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markk
Posted: 26 January 2004 04:11 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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when i run i dont drive my knees up enough and im not getting a good butt kick instead of my foot coming up and back it goes half way up far back how can this be fixed

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Mike Young
Posted: 26 January 2004 09:29 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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What you're describing isn't really a problem. The best sprinters typically don't actually kick their butt and those that do are doing so passively as a result of rapid upward acceleration of the thigh by the hip flexors rather than actively using the knee flexors.

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Posted: 27 January 2004 09:43 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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So it isn't really bad to have some butt-kicking action going on?  I do so a lot of times without even thinking about it. 

Mike, if your heel does kick your butt, shouldn't it be under the butt, closer to the ham-glute insertion area rather than directly on your butt (gluteus maximus area)?

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