#Flowstate #sprinting is basically sprinting in your element. You feel you are totally in the right place at the right time and are in tune with the environment you are in. It's basically confidence in it's purest sense. So there are different ways of bringing this into your 100m or 400m race. We all have different skills and they may not be related to sprinting or athletics in general but they can still be useful to you for your sprinting and 400m. Well it's not necessarily the actual skills but your relationship with those skills. Because when you are good at something, whether that is playing the guitar or even drawing (in my case), you have a certain confidence that you can, or will, achieve what you want. And if you can recognise that feeling then you can replicate that in your sprinting and 400m. This is not just for the start of the 100m or 400m. If you practise this in your training then you can get more out of your training too. A couple of my athletes are using this and are running faster than ever before. They get the feel good elements of replicating the feeling of that skill, you #feelconfident and feeling confident leads to feeling good which gives you the strength, speed and endurance you need to run faster. I can recognise this in my own experience of feeling good in my 400m and 200m races. I just felt I didn't get tired. i didn't feel the lactic or the fatigue in any way. I do not thinking this is a perfect way but it is a step closer to flow state sprinting. Flow state sprinting is being totally disconnected to the result you want from the race. Ie On the start line, you don't need the result you want. It's the need to perform that slows you down. However replicating that feeling in other parts of your life where you are confident can be a great stepping stone. Please follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/injuryfreeandfaster/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/relaxedsprinting Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/activatemindandbody/ and now TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@sprintingrelaxed To book a 1-1 muscle activation session with me, please go to my website www.relievepaintaunton.co.uk/Be-Activated If you found that the info in this video or any of my other videos have been valuable to you in your sprinting or 400m and you feel it's worth a donation to this channel then you can donate in the link below. This is very much appreciated. Thank you for your support regardless. https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=W2VDSWSLZ43WS ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzMWsU6cvSI

My thoughts on the #100m heats earlier this morning. #tokyo2020 Some quick times run but easy when you know you re the fastest in the race. who's going going to handle the pressure in the next round? ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvjogJXujS0

These terms seem to contradict eachother but actually they can co-exist in sport and especially sprinting. What we mean by aggression is not violence or anger. Another definition of aggression in the dictionary is "forcefulness". And that is what sprinters do when theysprint. We are generating force. When we have relaxation, we generate that force in where we want to go. When a sprinter or 400m runner is relaxed, he/she is confident and has a singular purpose. That singular purpose of winning or running a personal best is what gives you that aggression. You're giving your body no doubt of what you want from it. With that, it knows what to focus the effort on. Please follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/injuryfreeandfaster/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/relaxedsprinting Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/activatemindandbody/ and now TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@sprintingrelaxed To book a 1-1 muscle activation session with me, please go to my website www.relievepaintaunton.co.uk/Be-Activated If you found that the info in this video or any of my other videos have been valuable to you in your sprinting or 400m and you feel it's worth a donation to this channel then you can donate in the link below. This is very much appreciated. Thank you for your support regardless. https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=W2VDSWSLZ43WS ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pIWTitKOq8

patience for sprinters and 400m athletes is a topic that is not talked about in sport. Actually, impatience is often seen as a virtue - as something you must have to be successful. In making changes to your life, then maybe impatience is good as there is no time like the here and now to make that change. Sporadically, maybe it's good but in day to day life and your day to day training as a sprinter, lack of patience is not helpful and in so many ways will hamper your athletic goals. I can clarify that my lack of patience in myself hurt me when I was training as a 400m athlete. It lead to negative thinking and in wanting that fast time so much and in hindsight, I realised that I was not relaxed when I was running. I was putting pressure on myself. I constantly see the highest elite athletes losing their temper, whether it be with an official or mostly with themselves. Just because they are elite athletes does not make it right to do this. And it won't help you either. You can't be relaxed if you lack patience or lose your temper as an athlete or sprinter. When you want something so much, this will lead to impatience which will lead to tension and stress. This will slow you down and lead to injury. Additionally, when you are a young sprinter coming into the sport fresh. new and inspired, you have a drive to run fast, but run fast right NOW. You want to see evidence of you making progress each and every training session. This is so common in the youth especially in these times of instant gratification.This is not sustainable. You will not see progress every training session. You training will ebb and flow and challenges will come to test you. You must have patience in yourself to navigate these challenges. You must be able to filter out the postives of that training session or race and if you can't find any, then you need to practise notice the negativity that you are harbouring.That negativity can be destructive and lead you to heightened stress levels and tension which, as we've established on this channel, will slow you down. So how do you stay patient? It starts with noticing these negative thoughts as they arise that means you need to be able to disconnect from them. Meditation is the start. Not only will it tarin you to use the present moment but it will help you to notice the thoughts that come in. It will help you to filter out those negative thoughts and this will limit their destructive nature on your body. Your body will always follow your thoughts. Breathing is something that I talk about a lot as well and that is simple way to bring patience. It will allow you to drop into a relaxed state and that relaxed state, you are patient. Here is an extensive video on how to breathe properly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRu7wTbEPxM If y ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-znSFnvNbo