From last week’s New York Times magazine…Christopher McDougall, who wrote the excellent book Born to Run, continues on the quest to teach a less injury prone way of running.
Even though I personally hate running, I find this a fascinating topic and article.
If you take a look at the attached video http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/11/02/magazine/100000001149415/the-lost-secret-of-running.html, you get a pretty clear sense that the most natural stride of running that they espouse is quite similar to a cycling motion with little upper body motion—an elliptical movement with minimal duration of impact in any direction.
The most telling is that kids already do this naturally. As quite often happens, as adults with our fancy shoes and loaded egos, we run from what’s most natural.
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