I believe the king of mobility drills (for most people) is anything that leads to improved ability to flex one hip while extending the other hip. This hip dissociation is often locked up, which leads to compensations in walking, running and sprinting.
This doesn’t mean you need to go crazy with your stretching and try to achieve the front splits. We just need REQUISITE mobility in order to walk and run optimally.
This hip dissociation also won’t come from squatting, deadlifting or even single leg squats. But we can begin building this dissociation mobility with split squat variations.
The split squat won’t all of a sudden make you a good runner… but it can give us the requisite mobility through the hips, and also the toes on the back leg (if toes aren’t flexible enough we can’t achieve hip extension + risk many other compensations).
From there we can make it more dynamic and add speed into the picture… and eventually the real magic will happen through running and sprinting itself!
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