Already called it a year ago. Eliminate the heel lift in shoes.
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=3291723&page=0
this idiot canʻt even pronounce mebʻs last name right. not even close.
another thing i see, when talking about the overstride angle, they show pictures of samuel wajiru and other kenyans that have "perfect" stride length, and all the americans that have "terrible" stride length, and they are in different phases of their stride. The africans angle is measured after their foot has already hit the ground. wtf
The bounce videos crack me up. The one of hall is completely zoomed in and the african is from a far distance. WTF.
Microfiber reduction - in minutes - how does that happen?
He's an idiot. According to his ideas, Haile Gebreselassie is a very inneficient runner.
Did you guys go to their website, something like $350 per hour and a minimum of 30 hrs of training. It is a racket
Who knew your center of gravity was your nose? Amazing.
From the article -
http://www.somaxsports.com/wanjiru.html
"The runner above increased his stride angle from 95-125° after we released microfibers in his hips. Since he improved his stride angle 30°, he was covering 60% more ground with each stride. When he returned to his high school track team, his coach asked his parents where he got his ‘mile-long stride’."
Note that they did not mention his improvement as he went back to the track team, just the quote from his coach saying he looks like a dumbass bounding down the track for his 6:00 mile.
We had a discussion of running form last week on RunnersRoundTable with, among others, Steve Magness and Pete Larson. If you've seen those high-speed shots of the Boston leaders,
, they're from Pete. (If you haven't they're worth a look.) The consensus was that allowances must be made for the idiosyncrasies among runners and the focus should be on overstriding and stride-rate.
http://runnersroundtablepodcast.blogspot.com/2010/09/rrt98-running-form-thurs-916-at-8pm-edt.html
Thanks for the slow motion vid. thats pretty cool. They all seem to have a different form to me, but what do I know. I always imagined kenyans with less heal strike as they didn't wear shoes growing up and less cushioning. The Kenyan on our XC team has been having major shin problems as he has been running in heavy NIke shoes.
right. everybody runs (or at least should run) with about the same stride frequency, so if his stride got so much longer, either he's bounding like a moron (low stride frequency) or he suddenly became one of the fastest runners in the world.
Meb DOES overstride quite a bit-you can tell the first two just move more effeciently. Goumri overstrides a bit as well.
Btw, the original video makes some good points, but then throws away all credibility with claims of 2 hour marathons if some American marathoners improved their form. Much of what the original video discussed is VERY important and what seperates joggers from decent runners, decent runners from faster runners, faster runners from elite runners, and elite runners from the best of all time.
Running is all about force production, and absorbing energy from the ground then transfering it into useful energy that moves the body forward. It is all about effecient movement and angles that the joints make with each other, the ground, or straight down.
John Walker said "a runner should be as strong as possible around the hips. This area can never be strong enough"
Coe said "at a young age my father taught me that running was all about lines and angles, about moving as effeciently as possible"
He also said "from the ages of 14 to 18 we worked on my core strength with a series of exercises. I slowly became very strong in the area from my knees to my sternum. This coincided with a marked increase in my basic speed. Running is all about the simple transfer of energy throughout the body"
(all paraphrased but pretty close)
You will never see a great runner at any level (and at any distance, from 100m to the marathon) without
-good range of motion in the ankles or hips when running
-footstrike that absorbs a significant amount of impact
-arm movement that is in sync with the legs/hips
-torso that moves very little side to side
-a low body fat %
so does this mean paula radcliff would run 2:05 if she cleaned up her bounce and form?
please, this "science" is horrible for the reasons mentioned. economy of motion is important all right but it is merely one piece of the puzzle. there is vo2, heat dissipation, etc. that all matters.
he claims the one guy improved his stride length by 60%...what? so if he had a 30" stride his new stride was 48 inches?
and the whole "touch your hamstring and now you can stretch 50% farther" right.....
Actually the video is full of crap.
EVERY elite runner has several inches of bounce...not measured on some crappy youtube video with NO reference point which makes the measurements useless, but in real gait analysis.
Why do they bounce? To cover ground. If you had no bounce you would cover less ground, i.e. your stride length would decrease. It's about optimal bounce, not minimal or maximal.
The leg cross over thing is crap.
The stride angle is measured horribly on the videos. Does it matter, somewhat, but it's not a goal. And you don't measure it off youtube videos.
Also the overstride analysis is rediculous. Yes it matters, but they measured it at initial contact with the americans and then measured it when the foot was planted and loaded with the africans. No one has a -12deg angle. That was horrible misuse of selecting the frame you want.
The video is useless.
also, you cross over with your legs when you run as you need to plant you weight UNDER your self. go out and run on a line in the road and you will notice that your feet will cross over and you will put your foot down on the line. if you tried to stay on the out side of the line your weight would shift back and forth.
The cross over thing is interesting. Some runners do it and many don't, and this includes elite runners.
Glad I'm not the only person who thought this video was total garbage. He couldn't even pronounce half the people's names, was using old measuring techniques, provided no actual proof that fixing this stuff will produce better results, and only studied a small sample of runners.
Lagat definitely runs on a line, he may even cross over.
Check him out on the backstretch here, from 2:05 to 2:09:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9O-ZyWsC-M#t=2m02s
And 1:30-1:35 here:
Lagat has a terrible form, he bobbles back and forth.
Compare that form to El G, very smooth.