Name: Mo Farah Running Technique: Learn to Run Faster
Uploaded: 2020-02-25T09:52:56.000Z
Duration: 9 min 28 s
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- I thought tonight would be a great opportunity

Adverbs of manner

that I've been meaning to make for so long,

which is a running technique analysis of Mo Farah.

something I know that he and his coach, Alberto Salazar

Okay, so let's have a look at this right leg,

as we're coming through to strike the ground,

getting to a point where, as we make initial contact,

So at this point we draw a line straight down

we can see that it's coming down pretty much, in fact

in this case just slightly ahead of the ankle,

Something that we see from so many of the runners,

particularly recreational runners, beginner runners

is that as they come down to strike the ground,

they are far further ahead of themselves,

way out in front of themselves, over striding,

Mo's managing to land underneath the flexing knee,

whether you're running at 11-minute miles

just over four-minute miles, which is what Mo's running

is that as he strikes the ground, being a distance runner,

at managing to strike the ground underneath his hip,

which is so often a cue, which you hear bandied around,

if Mo was a sprinter, if Mo was sprinting,

he'd be getting a lot closer to underneath his hip.

underneath their center of mass, but any distance runner,

just that little bit further ahead of themselves.

A sprinter only has to work 100, 200 meters,

just underneath that flexing knee is ideal.

where the toe just leaves the ground here,

At this point, if there's a simple little rule of thumb,

to see if we're getting a good combination

it's the parallel lines that we're starting to achieve here

and again, I've drawn very rough lines on here,

where because he's created enough hip flexion

on the lead leg, he's created enough knee flexion,

rather than landing excessively ahead of himself.

Okay, so again, for any given pace, we want to get an idea

for whether you're lifting your foot up high enough,

lifting the knee up high enough, it's those parallel lines,

so again, we're on a different stride here, same story,

is again, largely a factor of the pace he's moving at,

he's running two minutes 36 per k, that's super fast,

so very few of us are going to be running at this pace,

so very few of us are going to need to lift our heel

all the way up to our butt in the same manner as Mo is here,

of how high he's lifting his foot up underneath him

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Mo Farah Running Technique: Learn to Run Faster

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