Sprinting Coach/Athlete: Knowing to much about sprinting can be detrimental!

[izzle1989]

@clymb420

Yep, misunderstood your original question.

I find it helpful to only focus on what my posture, and what my biggest joints (hips and and shoulders) are doing. Good spine and pelvis posture are essential for anything else to happen correctly. After that, I know that the body has a “proximal-to-distal” reflex. Meaning if you use the most proximal joints correctly, which are the biggest and strongest, with good ROM and timing, then the rest of the more distal joints (smaller and progressively weaker) will work correctly and efficiently without much effort. Allowing the bodies reflexes to work is more than half the battle. This is why in an earlier post is suggested that you try to relax your hamstrings when running at top speed.

That is one or two things that I’ll focus on mostly during a workout. I’ll really focus on posture early on in warm-up, then once I feel like I have some solidity there I’ll mostly think about hip extension for the rest of warm-up…and then usually when I get into build-ups I’ll start to work shoulders into the hip extension cueing mix. After that, if my nervous system is relatively responsive that day I’ll throw one or two more things in there…but 75% of time will leave it at that.

Okay that is very understandable. I will just try to keep it simple and continue to work on posture, pumping my arms, and stepping down.