Frontside mechanics are how you produce maximum power and ultimately sprint faster. Great frontside mechanics are critically important in sprinting because they help to optimize your speed and efficiency.

Frontside and backside mechanics are terms that are thrown around a lot. However despite how common they are there seems to be a bit of confusion as to what they mean and how they relate to speed.

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When sprinting, your frontside mechanics refer to everything that happens in front of the hips. Proper frontside mechanics involve driving the knee forward and up towards the chest (strong hip flexors), which allows you to generate greater force and maintain a stable core position.

When you develop proper frontside mechanics, you can increase the length of your stride and generate greater power with less effort. This leads to a more efficient and faster sprinting motion, which results in a significant increase in speed.

In contrast, backside mechanics, involve a more inefficient movement pattern where your legs move backwards behind your body in a reverse crescent moon movement. This can cause you to loose power, and increase ground time. Backside mechanics can also cause you to land in front of your center of mass which limits your ability to push down the track.

In this lesson Olympic coach Ken Harnden provides a complete overview of frontside and backside mechanics. You'll get actionable tips to improve your sprinting form as well as 4 super effective drills that will help you develop great frontside mechanics.

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