disciplined, repetitious exercise as a means of teaching and perfecting a skill or procedure.
A task or exercise for teaching a skill or procedure by repetition: conducted an air-raid drill; a drill for learning the multiplication tables.
The training of soldiers in marching and the manual of arms.
Any of various marine gastropod mollusks, chiefly of the genus Urosalpinx, that bore holes into the shells of bivalve mollusks. U. cinera is destructive to oysters.
v. drilled, drill·ing, drills
v. tr.
To make a hole in (a hard material) with a drill: a bit for drilling masonry.
To make (a hole) with or as if with a drill: drills holes in trees with its chisellike bill.
To strike or hit sharply: The batter drilled a single through the infield.
To instruct thoroughly by repetition in a skill or procedure: drill pupils in grammar.
To infuse knowledge of or skill in by repetitious instruction. See Synonyms at teach.
To train (soldiers) in marching and the manual of arms.
v. intr.
To make a hole with or as if with a drill.
thanks quik clemson this is a definition of a drill acording to www.dictionary.com
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=drill here is the link 
Disciplined, repetitious exercise as a means of teaching and perfecting a skill or procedure.
What causes the error? How do you correct it? When do you correct it?
i was recently at a lecture where a well respected speaker said that drills provide an opportunity to teach, however they do not transfer to full speed activity, and this is why the best coaches do not waste time collecting drills and doing drills all day at practice.
Is it just me, or is the buttkick drill a worthless drill? All it does is teach the body incorrect heel recovery. Unless you do the buttkicks in a more high-knee type motion, the drill is teaching incorrect mechanics. Am I right here? Does anyone agree/disagree?
I agree 400stud - I think most people just do it as a warm up - it sort of stretches the quads nicely / flexes hams
gloopzilla.
EXACTLY! exactly what i was thinking. It stretches the quads and hip flexors nicely.
I have found the best best drill for sprinters. It is called “sprinting”.
I love the sarcasm!
I was just referring to buttkicks as a warmup/technical drill. I do them at meets because they do warm up muscles and kind of help me shake nerves, but as a technical drill, as some use it, I feel it is worthless.
If some drills are considered worhtless, why do them? That time came be best spent on some of the fundamentals of sprinting. Drills as we know them, never teach the stretch reflex needed for sprintings. To get the stretch reflex, you have to sprint. I believe most drills are over rated. I go to track meets and see these athletes performing these drills perfectly but are in the back of the pack when it come to race time. The more you sprint, the better you you become as a sprinter. This is also where you work those kinks out…just by sprinting. If you have the choice between doing a drill and sprinting…the choice should be obvious.
Perhaps people could post their athletes that run without drills…let’s see the results.
“Drills” used in the warm-up are good for activating the nervous system and increasing blood flow to the muscles. Using drills with the expectation of correct execution during competition is a mistake. As mentioned before, sprinting is the best drill for sprinting.
Does anyone here teach recovery mechanics of the lower body when sprinting? Biomechanically speaking, this occurs naturally due to the conservation of angular momentum when the femur stops moving in the posterior direction and begins movement toward the anterior. Any thoughts?
Primal movement is great…the question is what articficial yet necessary items are interfering with that?
Again…let us review the film…let the games begin! Let’s see the reflex at it’s finest.
i totally have to agree with coach hare.the best drill for sprinting is sprinting itself.
ok drills have a specific role in training but more emphasis should be placed on technique at high speeds through the full sprint motion.no drill can duplicate this movement other than sprinting itself.you can break down the componants of sprinting with specific drills but will they enhance the technique at full speed?
I think they will. You have to go over the technique slowly before you implement it at a faster rate. When I began to do the walking high knees drill, my balance was off, and I identified a weak point via drills. I think everything has its place and can be beneficial.
X-Man, you are right.
The only time that you can perform sprint technique properly is during sprinting not during drills (unless the drill is sprinting itself). Sprinting is holistic and must be approached that way.
(Holistic: relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems rather than with the analysis of, treatment of, or dissection into parts.) The recovery action is never forced otherwise, there will be a lost of force during force application. I personally do not do a lot of drills. My focus is more on force application and the rest just unfolds.
It seems like there is a consensus that these drills are usefull possibly as a warmup only because nothing comes close to the speed of sprinting.
To extend the question along these lines, if sprinting is too fast for drills to help, would drills be more helpful to a distance runner who races at a slower speed or would even a distance runner be going to fast for these drills to help in this way?
Charlie will have a comprehensive section on the application of sprinting drills in his new manual. We sat down for a few hours and discussed the merits and disbenefits of drills in general, and specific drills used by coaches. He provides a great breakdown of when drills are needed, and when they aren’t. This discussion leads into a whole discussion of biomechanics of sprinting and when and how corrections should be made to a particular athlete. Good stuff.