Anyone have ideas on reducing the reaction time off the blocks? Only one of my events at Nationals posted a reaction time, and it looks like I went ahead and finished a cup of coffee before I left. Was I just thinking too much? Or do I need a cattle prod?
I used to do some martial arts training in high school, and one of the things our instructor would tell us was to relax as much as possible when punching, kicking, blocking while performing the movement, and at the last moment "tense up." The idea behind this was that a relaxed muscle and mind would react faster than a tense one. So I would carry this over to my starts. Relax and be ready on the "take your marks" and then "spring" when you hear the horn, see the light, etc. However, I haven't had my reaction time taken so right now this is in theory. In a few meets that I've raced in and had my wife video, my start seems to be at least as fast as anyone else's. Now here's the bouncy thing :bouncing:
I used to do some martial arts training in high school, and one of the things our instructor would tell us was to relax as much as possible when punching, kicking, blocking while performing the movement, and at the last moment "tense up." The idea behind this was that a relaxed muscle and mind would react faster than a tense one. So I would carry this over to my starts. Relax and be ready on the "take your marks" and then "spring" when you hear the horn, see the light, etc. However, I haven't had my reaction time taken so right now this is in theory. In a few meets that I've raced in and had my wife video, my start seems to be at least as fast as anyone else's. Now here's the bouncy thing :bouncing:
