Sprinters No Blocks No Glory

As a second call is made for your race, its finally time to show what you have. From training hard, practicing everyday you want to prove your great abilities. Then your heart drops,the official on the intercom says... FINAL CALL for the 200 meter dash finals. As a sprinter you already know what that means. Its time to fight for the gold medal! The setting of this event as you all should know is extremely nerve wrecking. You have so many different teams and people screaming and cheering everyone on. But as a sprinter running the 200meter dash, you just don't get on the track and expect to win with just running spikes. You need your handy dandy BLOCKS to have a wonderful start! We all seem to have this deep in our mind being a sprinter...no blocks no glory.

We all know you can't just decide, hey I'm going to do blocks this isn't as easy as the top world rank sprinters makes it look. But, in order to understand how to do the block starts, you know you need to know exactly how to run the 200meter dash race first. Now as current or past runners you all know that the start of the race is what makes the race. Form and your steps are very important. With the 200meter race there is a specific technique that will help you dominate this race. Although many thing that 200meters is really quick and fast. Anything can happen between those seconds at the end of it. That's why you have to apply the 200meter start technique.

 

Let's start off with the block starts. You should know that spikes are required for this. ALWAYS remember that! Place your leading foot further back, the other you count two steps from the starting line. HINT... that's the little line that your hands and body must stay behind at the beginning of the race. After that you get great form and pop up when you hear the gun shot. But, you MUST push off the blocks as hard and fast as possible. That's what the block is for! So we all should use it as 200meter runners. As we all know that's the hardest part because, if you have a beautiful start (using the blocks) everything falls into play. Us all as runners know that that's exactly what we want.

After that the race is finally on, you need posture and most of all formation. With these two you all know that the gold medal is within your arm reach. You just have to run with the knowledge and quickness of your best abilities. Keeping a positive mindset also helps as well. The positive you are the better your goal becoming reality. Elbows in, arms above your hips moving in a normal rotation but, mostly knees up. The first 50meters you use the blocks to get out. Then the next, 50meters you pump your arms but not using as much leg movement as the way you did with the block start of the race. The last 100 meters your coming off  of that curve you use everything you have. Arms, legs, breathing in and out of your nose and fight! That's exactly how you run a 200meter dash! This is your technique that you should use and you will be the best you can. Just keep trying...There is still more to come.

Track and Field Basic Facts

Runners take your mark...set GO!Crack (the gun goes off). Blood rushing through your veins,heart pumping at a high rate, breathing getting harder and shorter. Your ready to take off and prove your athletic skills! You SHOULD already know,this is one of the most common scenes any Track and Field athlete encounters right before they compete. All of these different events such as, running, jumping, and throwing have their challenges. You know and understand that it takes the toughest and most devoted athletic person to become ranked number one in the world. So you want a quick fast reaction. Many countries are represented in Track and Field, that's the upper hand on this sport. Its not only diverse as events, its categorized as of different schools, countries, cities, states all over the world. As you all know and probably realize from personal experience, understanding the basics of Track and Field are a bit complicated. Until you get the hang of exactly how it works. That process seems to take forever at times.

This sport has a lot of history but, mostly tradition. Going back into the 1900's the distance of the track was measured in yards. In our time now we considered this event to be called the 200meter dash. Back then it was called, the 200 yard dash. Which made a huge difference. Another event tittle was renamed. In which we all as athletes call the 400 meter dash. Over the time this event was considered to be a middle distance race. Anybody who has run this race knows it takes so much hard work and preparation.

Everyone knows that this event is the most competitive event in Track and Field. The reason being, is that many people have distance but just need speed or even vice versa.This is why Track and Field is such a competitive sport. So not only is this amazing sport a physical type, its also mental and pretty much social. Now your going to imagine yourself taking so much energy out of your own body, just to make it to the finish line before your opponent. Running and sweating telling yourself "I can do it I want that gold medal".Can you PUSH yourself? Can you put your all on the track? The main question I ask you today is... are you up for that COMPETITIVE challenge? You need stragtegies for these type of questions. That's why Im going to help you! From block starts all the way to techniques on foot placement. Now its time to place your feet in these shoes and ... RUN!