Nico Young Running Form Modifications

I used the modifications last night on a run. Felt faster, more efficient, quicker cadence. Lightly re-inflamed my achilles.

Your running form and mechanics are a result of your body’s proportions, strengths and weaknesses.

As he gets stronger he will be more efficient. That why high school kids run all floppy. You can’t change form without getting stronger and more balanced first.

Go look at Galen in high school and Galen as a pro, way stronger, way better form

It’s completely unproven that a change in form triggered Young’s break through. I’ve never heard that claim before for other elite runners, and if true, why didn’t he or Brosnan, make the adjustment years ago? Does everyone else have perfect form, or could Smith work his magic with other elite athletes?

I don't think Smith was saying that the form changes equate to the big performances, rather that this was one of several factors. That said, I think the implication of the Q and A with Letsrun is that Smith feels that there were intentional technique changes that have helped Nico be faster, not simply that an evolution of his stride, related to increased strength and stability, improved his running.

Nico had a pretty significant growth spurt when he went to NAU. with his bones growing and his cadence altered his running form had to be adjusted and readjusted many times.

Maybe Brosnan didn't know how to change his form. Brosnan was a high school coach with a grand total of zero years of coaching experience when Nico was a freshman. This is the kind of difference you see with the best coaches in the NCAA like Smith vs coaches with very little experience like Brosnan.

Again, why didn’t he make the adjustments when Young first came to NAU and why hasn’t he claimed he did the same thing for other NAU runners?

It takes time to make adjustments. You don't just tell someone to run differently, but you have to queue, reinforce with drills, etc. Maybe others on the team didn't need the same adjustments. That's what excellent coaching looks like. Identifying areas where individual runners can improve and making those improvements over time.

Mike Smith let Nico grow into his body. He does noting with his athletes or Nico to help them with form and such.

He literally speaks about the complicated work that has been done to help Nico with his mechanics in his Letsrun interview.

It’s not possible that he’s tooting his own horn? It looks again like Young might be a generational talent and he deserves the credit.

Hahaha Galen??? You kidding me that obvious doper come on man........he got his form off of drugs, period!

You guys are blabbering. He is taking one from the sprinters playbook and lets stop at that....

I'm not a big fan of Nico's form either. It's still better than some Nuguse who is far worse for my eyes!!! Just doesn't make any sense the way Nuguse moves. Nico is much better but even then it isn't what you would associate with GOAT running mechanics such as Hicham EL G, Kenenisa, Paul Tergat, Haile Geb, Daniel Komen.

Being a GOAT is not just about fast times and WRs, it's the absolute SUPERCONDUCTING EAST of movement first to the casual observer's eyes then next to the trained eye of an analyst like me Khamis!!!!! The symmetry of motion in space and time, the inviolable frequency and rhythm as well or stability and immovability to all external effects like change of weather, change of environmental location, change of racing/training venue, change of anything is what it is all about!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Haile Geb and Hicham EL G were such geniuses in this area of mechanics because their biology were first unradiated and untouched by the corrupt forces of anthropogenic EMFs. And remember they also had terrible shoes and track surfaces!!

I watched that interview off the back of this thread.

Mike Smith seems like a mad scientist, i'd imagine his guys would run through a wall for him

Mike Smith is so not a science guy at all. That couldn’t be further from the truth. NAU has good culture and has altitude. Don’t get me wrong Mike is a good coach, but not a mad scientist at all.

Training is completely PSYCHOLOGICAL OR PSYCHOGENIC-ORIGIN!!!!! Meaning PLACEBO!!!!!!!

The only thing that's truly physical is E-N-V-I-R-O-N-M-E-N-T!!!!!!!!

Thus PHYSICAL TRAINING IS A MISNOMER!!!!!!!!!! There is no physical, if at all, in physical training, it's all PLACEBO, MEANING MENTAL/PSYCHOLOGY.

Only the phrase environmental training makes sense because environmental=physical!!!!

It's the surrounding energetic (physical) environment like oxygen, sunlight, temperature, pressure, food, chlorophyll, EMFs that trains up the body not the training at all, if at all.

Sounds like rocket science??? Well heck yeah because it is profound!!!!!

You have apply a lot of force to the ground to bounce off to a bigger stride. It's easier to do this when you're young. When you get old, your lower legs won't be able to handle the stress. This is why foot strength is very important.