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How To Set Up Your Blocks | How To Sprint Faster

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Cody Bidlow explains how to calculate and optimize starting block settings based on individual leg length.

This video will show you how to get the best block start settings, as well as give you tips so that you can analyze your technique and improve to have the fastest block starts in your 100 meter dash race. If you want to be the best sprinter that you can, this video is for you. Get A Program: sprintingworkouts.com Become a Member: youtube.com/c/ATHLETEXOFFICIAL/membership Follow on Instagram: instagram.com/athlete.x Interact on Reddit: reddit.com/r/athletex Follow On TikTok: tiktok.com/@codybidlow - Introduction - Why use leg length rather than foot length for block settings? - What makes for a good block start position? - Measuring leg length. - Calculating your block pedal spacings. - Setting up your blocks with the new spacings. - Testing the new block start settings. - Measuring without a tape measure. - Comparing to old block start settings. - Tips for improving your block starts. - Things to look for when analyzing your own technique. - Arms in the block start. - Rhythm in acceleration sprinting. #blockstarts #sprinting

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What commenters say. Highly recommended as the best guide for setting up starting blocks using leg length to achieve optimal angles.

@Milmoney43in r/Sprinting • Recommends

On “It kind of of looks worse, maybe its the camera angle?”

[video Watch this vid on how to setup blocks using your leg length its the most optimal way to set them up in order for your body to be in all the right positions in my opinion
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@toomcootonwodin r/Sprinting • Recommends

On “Block positioning”

Usually 2 steps from the line to the first one and 3 for the second one, but play around with it from there to see where it goes. Here's a video by Cody bidlow that gives better advice: link to this video
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@fullmetal_pikachuin r/Sprinting • Recommends

On “Block start advice/criticism?”

…y stayed in my drive phase longer and didn’t side step a bit. Everything was forward and powerful. The next step was getting this into my actual block set up. This was the tricky part. I messed around a bunch and even called my AAU coach for help, but not much luck. So I searched around online and shout out to Cody Bidlow, aka AthleteX, for this link to this video Basically instead of foot length, the block settings were measured on leg length. Following this set up, my block starts felt efficient, quick, and powerful. I modified it a bit because I’d still find myself a little bunched up which led to incoordination and loss of power. However, everything just clicked after that. Tested it during comp…
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@kavehkavehin r/trackandfield • Recommends

On “what can i improve on block start and form wise”

[video this video uses the length of your legs to calculate your block setup so it will help u but then again you might have to tweak it if its not comfortable or you don't have the right angles in the set position
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