RUNNING DISCOVERY

Nobody understood by looking at a level pace like the one above that during the ground time the runner is standing off balance. From left to right the first picture shows the runner at a backward slant and gravity is slowing her down against momentum. The second picture is the end of the slowdown phase and beginning of the speedup phase. The third picture is the end of the speedup phase. The fourth picture is air time and another slowdown phase. What makes this stride off balance is the heavier pull of gravity and momentum working together to make the speedup phase a stronger pull by gravity. You get more speedup than slowdown. Gravity is the only downward and forward force. The jump reverses the forward and downward fall to just a forward pull by gravity. Scientists looked at the same running stride pictures that I looked at and they did not understand what was obvious to me. If these objects were statues they would be pulled forward and down to the ground ahead of their foot/feet. These objects are alive so they jump straight up for gravity to pull them forward instead of down. No object, animate or inanimate can stand still off of a vertical line of balance. REVOLUTIONARY SCIENCE FOR YOUR #1 PHYSICAL ACTIVITY Self transport (walking to sprinting speeds) are redefined as running slow to fast Jack Nirenstein If self transport isn?t now your number one priority to make yo stronger, it should be. It is the most often used physical activity for everyone. It is also the healthiest physical activity. * � For getting from point A to point B easier * � For increased circulation and respiration * � For overall body exercise * � For strengthening the heart * � For weight control * � For family involvement and motivating kids * � For athletic performance NOW TECHNIQUE CAN MAKE YOUR LIFE EASIER You struggle with your self transport because your technique is flawed. You have no idea of what you are doing, you just do it naturally. The method you use is what you learned as a child. You started by falling to your parents arms until you learned to catch yourself. The feet dropped behind to send you forward. Then you learned to drop your feet ahead to catch yourself. What you just learned is something nobody ever noticed?that self transport (what I call running) is a balancing act. Gravity locks you in place when you are centered, and makes your body topple to the ground when standing off center. The lift or jump stops you from falling down. The problem that arose with your natural technique is because you learned that you can push the upper body forward with a push by you legs. The push never happens, only gravity makes you run at all speeds. There are no technical scientific terms needed to explain my discoveries. You are acquainted with what gravity can do and that is all the science you need to understand to become a champion. The person who drops his feet less ahead of center (approximately navel high) on average, is the one who wins the race. That is the only way possible to win. I can prove it to your satisfaction in one minute. Run four steps forward and backward. Notice that your feet drop to the rear to go forward and drop to the front to run backward. It will always happen that way at the start of a run?the technique is absolute science. Another thing that will surprise you is what you can do on a treadmill. The overall ground time amounts to an off balance standing position. The distance of the reach ahead of your body?s center combined with the distance behind is what determines your pace. You are always hitting the same distance ahead to keep up with the belt. Drop your feet more behind and you will speed up and hit the front of the treadmill. Drop your feet more to the front and you will fall off the back. Gravity speeds you up and slows you down when your balance changes. If you hold on to the bar of the treadmill you can drop your feet at any distance behind or ahead and still keep up with the belt. Your arms are pulling you and not gravity. The above lesson is far from complete. It informs you about what is supposed to happen and not enough technique to make it happen. You need to learn techniques to get your feet forward fast, lift properly to change the toppling to an upward forward rise, land softly, smooth rhythmic strides, relaxation and breathing. One common misconception people have is that tilting the upper body forward influences speed. It only does on the first step to shoot the body far ahead of center. After that it has no effect. The only thing that matters is the distance away from center you drop your feet. You can tilt your body forward and stand still and even run backward with the body tilted forward. All this amounts to the only technique science for running. Nothing else given by anyone will give you the gravity power to go forward at all speeds. They won?t give you the ability to take one step forward, no less improve your speed. A currently accepted formula is stride length and stride frequency. It has a lot of flaws. It doesn?t tell you that you need to get off balance. You can?t stride long and increase the exchange rate of the feet. If you start by leaping as far as you can you cannot go faster than a very slow walk, so that doesn?t add speed. You can't also measure an idea relationship between stride length and stride frequency. Just forget that formula. When you get up to your top speed the stride does increase because of the speed, but at a sprint speed you are working as hard as you can to cut off the follow through and speed your foot forward fast. To learn more go to: http://www.running-justundoit.com The best place to compare my discovery against what the experts teach is by contacting the editors of Runner?s World magazine. They have published articles by the others, but won?t publish mine. They disagree with mine, which I think they are afraid of it hurting them. Contact: Editor-in-Chief: david.willey@rodale.com Executive Editors: peter.flax@rodale.com tish.hamilton@rodale.com Editor at Large: amby.burfoot@rodale.com You can e-mail David Willey and copy to the rest Other publishers you can check out against my technique are: Scholastic Coach and Athletic Director magazine Running Times magazine USA Track and Field Road Runners Club of America New York Road Runners Club <noframes> </body> </html>