This is an issue that has plagued my whole running career and I'm not sure how to fix it. Whenever I run it always sounds like im stomping especially when I'm sprinting. Is there anyway to prevent this?
This is an issue that has plagued my whole running career and I'm not sure how to fix it. Whenever I run it always sounds like im stomping especially when I'm sprinting. Is there anyway to prevent this?
Couple of thoughts.
Your body wants proprioceptive feedback when your foot touches down on the ground.
If your shoes are really densely padded, you have to step on the ground harder to get the feedback that you need.
Try shoes with a little less padding and stick to smooth grass and trails.
While still maintaining hip flexibility, work on your hip flexor strength.
Bent legged sit-ups and also one legged sit-ups with a diagonal twist on each one. Alternate left-right.
If you're doing push-ups, do some with two hands and one leg.
Also try doing two legs but one hand with just a little assist from the other hand.
As you get stronger, you may be able to do one hand one leg using the diagonal hand and leg. If you think about it, that makes sense because that's the way you use your muscles when you run: bringing one arm forward while you bring the opposite leg forward.
Maintain your hip flexibility.
Do not strike the Earth when you run.
It didn't do anything to you.
Caress the Earth, thinking about brush strokes with your footsteps.
Everything you do and running allows you to maintain the most efficient forward momentum possible and the only time that occurs is when your foot touches the ground.
Your strength.
Your aerobic capacity.
Your coordination of movements.
The goal of all those is focused on one moment In time when your foot touches the ground in such a way as to maintain forward momentum.
The best runner of leaves no tracks,
Like fog moving across the mountains.
Hit the hills
Take off those super shoes. Those things are noisemakers.
Get something akin to older style flats. I mix up runs between varying stack shoes and find when I've run in Adizero Pro's which feel more like an unresponsive flat, my footstrike and gait cycle is a lot smoother.
Run in place. I doubt you'll stomp the ground. Then lean forward a little so that you are in a slow, easy jog. After that it's just a matter of scaling up (do this very gradually or your calves/achilles will become very sore).