Episode 11: How To Find your Perfect Running Mechanics w/ Tracy Peal
This week, Dr. Mike Quintans is chatting with elite performance coach, speed coach, movement specialist, and running guru, Tracy Peal. He works in individual and group athletics by analyzing sports biomechanics.
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04:08 - Tracy Peal is a Philadelphia native and played football, baseball, and basketball as a kid, although he gravitated more toward basketball. He got recruited by Penn State from Salesianum High School where he got All-State. After a couple years, he went to University of Delaware to finish his sport and education.
05:30 - After graduation, he started running half-marathons and getting into powerlifting.
06:22 - Tracy Peal also has a love for food and cooking.
09:00 - One of the biggest tools Tracy uses is his iPhone camera. He records a runner’s gate and breaks it down on video.
10:00 - Tracy likes to go to the athlete’s home turf. It’s easier to understand an athlete’s issue on their turf or track than in the clinic.
13:00 - Tracy Peal studied the Pose Method in early 2000s. Dr. Nicholas Romanov, Ph.D. taught him everything he knows with running mechanics.
21:21 - The Pose Method is a general movement theory based on the idea that we are in a gravitational field. Movement is all two things. Gravity is body weight, body weight is potential energy. Free falling is the kinetic energy. There’s an up and down from potential energy to kinetic energy and back. Your job is to un-weigh yourself from the ground. If you weigh yourself quickly, then you can get yourself into the next post for the body to fall again.
24:00 - The quicker the body catches up to your foot, the less chance of injury.
27:20 - If you’re a heel striker, it means your hips are too far behind what’s landing. It’s taking too much time for your body to catch up.
29:30 - Take Usain Bolt. People think he has such a long stride but, in reality, his foot is landing below himself the whole time. Posturally, it’s perfect.
30:40 - Mike and Tracy talk about running cadence.
33:00 - Tracy explains how he starts when working with a new client.
48:00 - Tracy sees many more athletes than just runners. He’s worked with lacrosse athletes, archers, divers, etc.
CONTACT
Instagram - @tracypeal
Facebook - @tracypealspeed
Twitter - @tracypealspeed