Sprinting Technique - Sprint Faster with a Proper Foot Strike
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Learn how to sprint faster by maximizing ground contact and developing a proper foot strike. A common mistake many sprinters make is striking the ground on their toes resulting in massive ankle amortization and increased ground contact times. The goal of these drills is to get the athlete to develop a flat foot strike by overemphasizing landing flat on the heel. The result will be a flat foot strike during sprinting (landing on the forefoot or where the track spikes are).
During upright sprinting elite athletes generate between five and ten times more vertical force compared to horizontal force (Seagrave, Mouchbahani, & O’Donnell, 2009). Large forces, applied in a short time, in the right direction, and through the optimal range of motion allow fast sprinters to cover 69% more ground per stride than their slower counterparts.
In this lesson Coach Karim teaches the correct technique to maximize force application to the ground and shares some key sprinting drills to help develop a correct foot strike.
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Sprinting is the king of it all man. Took me a long time to figure it out. Never lose your ability to sprint. It is amazing for the body and muscles. I hadn’t sprinted from 20 to basically 30. I’m back to the drawing board.
Couldn't agree more!
This makes perfect sense. Landing flat foot allows you to get maximum leverage on the toe push off as the foot travels through the maximum angle possible. It also saves time as there is no delay as the heel drops.
Heck yeah, you got it!
2:51, as someone with longs legs this has to be one of the best pieces of advice I could've gotten. Even just comparing the 'Z' to the 'L' while standing still and planting my foot down, I can feel a hell of a lot more force being pushed into the ground.
That's great to hear!
Where do you find the most used muscle control/contraction, in this specific movement?
When you do it, theres always a secret compound contraction to recover the leg in sprints.
Been looking everyday to find better explanations for movements as such
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@@OutperformOfficial So when sprinting we must focus on landing on the heel?
Actually she didn’t land on the heel, it’s juste a tool useful for dorsi flexion. She lands on the mid foot, it’s good
Thank you for this video. I restarted sprinting a few years ago after 15 years. (I'm now 40 years old) I had some injuries in my calves, hamstrings and even got a bursitis near my achilles tendon. Today I tried your technique in my training and it felt a lot better.
Great to hear you're getting back into sprinting and that this video helped. Good luck on your journey!
omg my achilles tendons always hurt sm thats the main thing that hurts when i run/ sprint
@@johnnwako2488 He said this was an over exaggeration done during the drill
He is correct, when you land straight on the ball of the feet you lose sprint leverage, so the more flat footed you land then the more sprint leverage and power you get. He explained that the heel example is an *overexaggeration* to re-train our foot to land more flat footed.
You got it! Thanks emperor536
how do you get flat footed on spikes, ecspecially the more curved ones. I was always taught to run on the upper part of your foot. I probably understood it wrong though but it just dosnt make sense to me.
@@jessieRoselambI think u run like flat footed whilst dorsiflexing, but since your having your foot flat, only the spikes touch the ground
I thank you so much for this. I've been doing track for 2 seasons straight now into my Senior year next year. I've been running on my toes for years now, I'm a short distance running in which my first season of track I almost qualified for state. No one has ever told me that my form was wrong this whole time because I'm pretty fast and the fastest at my school, When I mean I don't use the middle of my foot nor heel when running I really don't, and I didn't know I could be wayyy faster than I am now if I just run correctly and improve my form, I've thought it was me getting slow, so I've been trying to stay less off my feet by running on my toes. I have 4 more meets for me to qualify for state and I'm going to watch this video everyday until I drill it into my HEAD!!!
You're very welcome Davo, that is great to hear. Let us know how it goes, best of luck on your remaining meets!
how did it go?
@@shershahiqbal6792 Went to state that year then college hope it’s all well for yourself.
Never considered that Z form when running, always did that L shape. Gonna try it the right way next time I sprint. Very useful information. Thank you!
I've never had any special training, I'm 38 years old now and I'm still running 100m in 11,50 - 11,80.l, 11,88.
In my 20s my fastest time was 10,93..and my goal is reaching that time again.
Let's see how it goes.
Great to hear you are still sprinting Pello! Keep us up to date with your progress.
@@OutperformOfficial thank you so much! I'd be glad to inform you, take care and stay safe!!
Got any tips lol. I feel bad that this 38 year old out there would leave me in the dust and I'm 17 😭😭😭
How bro plz reply i have events i need to qualify in 15 Seconds
Tell me some best tipes to increase speed of 100m plz plZ plz
@@AKASHAKASH-sp4yd did you qualify lol
She's got a nice build. Learned a lot from this video. Great types!! Thanks for sharing!!
Glad it was helpful!
Landing on the heel is going to increase ground contact time. I disagree with what he is saying. Everything else is fine.
Hey David, thanks for the comment! Check out this video we posted to clarify ground contact ruclips.net/video/dN9sChyubSc/видео.html you are correct and we definitely don't want people to think they should land on the heel during sprinting.
I agree
@@OutperformOfficial I would imagine when you say "land on heel" you only mean in from a cueing perspective, right?
@@trainzen6805 According to Coach Karim, yes that is the idea, overemphasize the movement in drills to train the nervous system to develop good dorsiflexion when sprinting.
Lol your never supposed to land on the heal that’s super bad because of all the force your putting on it.
I HAVE TRACK AND FIELD TOMORROW AND I NEED TO RUN FASTER AND THIS HAS HELPED SO MUCH THANK YOU!
Great to hear, good luck!
The actually meet is on june 7 but the practices are in the early morning and afternoon
I can't thank you enough for these videos
He knows what he's talking about.
Anton Chigurh would like to have a convo with him.
This is amazing explanation!! I am speechless
this video makes so much sense, I have midlands trails on Friday and today is Tuesday, I've been doubting myself, telling myself I'm now slow because I run short distance (sprinter) but I had the form all wrong . hopefully I will be able to run in the Z form and make it for the team
thank u for this
You're very welcome, that is great to hear! Best of luck making the team, let us know how it goes.
She's so fluid looking---like a gazelle.
So a skips with b skips working on form will help me get faster adding this to my workout thanks coach
I had no idea there was this much technique involved
Yes, a lot of people have no idea how technical sprinting is.
i seen this video many times but its only now that i eventually get to understand exactly what he meant by stepping flat footed. gracias x-pollination!
Thank u went. From. 5th to 2nd
Heck Yeah!
Don't do this without shoes or shoes not well cushioned. The "flat-footed" landing he teaches is actually midfoot landing because of the heel raise and extra heel cushion in shoes.
Excellent comment ! Running in barefoot style changes this just enough to make a huge difference 🦶🏾
I’m going to try this next time. Thank you so much for this tip. “L” to “Z”
This surprisingly correct my technique and poster at the same time
Fantastic!
This isn’t heel striking at all, but mid foot it gives you that spring effect. Makes you bouncy, the heel will only slow you down.
Bingo
Yeah I was gonna say..using less foot will help not lose momentum. Supposed to land on your mid foot to balls of toes. At least what I’ve heard
The legs though are completely right.
This teaching has helped me so much. I'm a Master track athlete and I hope to run a 200 or 400 soon THANKS to this training foot landing advice. THANK YOU
Always great to hear from Master track athletes, glad it helped!
Update?
Ty this helps me in my race
She has great form.
I appreciate your very well explained advice. I hope I get faster after I incorporate those exercises.
I hope so too!
Bro thank u i needed this im having a race soon in 3/4 weeks this will be helpful
Welcome and good luck!
Just the video I needed! Thanks
Wish i had a coach to train me . I live in a village and its hard to learn the proper form without the teacher.
Same with me
just run to the nearest coaching centre
@@siddhantroy9066 thats easier said than done
Usain Bolt's heels never touch the ground during his 100m races
No sprinters do, he’s showing a technique for developing dorsiflexion.
He flew the 100m lol levitated
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Awesome, thank you and welcome!
This was a good one, thanks!
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Lol not wrong mate
Excellent tutorial..thanks.
Im 1 of the slowest kids in class thanks for helping me get faster🎉🎉🎉
Happy to help!
This guy is the best
This is so good
Thanks coach
Also I presume it's about dorsiflexion,love the bit about the Z shape,
Excellent video and explanations! Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
@@OutperformOfficial Looking at getting your speed/sprinting program/course for my son. He’s 9yrs old and plays soccer and starting football in a couple years. Would your training program/course help him in those type of sports that are not track per se and have a lot of changing directions, lateral movements etc?
@@marshallgordon8968 We are going to be releasing a new Athletic Speed course that is specifically designed for multi directional athletes in the next few weeks. Should be a perfect fit for your son.
@@OutperformOfficial perfect! Thank you
Thank you this is educative
I am learning that proper wording matters. In observing elite marathoners and sprinters, I see that even elite marathoners land mostly flat footed during normal pace running while they as well as sprinters gravitate towards ball of foot striking in sprint phase. I only wished I would have known about proper running technique while training in high school for 800 yard dash. The small school I attended did not have a huge athletic budget, so track and field was a peripheral sport. We used the cleats the football team wore in training sessions and did our warmup runs on a mile rectangular road loop (can you say clack, clack, clack, clack!?). We did our sprint work initially on a grass football field and then on the asphalt road that surrounded that field. I did develop shin splints a few times and had to forego running track my freshman year due to knee issues in addition to the shin splints (super disappointing after my 8th grade year that saw me develop into a decently good middle distance sprinter who could nearly do the splits). Heel striking should never be encouraged at any point of training since the correct natural tendency of the body is to land flat footed when wearing minimalist track shoes during pace phase of running followed by ball strike running during all out sprint phase. You might want to edit your video.
Thanks for detailed comment Cornell. What coach Karim is talking about in this video pertains to this specific drill and is used as a cue to get athletes to understand what proper dorsiflexion feels like. He definitely doesn't encourage athletes to run on their heels. We made a follow up video with him that address proper foot contact during sprinting ruclips.net/video/dN9sChyubSc/видео.html
wow, thanks for such an informative video !
Thank you so much
Great video, don't know why people are confused. Can you just explain should we 'dorsiflex' our toes as well? I mean, should we do it as hard as we can?
Thanks. You don't want to focus on dorsiflexing the toes or doing it as hard as you can as that can lead to unnecessary tightening of leg muscles. Performing the drills helps to train the nervous system so dorsiflexion becomes second nature and you don't have to focus on it.
@@OutperformOfficial Thank you so much for the response, such a professional channel :)
Exactly same question was from me, thanks sir.
Thank you
Welcome!
Thank you - that's good
Glad you liked it!
Brilliant Video,just one thing,she did not land on the heel,but she had beautiful form.
“We want to land flat footed” goes against like every personal trainer every lol
Good! I was a certified personal trainer and they never taught us sprinting mechanics 🙂
Thank you sir is very useful for me
Good video! I can't believe some of you are misinterpreting the heel strike.... Land flat not on heel not on toes. Think of being a Jedi. Use the force. When deadlifting how often have you seen lifters trying to produce big force with their toes?? None, what about dunking?? None. Flat foot is cue. Not in heel
Heck yeah!
Correct me if I’m wrong but you land flat foot for distance running and run on the balls of your feet for sprinting
Thanks
Welcome
Thank you soo much sir
Most welcome
Thanks athletic coach
He saying don’t be on your toes all the time another thing is with the drills you’re only landing on your ankle for emphasis.
From trying these drills for a while I'd say they do help with encouraging more effective dorsiflexion and proper foot striking... BUT... this drill can cause injury if not done correctly.
Do this drill while wearing shoes with plenty of cushioning.
Do this drill on grass if you can.
Don't slam into your heel into the ground.
I prefer the cue of "point your toes up" when your thigh is parallel to the ground. It works well with a double A skip (bounce twice on the same foot before switching legs) as it gives you more time and awareness to focus on dorsiflexing at the top.
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Good technic
Good video
Thanks
This is good instruction although a bit misleading to the uniformed viewer. It provides good instruction in utilizing dorsi flexion in sprinting, but goes from step A, (literally) to the final product, when there are several more steps of instruction and drills that must be achieved before reaching the final product of the male athlete shown at the end.
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Love your videos. Great job. My question is, at what stages do you use the b-step and A-step during top flight or when an maximum velocity.
Thanks Abdulbasit! The idea is that by performing these drills you train your body to hit these positions so when you are sprinting the movements become automatic.
even if i try to not do it my legs makes me strike flat foot, i tought it wasn't proper form but im glad its not s bad thing
If you naturally strike with a dorsiflexed foot that is a great advantage.
I think by heels I believe he meant middle part of the foot
3:30 'shooting a cannon out of a canoe' the most confused by a statement I've ever been
Nice! Sounds like it will be a good visualization exercise for you.
Nice video however I disagree with the aspect of coaching sprinters to land on the heel. Whilst the foot should be close to a flat footed position on impact with the track, (perhaps making it look like a flat footed landing to many), they should actually land on the ball of their foot with a slight angle so the heel is not touching the track. Through dorsal flexion, this small angle should then be increased to around 90 degrees at the point of take off. This to me appears to be the technique most elite sprinter use.
Thanks Timothy, you are absolutely correct, during sprinting the contact is on the forefoot. These are drills to help develop dorsiflexion.
Finally something that makes sense... I was about to leave a comment but it seems I don't need to anymore...
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@@OutperformOfficial plase clarify that in the pinned comment because i think a lot of people inc me were confused
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Can you please send me some
he isnt teaching to run on heels. he is drilling this to get the runner feeling dorsiflexion
Spot on! You are absolutely correct. Appreciate this comment 👊
ty for this
Running on your heel is great for endurance, but running on your toes is best for sprinting.
Not sure about heel striking when it comes to sprinting but as along distance runner heel striking is a big no no.
Yep same with sprinting, you never land on your heel, in this video coach Karim using it as a cue for the drill, in sprinting you want your foot to be dorsiflexed and land on the balls of your feet.
I run regularly and have a 40yd/4.6
Nice
So are you supposed to make a Z or an L on A-skip drills? I've seen different approaches to the angle your knee should be at. Thanks!
Make a Z
Hi Sir. Please upload More videos about Sprinting techniques and Sprint training and also what are the kits used to sprint trainings .....
You should get Usain Bolt to do the demonstration
Completely agree, as soon as he's ready we'll fly to Jamaica :)
Mid foot is where you’re supposed to land
I’ve seen a looked at most of vids you have on here I am trying to perfect the foot strike, my question is whether it should be the mid foot strike when out from training. I have seen both when watching my running, I feel more bounce when I run midfoot, i am thinking that’s your point in this video just want to be sure. Thanks a ton for these videos I am thinking about becoming a track coach and I feel I need to properly learn it for myself and plus I just love sprinting ❤️
You got it, you want to land mid foot (where the spikes are), in a dorsiflexed position. This takes advantage of the stretch reflex. That is great to hear, need more good track coaches!
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I was planning to do sprint, but sadly, the field I was supposed to do it was small. And that's the only field I can only find. Any tips to run effectively in a short field(Jogging Field I mean)?
Teaching heel landing for sprinters teaches bad habits. Mid foot Dorsi flex or flatter is correct
You got it, definitely don't want to land on the heel when sprinting. I think the pinned comment on this video does the best job of explaining what Coach Karim is trying to say with these drills.
Wait I’m really confused in some of the videos I’ve watched it told me to keep my head up.....
The head should be in line with the body. If the head is too low and the chin is tucked in it will cause the hips to tuck in. You get the reverse problem if the head is too high. Check out the first section of this video for more information on head position ruclips.net/video/6m_fjNhRhkY/видео.html
Does anyone else have the pacer test tomorrow and is searching up how to get stronger and faster?
thank you for this vidio
Welcome!!
Thanks for all the questions and comments about where the foot contacts the ground. We just posted this video to answer them ruclips.net/video/dN9sChyubSc/видео.html
X Pollination Productions thanks for the video!
wHY are we talking about high Gr force in minimal time without mentionning the jerk?
I mean come on if I remember final velocity is Grf * time, so I understand larger impulse(momentum) in minimal time requires highest grf so maaybe sprinting acceleration (tight fitting sspace suit in vacuum stadium) is purely grf in relation to bodymass? wait another question are shorter strides better than longer ones because you use grf more often?
ground momentum magnitude is the same as sprinter momentum but ground kinetic enrgy is still very very close to zero so if we apply conservation of energy (vacuum stadium) that sprinter uses 3 times as much cellular energy to go from 1v to 2v than from 0v to 1v?
thanks for reply?
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watching this with my shin splints kicking in
You got to work your Tibs dude! Just saw a great podcast where Andrew Huberman talks about strengthening the tibialis, check it out, should help with your shin splints ruclips.net/video/hbNpsmOVGt0/видео.html (it starts around the 32 minute mark).
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Yes
Wait are you telling me that we should land on the heel during upright sprinting? Never heard of anything like this. I though landing on heel is going to increase the contact times.
No, you should never land on your heels when sprinting. This is just a way to force and practice dorsiflexed movement so when you do sprint you increase your speed.
Hi Luca, not at all. Of course you should not land on your heel during upright sprinting. The goal of these drills is to train your body to not land on the toe by overemphasizing a flat foot contact and trying to land on the heel. The end result will be a flat foot strike. Through active dorsiflexion, the athlete will create a stretch on the entire posterior chain, which upon ground contact will act as a spring utilizing stored elastic energy via the stretch-shortening cycle.
He says it at the beginning. It is a drill for athletes that like to strike with toes.
Landing on your heel while upright sprinting would be impossible without destroying your knee. Like said before, these are drills to make dorsiflexion a habit. I’ve been teaching this to sprinters and jumpers and it has drastically improved their speed. All thanks to this channel!
You have to land on the balls of your foot
In my opinion, being too dors or plant is not ideal. Striking mid foot “flat footed” is the most ideal placement.
Hey I’ve a question and could you help me? Previous this year I ran the 50meter in 5.78 seconds on a football field. Is this Good compared to real young sprinters around the age of 17?
ok so my question is, can you do these with a walks and b walks?
Absolutely! Taking the arms out of the equation can really help dial in technique.
Should i dorsiflex even if im not running at 100%? Like a 400m?
It's still a sprint
Absolutely, studies have shown that 400m runners that have the closest running from of 100-200m sprinters are the fastest.
@@OutperformOfficial Oh ok thank you, what about 800m and distance runner? You dont have to dorsiflex right?
@@SunOmega I'm not too familiar with level of dorsiflexion for longer events, we did post this video on distance running that might help as the athlete demonstrator is a very good competitive runner ruclips.net/video/NhXSuyklE48/видео.html
This will depend in the type of 400m runner you are as there are several types, your abilities, weakness, physiological and structural make-up as well as your individual energy thresholds. For example, If you are stamina based 400m athlete, where as training and abilities are tempo based, mid to over distance and have the ability to transition to 600 and 800m distances, you are probably more fit to use a plantar flexion technique on the balls of your feet which will allow you to conserve energy and delay lactic onset although you sacrifice some speed.
On the other hand if you are a 400m type with natural 200 meter ability you will likewise want to play to your strength utilizing the dorsi flexion as this type of athlete naturally would because he or she is more power based and so his striking pattern would follow suit. Although he or she has a speed advantage to the former, lactic will accumulate more quickly and there may be a stamina issue in the last part of the race.
Finally, there is a rare type endowed with both abilities and neither weakness.
What is the training goal of the B-Skip and how does it encourage the proper application of force? To my untrained eye, it looks like the B-Skip puts the sprinter's lower leg into the L shape, which is exactly what she tries to avoid in the A-Skip.
Quick question... if one foot dorsi-flexes more than the other foot, will this exercise help correct that imbalance, so they both dorsiflex at equal (ish) angles... if that makes sense?
Thanks
Yes, it should. Make sure to really focus on the foot that needs work during the drill and by overemphasizing the movement with enough reps it should help even things out.