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SHORTEST STRIDE WINS Record breaking technique secret By coach Jack Nirenstein Author: Running—Just Undo It THE PRIME HEALTH BENEFITS FOR PROBLEM… Obesity, circulation, respiration, vitality, self esteem, relaxation, fun Makes life easier in your most often used activity, self transport. THE SHORTEST STRIDE TECHNIQUE A video of a sprinter will show his foot reaching far in front of his body’s center of balance in the air only. The foot strike, however, touches down behind his center. This imbalance position is the only way everyone strides to pick up speed with each step. A sprinter’s foot striking point is farther behind his center and kept striking there for much more steps than a slower runner. That is what all the researchers missed seeing. If they look again more closely, they can see this always happening. It is the basis for my newly learned science. Naturally you can’t pick up speed with each step forever. Therefore, the sprinter levels his pace at the faster speed he reaches. Leveling the pace requires his foot-strike-point at a reach ahead of his body’s center. That point for a sprinter is a shorter reach ahead of his center than a slower runner. Here again the sprinter reaches far in front in the air then drops the foot back to his short reach landing point. You should not try to emulate the range of motion of a sprinter for slower running. The speed of the sprinter creates an over-stride that would hinder a slower runner. The formula to win can now be learned by everyone. You don’t have to be born with the talent. The secret is simply in the runner whose feet drop more to the rear on average always wins the race. Your sense of balance won’t let you do that without my full technique. It will sense that you will fall and lock your muscles. This article is just a few tips, but you need to learn them all. Every one of my methods needs to be used or you could be derailed. HOW CAN A SHORTER STRIDE BE FASTER? The videos don’t lie. Every video of a sprinter shows exactly what I just told you. It seems strange that a sprinter who uses every ounce of his power with an intention to stride long would instead stride short. My hard science running technique has many surprises. A sprinter uses none of his power for speed. His shorter stride makes him faster because gravity pushes him harder when his reach is shorter. This is just starting to make sense but I can make it perfectly obvious with this test. Run as fast as you can for fifteen yards. Notice the first few steps drop automatically to the rear of your body’s center. You can’t get to your running pace any other way. You can feel the striking point more accurately than you can see it in a video. For ages researchers have been looking at a picture of a runner with his leg slanted behind his vertical body and never realized that he is in the process of falling forward. His foot is rolling in place similar to a slanted pole falling. A slanted leg and a slanted pole are off balance and cannot stand still because they are pulled by gravity.. Running is known to be hard and detrimental to the joints. My full technique changes that. That will be in another lesson. Rather than give you too much to absorb I will give you a lesson in running and gravity. On the space station, your feet can propel you head first with astronomical speed and distance. They can’t get you to walk or run because you won’t fall forward. You can’t be pushed forward by your legs. Only gravity can push you forward. On the moon you can jump higher than you can on earth. You can’t run as fast as on earth because lighter gravity won’t push you as fast as heavier gravity. What the experts teach in the current state of the art and so-called science is not another way of running. My way is the only way it can be done. Everyone already does it my way. They just don’t do the technique with enough efficiency. The power that everyone uses is to toss the body up while it is falling forward. The purpose of the toss up is to float the body level with the ground. And the power to exchange the feet is used to catch the body before it falls too low. WHY TRAINING METHODS NEVER IMPROVED ANYONE All training methods make you stronger to improve your speed. But they only work to a meaningful improvement on runners that have a higher degree in a sense of balance for speed. Runners that don’t develop their ability to make their foot strike more to the rear, will never improve with any training method. You’ve seen countless examples of runners struggling with slow running forever. With my discoveries, running skill can be learned. You can develop a faster speed than the natural athlete by learning my method of using gravity for more speed than you can with your natural ability to improve. All of my techniques keep adding more softness, smoothness and speed on top of one another. Now that a technique has arrived that will bring sanity to running, runners should learn to do it skillfully before they run. It is also important to know the bad advice the experts are giving and why they are bad. You can use their techniques to test mine. One of the best ways to find out what is good is to try the opposite technique and see which works. You couldn’t do it before because there was no right technique to try in against. Try running with the longest reaching foot strike, then with the shortest reaching foot strike. Now do all the other methods others teach and compare them with my opposite methods. Another simple test you can make is to stand with one foot in front of the other. Lift the front foot and notice that gravity pushes your body forward. You are just standing and rolling on your foot without pushing. Do this again by lifting your back foot, and notice that you fall backward. It is all in the slant of the leg at foot strike. After the foot strike there in nothing more you can do to add speed. Here is another shocker; pushing back at the ground never happens. The leg swings like a pendulum from the hip. If you made it pull back, it would swing up and drop the body. Pushing back is wasted effort by runners. TRIED AND UNTRUE RUNNING TECHNIQUES What never worked STRIDE LENGTH AND FOOT SPEED It implies lengthening the stride and exchanging the feet faster. You can land farther ahead in a slow walk than you can in a run. You can exchange your feet faster with a short stride. Try your longest stride against your shortest and see what works better. KNEE HIGH IN FRONT AND FOOT HIGH IN BACK Air time is slowdown time. This keeps you in the air too long. Try running their way against keeping the knee and foot as low as you can. Compare. KNEE THRUST The knee travels back a short distance to its limited range of motion. The foot takes longer to return from a longer travel back and up. Both need to be returned as soon as they can be made to. Coaches want you to exchange the feet fast, but teach you methods that make it slower. Try thrusting the knee forward first, and delay the foot thrusting forward. Then try thrusting the upper leg and lower leg forward together and compare. PUSH HARDER INTO THE GROUND That makes you jump too high and loose speed. It gives you more air time which slows you. Try jumping as high as you can to run. Then, jump as low as you can and compare. LAND UNDER YOUR BODY You can only hop in place doing when your landing is centered. A level pace has you reaching ahead of your body’s center. Picking up speed is only done by keeping the feet dropping to the rear. Try hopping in place and try to move forward with a centered landing. Then try hopping in place first then drop your feet to the rear and compare. BRING YOUR ARMS UP AND FORWARD A CERTAIN WAY Champions do it many different ways. It doesn’t affect your running. Resistance to the upper body actually helps pushing the foot forward. Try different directions of arm swings and see them all work equally. TWIST THE HIP TO DRIVE THE FOOT FORWARD That turns the foot to the side and twists it hard at landing. The hip is the center of the twist and shouldn’t rotate. LAND ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE HEEL AND ROLL IN It is an unstable way to land and causes pronation, supination and shock. Try touching lightly with a medium lifted toe, then press flat. The toe will eliminate the side roll. TILT THE UPPER BODY FORWARD TO LEAN FOR SPEED That does not slant the leg behind the body to make you run faster. It makes your back muscles work too hard and rounded shoulders crunches your chest. Besides, you can tilt your upper body forward and run backward. It doesn’t change your speed. A few steps after your start, run erect and compare. AFTER YOU LAND, TILT THE UPPER BODY FORWARD TO LEAN FOR SPEED After you land there is nothing you can do afterward to increase speed. The slant of the leg at foot strike is your total tilt for speed. Besides, have you ever seen a runner bob back and forth with his upper body? It is impossible. LAND ON THE TOES That does not increase your speed in anything but a sprint, where it helps you get off your feet faster than rolling on the entire foot. It helps your knees and injures your calves, shins and plantar muscles in distance running. Landing on the toes has been said to be a Pose method innovation. Runners have been doing it forever, as well as other ways. Nobody can claim it as theirs. PAWBACK That is just another way of saying push back at the ground. It is impossible because a slanted leg behind the body will go up and the body dropped to the ground. Trying to push back at the ground, works against a leg that is straightening to lift the body. PUSH BACK HARDER AT THE GROUND You can’t push back at the ground at all. A backward slanted leg can only go up and the body drops down to the ground RELAX How can you relax when trying to use the above faults that are diametrically opposed to the physical laws of nature? Confused muscles contract for and against the movement simultaneously. It tightens your whole body. Try running by pushing back at the ground. Then try running without trying to push back at the ground and see which is more relaxed. TRAINING METHODS You shouldn’t run with bad technique. Training methods can’t protect you from physical faults or make you into an efficient runner. STRIDE LENGTH AND FOOT SPEED IS CONFUSING Experts think they can prove me wrong on this long standing belief that the stride lengthens as you go faster. They have measured it many times and found that the stride does lengthen as you go faster. Even though I am aware that the stride lengthens, I will explain why I say that a short stride allows you to go faster. I told you it is confusing. Everyone uses a technique to shorten their stride without knowing they are doing it. They do it with a moderate body twist to reverse the direction of the feet. The right shoulder twists forward, while the left leg twists forward. You don’t want to twist too hard to shorten the stride in distance running because it makes you work too hard. Here’s why the stride gets a little longer as you go faster. The speed spreads the feet apart to the rear before you can reverse their direction. The foot moves back and higher towards the butt with each faster speed. You can always see that happening in videos of runners. The ground whips the foot back faster and the follow through in the air make it go higher. In a sprint you twist as hard and short as you can to shorten the stride. The faster drag back of the foot by the ground moving away, flips the foot back and higher before you can reverse its direction. So you can see that the answer is that the stride length increases moderately as you add speed, but your attempt to shorten it allows you to run faster. If you lengthen your stride by reaching ahead, you will slow yourself down. The sprinter who can shorten the stride the most wins. Foot speed increases, back and forth, as you add speed, but not turnover rate. The spread of the feet increases, so the takeaway and return takes longer. While the foot return speed is increased, the exchange rate is lengthened by the bigger distance. You don’t need to know the math of stride length and foot speed. You can feel where your foot is striking the ground. If you want to pick up speed, do the foot strike more to the rear. When you see that method works, no coach can force you to change to their slower method. They weren’t able to change Michael Johnson. If you can pick up speed, from a slow pace to a moderately fast pace by dropping the feet more to the rear, the speed principle is working. When you can’t pick up speed to a very fast pace, the problem is in your ability to manipulate fast enough to catch yourself. What you need to do is push your manipulation speed to your limit with repetitions of your sprint speed, until you get faster coordination at it. It works similar to playing the drums, piano or typing. In running you now have an advantage. My science will get you fast. Running is not as simple as putting one foot in front of the other. It is as simple as dropping your feet to the rear. It is easy for grade school children to see how gravity makes an imbalanced body fall. That is the best time for everyone to learn my technique. USE GRAVITY TO RUN You already use it because it is the only force that can send anybody forward. It was ruled out because nobody knew a technique, before, that could make it work better than the natural way. Author Jack Nirenstein has all the antidotes for all the above bad form and the one feature that always wins the race. That is what true science is. “JUST RUN NATURAL” IS OUT OF DATE Most runners go out running with the intention of improving their performance and getting healthier but never do. Their natural inclination is to push harder to increase their stride. That is diametrically opposed to the physical laws. Take long jumps as far as you can and you won’t be able to exceed the speed of a very slow walk. Bill Rodgers, the most famous runner, wrote in his book that running is not a technique sport like golf. He should know whether any of the techniques I prove wrong are worthwhile. None of the professionals can accept my technique. They can’t prove it wrong because it is simple for the average person to see that it is in line with the physical law of gravity. Coaches realize that, if it gets out that they didn’t know how to run, people, won’t accept them as experts. Check out how the experts will respond to this article. Runner’s World magazine, owned by Rodale, are the leading authorities on running technique reporting. Send them a copy of this article and ask them to compare their techniques to mine. This is a great way to get the best information out to the world. Runner’s World has their own books on running.
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