Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Forward-Upward Training?

Perhaps results from our sprinting analysis could result in coaches training athlete's performance in certain planes and on left or right feet to correct imbalances.

The following graph shows forward force production on each step;

Clearly, this athlete is generating more forward force with his left foot than his right foot.

This discrepancy is not true when viewing this athlete's vertical force production on each step;
Does this mean that this athlete should train his left foot in the horizontal direction? Maybe, but maybe that will mess up other factors of the left-right forward-upward force production generation. Trainers have not had access to this type of information before, these questions are being addressed for the first time ever.

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