The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement
Shane Benzieamazon.com
The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement
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.
If anything sets us apart it is a kind of sensitivity. We can hear a faint chord vibrating on old and brittle strings. It begins to resonate through us when we rise predawn for a morning run. The sound builds the longer we stay at it. On a long run through the mountains our attention becomes focused, in tune, automatic. Each footfall and each breat
... See moreWhen my colleague Dr. Aaron Baggish attached accelerometers (tiny devices, like Fitbits, that measure steps per day) to more than twenty Tarahumara men, he discovered they walked on average ten miles a day. In other words, the training that enables them to run back-to-back marathons is the physical work that is part and parcel of their everyday lif
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