General running drills will usually be seen as an extension of a
stretching regime - in fact many would call them dynamic stretches. A lot of athletes will stretch after having
done a warm up jog and then proceed to do some general
drills, which will further stretch the muscles in a dynamic
fashion. These can be seen as an intermediate step
between static stretching and doing a running session. At Momentum Sports we believe you should miss the
static stretching phase completely and move straight to dynamic stretches.
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Also included in these are some drills designed for general
co-ordination, such as skipping, which involve the athlete
thinking about movement, but aren’t involved directly in
event preparation.
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Mobility and Strength drills can be similar to those above, but are
generally more strenuous and can equally well be perform
prior to a circuits or weights session as before a running
session.
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Here we will treat plyometrics as falling under
this category. It is perfectly reasonable for these
to be a session on their own. They are also important in the improvement
of co-ordination.
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Event specific drills are, by their very nature, designed
to replicate all or part of the action that will be needed
for competing in the desired event. The most obvious
version of these as far as runners would be concerned are
hurdle drills, although, equally these can be performed for
flat runners as well.
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A major part of the performance of this
sort of drill is to educate your motor neuron system into
performing actions that you wish to do with ease.
Technically correct repeated performance of these drills
will enable better technical running within track sessions
and races.
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