An ingenious way to run faster - BBC REEL
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ม.ค. 2022
- Ever wondered why you can’t meet your fitness goals?
Behavioural scientist Emily Balcetis turned to elite runners to find the answer. She proposes a strategy that consists of changing your visual focus.
Video by: Izabela Cardoso & Fernando Teixeira
Executive producer: Griesham Taan
#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews
I focus on getting up in the morning when I get in bed at night. Really helps me sleep faster!
No way, focusing too much on anything before bed keeps your mind busy & active, keeping you awake. To be unconscious you need to release all thoughts and relax your mind so the body can rest. That's probably why we need to first close our eyes to sleep, with zero focus.
@@peterlee9691 My comment was sarcastic.
It is important for us pro sleepers to exchange these vital informations.
Good mics aren't hard to find these days. It's 2022. Her audio sounded like it was coming from a 2011 Dell laptop parked the other side of the room!
That's some good nostalgia mate!
BBC better notice your comment
So many videos on TH-cam are like this. Almost grating to the ears
Shallow comments - listen to words - it's like saying I don't like her dress
2:28 simplistic assessment. Why assume that it changed their mindset rather than their body mechanics? When you walk you often look down. When you look down your head is tilted down. Where your head goes your body goes, so your posture will be oriented relatively more downward. This may explain greater joint or knee pain and slower pace, but what it even considered?
This is interesting. You're not just beating yourself over the head with positive thoughts. You're changing your focus, so your self narrative will change.
Focusing upon a consistent visual target - such as a finish line, allows the proprioception sense to update more frequently and accurately. With a more precise measure of where you are and the state of your balance, then your motor cortex can make better decisions of how much strength to direct to each part of your motion. This would of itself be enough to produce significant performance gains, using better balance, body control and frequent small corrections to your path in every step down the track. These are fairly universal features common to most animals with half-decent eyesight and the urge to get and not become dinner.
It doesn’t require high-level cognitive narratives about motivation or wish-fulfilment as a necessary cause of better mechanical function, although such ideas can become fashionable for selling novel self-help products and services.
Very well said
👍 Brilliant
😂🤣
This is an awesome explanation! But don’t you think that this might be layered with some of the high-level cognitive “woo woo” to enhance performance even further? Perhaps it’s both? :)
Yep this is basically the first thing you need to learn as a climber because without focus you will just find yourself lost on the wall.
I found myself clinging to the wall with all my will to survive because my rope buddy lost focus because of his pathological OCD. I've never been climbing since.
During marathons, i usually stare at the clouds and just start thinking of random things. Not about the race or how fast i am going and before i realise it... I can fly.
Superman is that u?
Loool
Just make sure you don't fall down a hole
I can’t tell whether you’re being serial or not 😅.
Thank you, Doctor. Thank you, BBC.
Stay focused, stay alive.
Coming in second here. So if the finish is beyond sight range are you supposed to move it closer to some other point and then extend it again. Not real clear considering it's BBC and the concept fits within this comment.
Visualization is key, I do this before my workout. Plan it !!
Choice point…. Love that, so visual …. Tactic and tool, to focus .
This is only helpful on a small subset of exercises and less helpful to anything else in life. Listen to Dr. Andrew Huberman's podcast on making habits, that can actually help
I have done this for long to finish my target running distance when I’ve thought I won’t be able to finish it. Interesting!
How does this work for something like wanting to make xyzK this month or want to complete a certification in a week? What is the level of motivation (assuming you have the commitment) required to do these things, given that the external variables are much more complex and beyond your control?
is the finish line incentive? or is crossing the line is the drive?
This really works 👍
Great video. Inspiring and informative. Added to my Motivation folder for repeat viewing ☺️
Amazing! Ty
I firmly believe that this syndrome is also key in childhood. Everything is fun, focus, achievable for a kid's brain. When adult everything becomes a chore and a drag.
The audio in this video is atrocious!
Great video! Greetings from Peru
Such a deceptive title for this video. All the same, really enjoyed it.
People move towards what they look at. Got it.
Title: An ingenious way to run faster
Actual video: Let's talk about how to meet your fitness goals
It makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint. As hunters, you need to stay focused on your prey while chasing it.
That's a good point
making the Comfort focus be on maintaining eyesight versus perturbation, steadier spines and less-joggly-joints follow psychomechanically ;)
When I’m running marathons I imagine the roar of the crowd over the last half mile.
It helps, it’s uplifting.
Having said that, the intervention group must be very low ability.
Step 1 get hungry tiger, step 2 run.
Cool!
They described the law of attraction. You get what you are focused on.
Not sure this is of much help for trail running... I spend a lot of time scanning right in front of me so as not to trip on a root or rock.
That would be especially important on a technical trail or even a mountain pass where losing focus could see you off a cliff. This actually happened in one of the races at UTMB in 2021, with fatal results. Try focusing on the finish line while running across a button grass plain.
I doubt it
How many shrinks does it take to change a lightbulb? No more than one, if the lightbulb chooses, deeply decides, to change.
💯
"There's only one last standing
Got my eyes on the ending
There's only one crown
It's got my name on it"
Sorry- the sound was so dreadful and harsh I had to stop listening. And I was interested!
the problem is exercise is not racing
It’s quite clear who the BBC’s target market demographic is based on the actors in the video
In police training, challenging runs were often finished while staring at a massive tree on the grounds! Now I know why 😄
While it is true that “we all create our own reality” - what we do is the reflection of our mind-set, both individually and collectively.
Nonetheless, if exercise is the aim for maintaining/improving health (to manage daily physical and mental activities with ease), then keeping on the fast-running exercise regime will overdone the original goal.
Focus on the Audio next time..
Set a goal to improve your bathroom quality audio
In other words, aim small miss small.
Do I believe this video or the one that says people who focus on the journey and not the goal are more successful long term? 🤔 So confused.
All very well in a race setting but most people making a new years resolution to get fit aren't entering the London Marathon now are they? They just want to start walking each day to get healthy and constantly focusing on the finish line (say 3 miles) is off putting and most won't end up doing it. Instead (and it's what I do) put some music on and forget about the actual act of walking or how far and just enjoy music as you walk. By the time you've listened to an Oasis album you've covered 3 miles and are back home. Those wanting to get fit and healthy are not concerned with how fast they are doing the exercise (as this video demonstrates) but rather just the act of doing the exercise itself and getting it done, and constantly focusing on the finish line is not conducive to that.
I can't do it. Her voice 🙉
Haha
They have full-time jobs to tell us this?
Nice tip, but also unnecessary - as in not strictly necessary, just like a driving ambition to beat your 2km time can propel you along if you can't find a better way.
Yes, 2km run. Actually maybe that should be you 1km run?
And relax! Of course you don't have to run the whole bloody way! Ever! You're welcome to do it if you develop such an inclination, but it's no biggie if you never do.
And now, by these oblique manoevres, I have arrived at the point that makes this presentation, on the whole, destructive, rather than constructive (even though it contains a nice tip for people who've decided to smash some record into the ground until it stops twitching, and can't bleed any more than it has).
Destructive? That sounds a bit harsh. I mean it's the kind of presentation that is more likely to destroy most people who avoid exercise' motivation to ever do so. (It's also destructive, very slightly, in promoting the world view of the people who get things done, these days - because we unfortunately don't have many better ways of achieving this, but I'll leave that version of smashing-to-the-ground out of the rest of this, since it's not a necessary point.)
So now all the Very Clever Children already know the answer to the question, and are waving their hands frantically in the important quest to be The One selected to spit it out to everyone else. Are you one of those Very Clever Children? Or are you a bit slow. Not quite up to scratch. The ones we censor the bad words describing, but not the attitudes that go with the bad words. Since that's probably not possible, since in the end we're all just apes, so one should not expect too much of us - which is a detour to get off right now.
OK you've had enough time to figure out what's wrong with the presentation. Simple: It makes the fundamental mistake of equating "Sport" with "Exercise". Just like our schools do. (Just like people who construct proper sentences do?) It starts that early. We have people to teach the kids "exercise" (well done! what good humans you are!) whose initial qualification for this is that they Love Exercise - the feeling when the ball bangs into the back of the net, the little kick you get when you dribble past the centre forward, the burn and challenge of that marathon. And so on. The logical person to teach exercise is someone who loves sport. Makes sense.
But there's also someone who quickly found out that football is where you stand there while the captains fight over who has to have you on their team. If you look at the number of people taking a run vs the number of people who can find some expression of disgust to condemn this running nonsense when they see a runner, I think you'll find the numbers for whom sport (as in some Athlon) has been a neutral or negative aspect of life are greater than those for whom it was the key to all the doors.
Hey, that's life. Deal with it. Of course. But if you preach exercise to people who know deep down inside that it's "bad", you're wasting your breath, surely?
And the kind of exercise the health profession should be promoting? "Just do it". But that sounds too ambitious. Just do Something.
That's it. Do whaddever; do it regularly; be careful not to overdo it. It's actually *EASY* .
I could go into detail, but I've already gone into much too much detail/ argumentation.
So? Please tell me I smashed that bum idea to pulp (i.e. crushed it). I need your approval.
Maybe this lady should focus her sight on an Amazon page and see how much faster she can order a damn microphone. Then she will sound 30% less like she is talking to us from the shitter.
AWFUL AUDIO Really hard on the ears. I ended up not watching as my ear drums felt like thy were being peforated.
Wow...these seem like some pretty big claims based on a single study using a very small sample set. Can we see the references here...?
Second
The way this woman talks fills me with anxiety and laziness
First.
I don't think you're focused on the right thing.
@@DemPilafian 😁
The only reason the study is worthy of being on BBC is to tell the people how science studies work. otherwise insufficient evidence.
I can corroborate with anecdotal evidence. This video just described how I went from running 100m on the beach a year ago to today running several laps of the whole thing. Start with small goals that are easily visible and charge at them. The ease with which you achieve them spurs you on to set further goals, which are themselves easy to achieve because they're only a bit harder than what you already know you can do and on goes the cycle.
the methodology for this study was dumb
Exactly what quran says.
Asa where bro?