Sean CooneyOwner, RESPORT Chiropractic & Physical Therapy · Owner at RESPORT Chiropractic & Physical Therapy

Improve Coordination and Soft Landings with Pull-Pull Pose Drill #RunningDrills #AnkleStrength

28 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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A warm-up drill called Pull-Pull-Pose teaches runners to land softly by pulling the heel up, staying light through the ankles and knees, and sticking each landing. It's especially useful for runners who land heavy or hold tension in their ankles.

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One of the tougher drills we'll do that requires a little bit of coordination, but still incorporates a lot of the concepts that we're trying to build on here, is the pull-pull-pose. So we're going to focus on just getting into that heel-pull positioning, again nice and soft through the ankles, knees, and hips, okay? But we're going to work on sticking our landing. So we're going to go pull-pull-pose, pull-pull-pose, pull-pull-pose, pull-pull-pose, pull-pull-pose. Alright. As you see, as you go through the reps, pull-pull-pose, we're going to alternate And just focus on sticking that landing and being nice and soft through the foot. This is a great drill to use if we tend to be really heavy and really holding tension through the ankle as we're running. Okay, so great warm-up exercise for that.