How to run: Run method within

In comments to one of my posts one commentator said that running just not quite normal people. Why? What for?! For now, technical progress is fully secured and human means of transportation has run to nothing. That is, running became a throwback not the result of evolution (we're not grown wings, right?), And as a result of the fact that people came up with the machine. As a result, once one of the best runners in the world simply forgotten how to run.

Not just run and run correctly! You can learn from this the Indians, who live far away from civilization, and remember how to do simple things. They are able to run barefoot 100 miles along the canyon and not get a single injury. And it's not because the soles of their feet are the same as that of the hobbits. And because they know the secret, known even to children who are just beginning to walk, but immediately forget about it when older. If it's in person at the same level with sucking and swallowing reflex, so we run around for a long time. The main thing to remember how to do it correctly.

Previously, according to the laws of nature and the survival of the fittest one who could run fast and long to escape from the enemy or chasing prey. And now, indeed for all of this does not need to run. Now nothing at all to do. You can just sit in one place and get everything at once, not only all the benefits of civilization, but also the accompanying sedentary lifestyle health problems. Evolution does not happen so quickly and the fact that a man will leave only what you need (head and stomach) she will take a lot of time. In the meantime, we have legs, arms and body, which is the call of the ancestors requires normal care and development. And there is not worth running in last place.

Christopher McDougall, author of the book "Born to run» (Christopher McDougall, »Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Super Athletes and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen. »), Shares his thoughts on the article on this subject NewYork Times.

In it, he describes the research of Peter Larson (Peter Larson), an evolutionary biologist at New hempsherskom College Saint Anselm (Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire), who was watching the barefoot runners for several years, and other scientists and writers, coaches, marathon and many others.

To be very brief, no super heaped sneakers, created by the most advanced templates research, or running shoes with individual insoles, will not save you from injury if you do not know properly run.

When children begin to walk, they cross very funny for an adult - like hang in the air for a moment, one foot is already raised, while others have not yet had time to go down to ground. This is the correct running technique, planted our nature from birth until our genes still remember how our ancestors hunted and overcome huge distance running.

The picture shows the step of the runner (clickable image).

This style of racing is called Pose Method and if you zadatite this search phrase in Youtube, will find there are plenty of videos detailing the techniques and exercises.

If you are really interested Pose Method, go to the NY Times, and read article completely. There are 5 pages of text in English, but easy to read and understandable :)

I am not in any way encourage you to run barefoot. Just do not rely entirely on your shoes - it does not guarantee you 100% protection from injury. Train your legs and rely on them - they do not disappoint.