What does Relaxation feel like? |The Foundation of Sprinting |The Great Athlete Tip |
As you'll have heard, relaxation is kind of important for sprinting. The body will always perform in parasympathetic state. Unfortunately sprinters are not taught the importance of relaxation inside and outside their training. This often leads to a stressed out athlete and eventually raised chances of injury. This video talks about the feeling of relaxation and what you are looking for in relaxation. Relaxation can mean different things and different feelings for each person but this video provides you with an indication of what it feels like. Relaxation sets the foundation for the muscle activation method Be-Activated. If you want to get the best out of the training do whether that's strength training or sprint training, you must make sure your body is in the right natural state to put up with the stress of training. To me, relaxation is me in the present moment with no thoughts coming in. Your mind is almost sitting in an armchair in your head. Just sitting there. Now this takes practise and relaxation is important not just inside your sport but outside your sport as well as you need to be in rest and repair state to make the most of the recovery.
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Are you a sprinter? Do you want to be faster? Then this might be of use to you.
Be-Activated is a powerful muscle activation method that almost instantly puts your body into its primed powerful state to perform
Through hard training and the pressures of modern life, the body struggles to recover optimally and chronic stress builds up.
This switches of muscles causing compensation patterns which will lead to muscle tightness, lack of general felxibility and eventually injury.
Be-Activated resets the body into its most powerful state to perform........and its quick. And because of that, so will you. If you're a sprinter, you'll want to be in a powerful state.
You'll be more relaxed
You'll be more powerful because all muscles are working in synergy.
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Well I know you do. There isn't an athlete who won't benefit. But if you need more convincing then go to my website and scroll down and try out my muscle tests.
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As sprinters, we're often focused on the end result (eg timet or a medal). The achievement is all encompassing. Everything about life is focused getting that qualification time or that medal. But by being consumed by the goal, you're missing the point and heaping tension and tightness on your body that will seriously hamper chances of sprinting well. Relaxation is the cornerstone of sprinting.
This is an area that is just ignored in standard sprint training and it actually hampers a sprinters career and disillusionment soon arises. Chronic disillusionment will get the athlete to give up.
If you're not focusing on how you feel RIGHT NOW then you will not be in the flow. If you are not in the flow, you do not have a mindset for success and you are setting yourself up for injury and running slowly.
Being in the flow is the only place where you will be injury free, where you are recovering at your best (because no one knows how to recover) and where you are at your strongest, most energised and most confident.
Although practising your sport can help, training is only part of the story. Most athletes think they only have to train hard and eat well to perform well. This is not the case.
I'm sure you remember being in the flow. When everything you tried came off. When everything was easy. I certainly do. As a 400m athlete, my fastest races were my easiest races. And ease is what you want. They were easy because I was relaxed.
How you feel is crucial to your sports performance and this cannot be over emphasised. It's what I highlight in my Be-Activated treatment. It is however not prioritised in sport regardless of the level of sport and it's also misunderstood.
Most athletes are consumed so much by the end goal that they are not happy and not fulfilled until said goal is achieved. Considering all the other pressures we have in daily life, this unfulfilment leads to stress simply because you are not happy where you are right now and if you are not happy then you are in a stressed state.
If you want to be the best athlete you can be, you must learn to stop focusing on getting the training done and focus on how you you feel while you are doing the training. Incorporating relaxation into your sprinting needs to be a priority.
Feel good and you will perform well. Feel bad and you are highly likely not going to. Train hard on top of feeling bad just makes you weak and gets you injured.
How you feel is crucial to how you train and compete. You must be able to be serene and calm when the pressure hits because its in the parasympathetic relaxed state that your body comes alive. Being and staying in relaxed parasympathetic state should be a major part of your sprint training.
As it is hard for any athlete to integrate relaxation into their training and life, with the Be-Activated technique, I help you bring about this relaxed state easily and effectively. By using techniques so simple and by applying pressure to points on your body, this brings about changes and transformations that you will feel and see inside a 60 minute session.
This will help you do your training in a relaxed state.
You cannot be the best athlete you can be by being stressed, demotivated, energy sapped, unhappy and tired. No matter how much training you do, all areas of fitness and strength will be hampered.
To learn some techniques about getting in the flow and relaxation, click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYN-iseHrHw
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Athletes love to learn about new exercises and new stretches and new techniques that will improve their training and performance. This is all fine but it's not going to make that much of a difference unless you find out what you are doing and htinking that is slowing you down. This is why self growth is so important for great sports performance. Truth is, without finding out about what's hampering you, all those tips and techniques, exercises will be vastly compromised in their usefulness and benefits. This is essentially finding out about yourself and if you don't then your body has no foundation. Your weaknesses will always win because 1. You don't know what they are and 2. you don't know where to look. The question you need to ask yourself is what is keeping me from being relaxed and being in that flow state on the start line? What are the habits that I have picked up that are causing me stress throughout my life and which linger with me and make me tighten up when I run? This invloves a lot of self reflection otherwise your mind and body will always be shut down and running on a survival state instead of a performing state.
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Why is sprinting technique ALWAYS compromised when you're tight? Athletes are unaware of this but the foundation of your natural sprinting technique is you in a relaxed state because that is where your body moves in its natural high performing way.
However, we do not prioritise this in sport and the result is sub par performance. Athletes don't even realise they are tight until they notice it in the race or just after when they've consulted their coach. Athletes will know when they run tight because it just doesn't feel good to sprint. it feels disconnected and each stride is an effort.
Any changes you make to sprinting technique on the physical level (arm placement and knee height) will always be compromised if you do not correct how you are feeling and what you are focusing on.
What isn't prioritised is that what you do and feel and think outside of your sprinting training and competing dicates your level of relaxation (or tightness) inside the training session. So you need to find what triggers tightness in your day to day life.
A good place to start is mobile phone activity. Devices such as these are known to raising stress levels. The time we are on devices nowadays make this a chronic stress meanign that underlying tension will always effect your relaxed state for sprinting. Limting mobile use an hour before warming up and concentrating on your breathing as well as simply feeling your body (being here now) can negate the effects of the mobile devices
Other places to look is your hydration levels. Aiming fo r 39ml per kgof your bodyweight in water consumption is a high number but can also lower stress levels.
Other places to look is the food you eat. What makes you feel good and what doesn't. A food diary is crucial for this.
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You're probably thinking why is #breathing important to running faster? Well breathing, along with moving, is the foundation of human existence. The problem is society often ignores it and we assume because we breathe 24/7 that we do it correctly. This is far from the truth.
In my Be-Activated treatment, the very first activation I do is focused on the diapraghm and the breathing habits of the sprinter or athlete. This is because the breathing sets the foundation for all the other activations. The results of all the acotvations depend on this base. And therefore your sprinting career depends on it because the truth is, as Doug Heel says, the body wants to do 2 things. To breathe and to move and if it can't do either, then you die.
So getting the breathing correct is paramount. This video explains the correct breathing techniques. These are breathing techniques are to prepare the body for optimal sprinting.
Why is breathing important for sprinters?
1. It's important for glute strength and power. Breathing correctly activates the diaphragm to push down. This engages the psoas muscle (hip flexor muscle) which is a kind of messenger to the hips to start working. To not breathe correctly is well neglecting the hips and expecially your glutes. The place where all your power comes from.
2. Correct breathing technique will relax any sprinter. Relaxation is the cornerstone of sprinting. If you're relaxed then you'll sprint faster - period. Anxiety and tension is the enemy of sprinting.
3. Breathing improves posture. If you get the hips working properly then this has a chain reaction up and down the body. Good posture improves running mechanics and makes you more efficient which will improve endurance.
4 Breathing will redice injury rate. Phsycological stress has been linked to greater injury rate (Nippert et al, 2008). Breathing correctly reduces stress.
We often ignore things that are too simple (and too boring) but this is a vital part of health and performance that we neglect. Watch the video and don't neglect this. this is the probably the easiest thing you can do to improve your sprinting exponentially.
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For #400m #athletes, #endurance is crucial to lasting the race. But endurance isn't all about training hard and getting fitter. Endurance is all about energy conservation as well. The ability to use up as little energy as possible per stride so you have enough in the home straight. So we train on the track to practise the movement and once we practise it enough, we teach our bodies to use energy efficiently.
However one thing that will suck energy out of you is parasitic tension. This is a constant underlying tension in the body built up through habit. But this kind of tension is not beneficial in 400m running. It does nothing but exhaust the body and contributes nothing to your running stride.
In runners, parasitic tension is tension in the shoulders and jaw. Even the elite world class athletes are guilty of it to an alarming degree. All the energy used up by jaw and shoulder tesnion is taking energy and oxygen away from the running stride. You have a limited amout of energy for your race. You need it to be used for what you are doing, namely running.
Also parasitic tension could be an indication of compensation patterns in your body. This means muscles overuse to take up the flak of muscles that are not doing their job. In this case, if you have tension in your shoulders and jaw then these could be compensating for your inactive hip muscles such as glutes and hip flexors. So much so that you're shopulders and jaw need to be tight to get the hips to move. This is how compensation works in the human body and this not only ruins performance but will lead to injury.
The best way to relieve parasitic tension is to relax. Relaxation brings order to your body and brings unity. You bring about relaxation by feeling your body and breathing. And you must practise this before each rep in training. This is the base that you need to practise. And with this practise you will be able to relax more while running or sprinting. In 100m or 400m and you'll find yourself overtaking athletes in the home straight.
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Tightening up is so common in #sprinting. The need to put in every single bit of effort has been drilled into every athlete and every sprinter and this mindset ruins careers. In this video, I talk about the risk of relaxation because that is what it is - a risk. It's a risk because it goes against the grain of what we #athletes are taught. It's a risk because there is a chance of not putting in enough effort and losing. But the thing is no world record or outstanding performance was ever achieved by putting in every ounce of effort even in the endurance events. This is because trying hard hard goes totally agianst the grain of the way your body wants to sprint. Trying hard gets in the way of outstanding sprinting performance.
All the great 100m , 200m , #400m performances had relaxation at their core and had the flow state at its core. They accidentally or intentionally had their mind and body connected for that performance. Your fastest times were achieved by a level of relaxation.
But it's uncomfortable for athletes like you to relax. It's outside your comfort zone. But you must get outside your comfort zone to sprint to your potential - to sprint to a level that shocks you. You must not allow your mimd to force you into trying too hard. It will try to say "if you don't try hard, you ll be slow - relaxation means slow times".
Connect and feel your body, observe your breathing. This is you tapping into your potential
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Any committed athlete has the drive to improve their times. But did you know you might be unintentionally sprinting with the "handbrake on"? What do I mean? Well, have you found yourself training really hard in the last season and yet you're not running any faster? Well, if so, you wouldn't be the only sprinter with this problem. The thing is lack of progress ruins an athlete's morale and motivation and a lot of athletes give up. And they give up because they try their hardest in training and racing thinking that will bring them success and when it doesn't bring them success which is quite often, they feel lost. Why do these athletes fail to get quicker and achieve their goals. Well apart from the fact they gave up (which you can't do if you want success), they were sold a lie. 1. They thought working hard was enough and 2. They thought training was enough. The thing is sprint training is not all about getting the hunk of meat called your body fit and strong. It's also about releasing those things that are holding back your speed. One major thing is how you think and how you feel throughout the day will dictate your physical speed and strength in training and racing. Teh thing is society gets us to think and stress in a certain way and chronic stress inhabits the body, this causes compensation. Compensation is the one thing that is holding back your speed, hampering your training gains and increasing your chances of injury. If you're a sprinter, relieving compensation must be high on your priority list.
This video goes over
- What compensation is
- How it manfiests itself in your body
- How compensation compromises relaxed sprinting
- What to do about it.
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