Evolution Running (DVD)

Buy This Item Evolution Running (DVD) by FitBuy.com  Available from Amazon  $23.75  on 8-8-2008     The Ultrafit Multisport Training Series Athletes in every sport except running devote enormous attention to perfecting even minute details of the movements they will be required to produce in competition. Running coaches just tell their athletes to run longer and harder. Runners, and their coaches, have basically ignored technique for years, assuming that their natural stride will give them efficiency and injury resistance. We have found that this simply is not the case. For the past decade, African runners have dominated distance running at its highest levels. Research on what makes these runners faster consistently demonstrates normal VO2 Max and lactate threshold levels for elite runners. Their height, weight, and limb-length ratios all fall into the normal category. Clearly and consistently, what sets the great African runners apart is that they are more efficient than their competitors, running faster without expending more energy. Experts in running economy agree that running barefoot through childhood contributes significantly to the extraordinary economy of these athletes. We're not suggesting that you run barefoot. We are suggesting that you take the time and effort to learn the techniques that may be more natural running barefoot, and implement them into your shoe-running technique. Reader Reviews You don't have to be an elite runner to learn to run like the elite runners! All runners, especially those who are just starting on a new running goal, would benefit from this video. I bought this DVD 3 years ago, when I first started running barefoot, and the ideas in this DVD are based on barefoot running techniques. Almost all of the advice in this video is spot-on, and the vast majority of runners would benefit from using this DVD to improve their running form. I coach track (distance and middle distance events) at the high school level, and I pass this DVD around to my athletes, especially ones that are prone to overstriding and heel striking. I was a heel-striker for 25 years, and this resulted in repeated injuries, including 5 cases of plantar fasciitis. Using the techniques from this video (and applying them to barefoot running) I have been injury free for the past 3 years. The advice in this video isn't really new--Jack Daniels and many other coaches have taught these techniques for years--but this DVD brings a lot of great ideas on running form together in one place, and does what no book can do--show you clearly the difference between proper running form, and the way most amateurs run (overstriding with slow cadence). My only gripe is the advice given about running downhill. He claims that you can land with your foot slightly behind the spot directly below your center of mass, when running downhill, and this is plain wrong. Besides coaching, I also teach physics at my high school, and I know that landing behind your center of mass produces a net torque on the body, which can only be counteracted if you are *accelerating* downhill. Still, the advice about downhill running isn't bad, in that most runners will land too far in front of their body when running downhill, and will slow their cadence below their normal pace. The idea of landing closer to the spot right below the center of mass is a good goal--a wrong idea can still lead to a different way of thinking about running, and lead to a better downhill run, with a faster and smoother cadence.

Evolution Running (DVD) Available from Amazon Price: $23.75 Updated on 8-8-2008.

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