short stride length, flexibility problem?

[Track_man]

@Football28

Too much lower back on those deadlifts.

@syrus2001

You took you’re hips out from the begining. At first you were set up in a good position and then lifted you’re butt up before the lift. Keep the butt down and do the lift.

yah i know what you guys are saying, couple guys told me that when i originally showed the videos on another forum and i’ve mostly fixed the technical issue in my deadlifts now.

@fogelson

All the videos are old and the sprint videos have about half a second of film worth analyzing.

You’re young. Just keep training and stop worrying about the minutia and asking stupid questions–it will only hinder your progress. Get out of the mindset now that strength in the weightroom equals or even approximates strength on the track and that strength in the weightroom is going to translate to improvements on the track without significant work. Looking at your sprint videos alone it looks like you are stuck in this syndrome already because your upper body is incredibly rigid and it is hard to say, but your hips actually do look fairly tight in that video. ROM on mobility drills or stretches =/= muscle tone and tissue quality. This is why there are plenty of girls that can do all of the splits in the world and still look like their pelvis is in rigor mortis when they sprint.

Can you clarify further into this?
what do you mean my upper body’s rigid? and if mobility stuff/stretching aint gonna be good for me, whats your reccomendation?

[system]

Your upper body is rigid. There is crap movement around the shoulders, they are up rather than down, and your upper back is not moving smoothly. Mobility work and stretching can work–I never said it wasn’t good. I said simply looking at a number (as in, peak ROM you can reach in a given stretch) isn’t a good idea nor is it a good indicator of tissue quality, which is more important and probably more related to your hip tightness. Further, people can and often do cheat on stretches, which you are likely doing as well, which is going to create a false negative.

[Track_man]

@fogelson

Your upper body is rigid. There is crap movement around the shoulders, they are up rather than down, and your upper back is not moving smoothly. Mobility work and stretching can work–I never said it wasn’t good. I said simply looking at a number (as in, peak ROM you can reach in a given stretch) isn’t a good idea nor is it a good indicator of tissue quality, which is more important and probably more related to your hip tightness. Further, people can and often do cheat on stretches, which you are likely doing as well, which is going to create a false negative.

kk, so your basic reccomendation is more mobility work?
and upper body movement? same thing?

[sady]

@fogelson

people can and often do cheat on stretches, which you are likely doing as well, which is going to create a false negative.

Stand beside a squat rack, just touch it with quad, hip and shin, you knoiw a straight posture. Now bend knee and hold foot with hand, push knee back, do you know this pain, if not you are cheating with the stretches too.

[Chris6878]

HAve a good chiro or phys therapist check to see if you have tight psoas.