How Do You Alternate Steps Running Hurdles?
“We did some walking, we did some skipping. I want to take you into a running drill going over three hurdles. What’s interesting about this drill is that normally when you’re in competition in a 100-meter hurdle, you’re going to do 3 steps in between each hurdle. For the women, 8 meters separate the hurdles, for the men it’s about 10 meters in between. So, ideally you want to do 3 steps in between each hurdle. But, for this exercise I’m going to actually do 4 steps just to show you that alternating is also an option. Some coaches actually train their athletes to be alternate hurdlers. Especially in high school you’ll notice that for the 100-meter hurdlers a lot of high school students can do 4 steps in between. When it gets to the collegiate level that tends to die down and you do 3 steps in between. But, when you get to the 400-meter hurdles it really, really comes in handy with the 400 meter hurdles to do alternating steps. If you land on…your dominate leg is your lead leg, your le
