[Carl Valle]

Carl Valle on December 24, 2010 at 4:22 am #17240

With nearly every facility having their athletes looking like Flamingos activating their hip flexors, are we actually treating the root problem? I was reading my notes from the Montreal sports medicine seminar and some of the findings of Dr. Marchese and Dr. Morgan with a few summer and winter olympic athletes and it confirmed my suspicions. We are isolating the wrong positions in the wrong way, a

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[Rich Tolman(mr-glove)]

Rich Tolman(mr-glove) on December 24, 2010 at 11:03 am #104279

Good post, Carl. It reminded me of a video on youtube:

I don’t speak Japanese but, starting at the 3:00 mark, it seems that the researchers are impressed with Asafa’s psoas. What color band do you think he uses? Maybe Jamaican colored!

There seems to be a belief that doing accelerations for 10-20 yards/meters is all that is required. Are there any muscular adaptations that these coaches are missing out on by not doing a greater volume of sprints with a more vertical posture?