“A compensation pattern is literally the idea that one muscle is doing the work of another muscle…we’re built to move, so our body has quite cleverly set up all kinds of different ways we can go into hip flexion or hip extension in case the first muscle isn’t working.”
It’s one thing to know how to design a speed training session, select the appropriate exercises, and demonstrate those movements…it’s another to understand the biomechanics of sprinting and assess the complex interactions of muscles, joints, and tendons involved in human movement.
TFC Coach Chris Korfist joins Coach Justin Ochoa for Episode 2 of SimpliFaster’s new interview series Rapid Fire to discuss compensation patterns and Reflexive Performance Reset (RPR), his four “rockers” programs for athlete’s foot, and the intake process for young and advanced athletes who want to gain speed.
“That’s why you see people run with tight fists or their chin sticking out, they’re doing all these different things because they’ve found a pattern where they can lock down and move their limbs in the best way they know possible at the time,” Korfist says. “So when you tell that kid to open their hands and run, you might be taking away a recruitment pattern that they find stability with…because really, the first goal is stability.”
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Rapid Fire, Episode 2. Watch the full episode with Coach Chris Korfist and Coach Justin Ochoa.
In a fast-paced and informal conversation that includes surprising lights-out moments, Coach Korfist begins by focusing on the fact that humans are hard-wired to move, then delves into the question of how this movement actually happens. And then how to make this movement happen faster .
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Excerpted from Rapid Fire. Coach Korfist describes his admissions process for both young athletes and high-level training athletes.
“When your leg hits the ground, it is the tip of a fulcrum and you’ve got to find a way to move your mass over that thing stuck in the ground,” Korfist says. “Because if you can’t move your weight forward, you’re not going anywhere.”
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