Olympic sprinters may have won the genetic lottery, but that does not mean that the rest of us cannot learn to run faster.
Olympic sprinters have won the genetic lottery, but that does not mean that the rest of us cannot learn to run faster.
"The thing about sprints is, you've got your own lane," says Eilidh Doyle, who specialised in the 400m sprint and hurdles, and won bronze for Great Britain in the 4 x 400m relay at the Rio 2016 Olympics. "It's not like the 1500m where people's tactics can directly influence you. You pretty much stand at the start lane and say, 'I know what the plan is, and I'm going to execute that plan, because nobody else can mess with that'.
Sprint performance is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. But genetics may play a larger role in step frequency because it is related to"The most important thing that we found is that children don't have the 'pawing' action," says Panoutsakopoulos. "Young sprinters just place the foot."Panoutsakopoulos likens the correct action to pawing the ground like a horse, with flexion in the foot, rather than flatfooted like a duck.
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