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.