An Inside Look At Sprinting Mechanics

The Wheel Rolls On: Front Side vs Back Side

The best way to look at sprinting is your legs churning underneath you, like a biomechanical wheel. Each leg churns in synchronicity with the other, with one flexing as the other extends, a type of scissoring action that eats up the ground. When one leg is forward, the other is back, these equal and opposite contractions driving you forward.

Sprinting is usually divided up into front side and back side mechanics, in relation to the hips. Backside mechanics cannot be…