Well, these days I've been doing pre-season training, with plyo, drills, some 10x200 and so -no spikes, btw-.
I noticed that my start is the best of the group, as I can get a gap of some tenths of seconds in the first metres, I maintain it at the first 20 meters and hit my top speed around the 35th meter (>9m/s), I can hardly keep it 'til the 45th-50th meter and then, I start lowering my knees, my arms do not coordinate, and I finish the race with my heels and in a jogging rhythm (
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Well, these days I've been doing pre-season training, with plyo, drills, some 10x200 and so -no spikes, btw-.
I noticed that my start is the best of the group, as I can get a gap of some tenths of seconds in the first metres, I maintain it at the first 20 meters and hit my top speed around the 35th meter (>9m/s), I can hardly keep it 'til the 45th-50th meter and then, I start lowering my knees, my arms do not coordinate, and I finish the race with my heels and in a jogging rhythm (
I know there's a technique problem and I think it is a result of trying to make my stride longer and putting my center of gravity and force way too forward. I asked my coach, and he told me the best way to know your best stride is to put your arms in jar, starting doing straight leg bound so you accelerate and start using your tiptoes and bending a bit more your knee and then, when you've achieved your top speed with no arms and starting with straight leg bound, you start using your arms and that is your posture.
That's so frustrating because it's the first time I could have beaten the 12'' barrier this year in pre-season, but I felt like I managed to improve a lot my speed doing these exercises, I lasted 'til the 60th meter and I felt way better, but, again, at the 60th meter, I started putting my center of force way too forward, doing a lot of strides, and shortening them because I tried to do longer steps as I was seeing my speed was decreasing and I went into a chaos.
My questions for you are: how do you know which is your best way to make the stride? Do you have any good exercise to improve that? Is it better to make longer your stride or to land your leg forward and stiff like the coach said? Do you find my problem of technique is trying to push constantly the floor? Do you have any tip / video / experience of yours, that can help me? It is really hard for me, as I'm in my lower body's best shape and power in years and I'm in the best % of body grass and muscle mass, but now I've to put an extra effort in the technique not knowing how. Thanks in advance.