Curated Action

Overhead Arms Wicket Sprint

Track & Field / Sprinting

Overhead Arms Wicket Sprint is a reusable training action. Review its coaching notes and targets below.

Reusable training actionVideo demonstration10 sec

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Overhead Arms Wicket Sprint

Athlete executes a full run-in and sprints through laid-down wickets with arms extended as high overhead as possible. Sets, reps, and rest are not specified.

Key points

  • Take a full run-in to achieve high approach speed before entering the wickets
  • Extend hands as high overhead as possible while sprinting over the wickets
  • Stay big in the front and short in the back without letting spikes flip up behind

Common mistakes

Letting the heels kick out behind (showing spikes to Jesus) instead of stepping over and driving down.

Sets: 1Rest: 1 minEst. duration: 10 sec
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