The Cool Impossible

Chronically tight muscles come from muscle dominance and unequal muscle activation. If you have equilibrium, you should not be chronically tight. Therefore (and this may surprise you, because it goes against popular wisdom), we should not need to stretch excessively. Excessive tightness is telling you something, and stretching may help it feel bett

I describe the ideal of the running form you’ll soon be learning as “performance” because “form” is at the heart of the word. Without form, there’s no performance, full stop.

For the moment, forget the slant board and stability disk. Let’s just do a quick test of your foot strength. Balance on one foot. Maybe it’s challenging, but not too difficult? Now balance only on your forefoot, your heel off the ground. Try to maintain that position for thirty seconds. Not as easy as you thought, right? You probably had to fight f