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Wall Sprints

Nick Brattain

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Nick Brattain demonstrates and explains a wall sprint progression drill to help athletes improve their acceleration posture and leg drive.

This video goes through a detailed description of my Wall Sprint Progression for athletes that I outlined in my blog post "An Acceleration Progression: Wall Sprints" at Brattainsportsperformance.com/blog/

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What commenters say. Commenters recommend this drill for teaching proper body angles, posture, and foot placement during the acceleration phase.

@mgurney3in r/Sprinting • Recommends

On “Critique my start”

Your takeoff angle is less important than having postural integrity during your start. (Neutral neck and spine, triple extension, tight trunk/core) Your force production directly affects your optimal angle upon block clearance. So when someone says “you’re too high or too low” that’s not always necessarily true. Sometimes trying to stay lower will cause you to ‘catch yourself’ on your next step, where as staying to high will result in sub maximal velocities. So just keep practicing proper form on starts and don’t worry too much about the angle. Little by little you’ll be able to stay lower while pushing properly resulting in faster times. Hill runs, wall drills, resisted runs, are all grea…
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@ManmadeTomcatin r/Sprinting • Recommends

On “Form critique”

Your second step looks quite short - as if you're only trying to take a long first step, especially since your foot is landing quite far in front of your hip when it should be landing behind. [video Look at drills like the one in the above lift, it will help with your angle in the drive phase and where your foot should be hitting the ground.
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@btecbiologistin r/Sprinting • Recommends

On “Start Critique”

Alternatively, learn up against a wall and lean forwards until you are in a properly 45 degree start angle. Then perform a few leg switches. Here is an example for your convenience: [video
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@Important_Fox2307in r/trackandfield • Recommends

On “Critique my start please”

Ok so first of all the start look pretty decent, i can see that breaking at the waist at the start maybe because your intention is to stay low to the ground,your body need to from a "line" from head to toes, next you can't really see it properly when you don't slow down the video but your foot is going to far like your kicking a ball and that make you place your foot in front of you and that act like a break, try to focus on control that foot swings by putting it in your drills/warmup an easy exercise : link to this video don't take it to letter that not the best video but so that you can understand :)
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@flipswhitfudgein r/Sprinting • Recommends

On “blocks finally arrived help with start plz and a few questions”

link to this video This drill might help. And also it might help to think of it as a forward lean instead of staying low. It shouldn't be a conscious effort, you're just applying force to the ground from a well extended leg/hip.
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@mgurney3in r/Sprinting • Recommends

On “Drive phase”

- Falling starts (as previously mentioned) - hill starts (as previously mentioned) - resisted running (parachute, partner resistance, sleds) - wall drills (see video) Wall Drills Keep falling starts and hill runs 10-40m. You don’t need to run further than that. Resisted runs can be slightly further if needed, maybe out to 50m. Do not add so much resistance that you slow down more than maybe 10%. Any reduction in speed more than that will negatively impact your mechanics. A big factor in your angle at block clearance is based on how much force you can produce. So if you are drilling the above things, and you get a little lower while still hitting proper angles but you still don’t feel li…
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@Small-Moose1in r/Sprinting • Mentions

Wall drills Hey everyone! I'm getting back to sprinting after a \~1.5-month break, and as part of my warm-up I do wall drills (here's what it looks like) And my problem is that when I do 1 or 2, it's pretty good, I put a lot of force into every step (I can both hear and feel it very well). But when I start doing more than that, 3,4, and further, after the first couple of steps I can't put out nearly as much force, and it almost like I'm tiptoeing (I'm not sure how to explain it, but I put in significantly less force). I'm pretty sure I also bend my knees more, which may also be a cause Do you have any advice on how to fix it? Maybe some other drills I can do to strengthen the muscles…
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@Small-Moose1in r/trackandfield • Mentions

Wall drills Hey everyone! I'm getting back to sprinting after a \~1.5-month break, and as part of my warm-up I do wall drills (here's what it looks like) And my problem is that when I do 1 or 2, it's pretty good, I put a lot of force into every step (I can both hear and feel it very well). But when I start doing more than that, 3,4, and further, after the first couple of steps I can't put out nearly as much force, and it almost like I'm tiptoeing (I'm not sure how to explain it, but I put in significantly less force). I'm pretty sure I also bend my knees more, which may also be a cause Do you have any advice on how to fix it? Maybe some other drills I can do to strengthen the muscle…
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@trackfan92in r/trackandfield • Mentions

On “Middle School Track and Field: Coaching Advice”

link to this video link to this video link to this video I will have the kids do drills like these, along a fence. I don't usually have them with as much lean as the first video, because its difficult on a fence, but these should give you a decent idea. You can have them all doing it at once, and walk around and correct any errors.
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@Harpoon007in r/Sprinting • Mentions

On “Form critique?”

Toe Drag .Looks like you are cycling way too early. Wall drills will help.
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