Why It's Ok To Heel Strike! | Running Technique Explained
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- A lot has been said about footstrike, and heel striking in particular. Mostly, that it’s bad - but is it really? How bad is it? The truth is, heel strikers win races. Lots of them! So is it really ok to heel strike when running? James & Heather have been investigating!
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Barefoot. Wearing super supportive shoes and heel strikes were giving me constant plantar fasciitis. Now my feet feel amazing and have more supportive muscles. But also don't do long distance running.
Heel striker for sure. Oddly enough.. all my shoes wear out around the outside edge of the heel 🤷🏽♂️.
Being a heal striker myself and wondering about trying to change this has been a very informative video. The only thing I can say is heal strikers will wear out shoes much faster. I only got 106 miles out of my very comfortable and fast ON Cloudmonster shoes before I wore them down to splitting on the heal.
Can you do a challenge video where you take a professional cyclist, swimmer and runner who only have a basic level of the other sports and ask them do do a triathlon against each other to see which sport is the most important
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It’s important to call out over-striding with a heel strike and the potential dangers. I injured my knee over-striding with a heel strike not realizing I needed to land over a bent knee.
I used to suffer from knee and hip pains as a heal striker. Changed to mid/forefront striking and the pain stopped immediately. It takes a bit of time to adjust to the muscle and tendon demands but I recommend it as long as you build slowly. I think heal striking isn't the culprit per se, but the fact it encourages a straight and locked knee is what caused my injury. If you heal strike, while using the natural shock absorption of muscles and tendons (that we've evolved beautifully over millions of years), you should be ok.
Same here, I had yeh worse problems in my right knee when I started running. Changed to mid foot and they went away. In retrospect I realize, it was most likely due to over striding. However, I’m still glad I switched, works better for my running style
This is whats wrong with this channel. The solution is to change form but the channel wouldve made you buy one of their sponsors
Wow, that video really opened my eyes about foot-strikes! When I first started running, I was a heel-striker and never had any injuries. But then I started hearing all these people saying that fore-striking was better and would save me from injuries, so I tried to change my stride. Big mistake! I ended up with Achilles tendonitis and then shin splints, and had to sit out of my big race. It was so frustrating! Now, I just go with what feels natural and adjust my foot-strike depending on the situation. No more forcing it and no more injuries - I'm injury-free and loving my runs again
omg, me too! I'm a long distance recreational runner and to improve my speed, I recently tried to train for fore-strike and now I'm having my runner's knee back. Big mistake. Should have watched this video first.
@@lm8podtunes324 - The transition (if one wants to do that) needs to be slow. If you demand too much, the parts of the legs that are now being used more for the first time, will be overloaded. Gotta be patient for the weakest links to catch up (or some shit like that). I don't know if this happened to you or not, but yea.
First point of contact does not define it correctly, moment the foot handles the full body weight is what counts. If at that moment your still only on your heel you overstride and cause a breaking effect and massive force in knee and hip.
You missed the key point on this, and that is where, in relation to the hips, the foot strikes the ground. All the video clips in this show runners landing underneath their hips, but what we often see in sessions are inexperienced runners over-striding, landing in front of the hip and therefore hitting the brakes. This is where coaching has changed over the years, as a L3 tri coach I now work on where runners land, rather than which part of the foot hits first, which may be their individual method, based on their own movement patterns. Usually, people running faster, even over 10km, are more mid-forefoot strikers, and as the distance comes down and pace goes up, even more so.
I was all over the place, a ... whatever got me through the run striker :) But your videos (prior videos) helped me convert to more of a forefoot striker, and fixed my cadence etc. I had a lot of knee pain before but your vids got rid of that for me, especially your downhill running vids. Thanks for putting all of this stuff out there for us. Love it!
Thank you for this episode! I’m a midfoot to heel striker who has been trying to change that because the research discouraged heel striking. Now I can just run naturally!
This is becoz today's shoes are so thick and stacked compared to yesteryears trainers which were mostly just a thin layer of foam.. we definitely dont wanna heel strike on those oldschool shoes
Interesting article, not seen anything covering this before so well done team GTN. Coming from an running 800m background I've moved from front to mid foot. Still get the odd Achilles and calf strain so need to keep on with the strength and rehab!
If im sprinting i feel like forefoot helps me, but if im going long distance my heel strike kicks in and it works better.
Your running content is the best on TH-cam, which is doubly impressive given that you're not a channel that's dedicated exclusively to running.
Very informative, especially in regards of changing the stride pattern.
Videos confirm that most in marathon leading groups roll from heel to front while maintaining short contact time, i.e. not overloading joins.
Way back when I was a wee lad I was taught to land on the balls of my feet when running. I’ve always tried to maintain that form. I’ve recently heard that it’s not so much what part of the foot hits the ground, but where the foot is with relation to your knee. That is what I’m currently struggling with.
I'm a little late to the game, but kudos to you for addressing this issue where many people in the minimalist "barefoot" running camp have an almost religious fervor about it. I was caught up in the movement after reading Born To Run, a very entertaining book and compelling. Then, looking at sports medicine articles about running injuries and after my own experience (very dangerous, anecdotes are not data, N of one, etc) with achilles tendonitis starting I had my doubts. I also questioned the veracity of the book after a Nat Geo article came out on the Tarahumara. They are indeed phenomenal runners but do not live almost forever as depicted in the book and the average lifespan is less than in many developed countries (in part due to staggering childhood mortality). When Micah True (Caballo Blanco in the book) died of a cardiac arrest during a training run in his 50's and when articles about the incidence of atrial fibrillation in extreme endurance athletes surfaced I now regard the book as raising certain questions but not scientifically accurate. We are all different and most of us grow up wearing shoes, a definite necessity in the northern climates. Some are genetically built like Mo Farah, others like Pavarotti and most in between and to think that one style fits all would require pretty strong evidence in my opinion. You've gotten a ton of comments contesting your video but I thank you for discussing it.
Very informative video with some great truths in there. Thank you! I can attest that I'm one of those idiots who tried changing from heel strike to fore-strike. I was (wrongly) under the impression that this was a more efficient and safer way to run long distances. I got three things from that experience: plantar fasciitis, multiple calf tears, and new-found knowledge that my "normal" gait and heel strike is safest and most efficient for my bio-mechanics. Lesson learned.
That is my experience also.
The transition (if one wants to do that) needs to be slow. If you demand too much, the parts of the legs that are now being used more for the first time, will be overloaded. Gotta be patient for the weakest links to catch up (or some shit like that). I don't know if this happened to you or not, but yea.
Awesome & Thanks :)
I have always thought my foot strike varies depending on my pace & the gradient. Uphill or faster paces lead to forefoot & vice versa.
Great video GTN. Always informative.
But much more too it than that. It’s not so much the part of the foot that strikes first, it’s WHERE the foot strikes the ground relative to the the body/Centre of mass that’s important.
Ie. In front of the body’s mass will result in more ‘braking/sharing’ forces at foot strike, which can slow the momentum and add braking forces through the knee particularly. Plus increased vertical loads.
Also let’s realize that when we all walk, we all heel strike, and when we all sprint we all fore-foot strike to use the elasticity of the feet, Achilles tendon and windlass mechanism. So every pace in-between those, results in every foot strike in-between, just varying degrees for each person and as we age, it changes too.
Perhaps GTN can cover off some of this stuff too!
I forefoot strike uphill, heel strike downhill, and everything in between depending on distance/gradient/speed. My focus is on soft landings and efficiency rather than worrying too much about toe or heel first as I run Ultras and have to keep going for 100's of km up and down mountain trails. If I was running shorter distances and flat road races I would probably be a lot more focused on foot strike and speed.
This is definitely not OK, "for me." Thanks for sharing the information.
When I look at pictures of me running, it looks like my right foot strike is definitely a heel strike, while the left is more like a midfoot. True or not, I wonder if asymmetries are common and if they are an issue at all.
Question: can you name exercises the make use of the fore foot or heel?
Like A B C D Skips are fore foot. I'm interested in where the focus on the muscles, tendons and coordination is of the exercises used for running. That should say something I guess.
I am a freacking heel-striker who has a tendency to fool-foot strike with a short history of trying to adopt to fore-strike, and still subconsciously using this method running uphill. But my focus actually is on the moment the foot handles the full body weight. 😊
Thanks for this you hear alot about the injury rates in the barefoot shoes community so it's good to know nothing to worry about... As for me I believe I heel strike when walking, Mid strike when running and toe strike with sprinting.
I've never had problems running before but some of my friends suggested to land on my forefoot and just after 2 days of running my calves hurt so much that I had to take 3 rest days cause I can't even stand properly. Was I doing something wrong or is it just because forefoot striking isn't natural for me?
Finally!!!🎉🎉 With so many “better than thou” runners with their pinky in the air calling out heal strikers, this video is so refreshing!!
Thank you, cheers 🍻
You might want to reconsider. Not all heal striking is equal. This video is incorrectly lumping them into one group. Elite runners do not heel strike like average Joes. They are fast and they always make contact either under their bent knee or behind it unlike average Joes who impact in front of the knee and they land with a pretty straight knee. Being fast and striking aft of the knees play important roles in minimizing impact when heel striking. This is what raising the pinking is all about. Do not conflatw elite runners with average Joes because you are talking apples and oranges. This video gets it so so wrong.
Have always been a forefoot striker which I think is because I played football when I was younger which involves short burst of speed where its more natural to be up on your toes. Heal striking feels clumsy and unnatural to me but there are plenty of heal strikers who are better distance runners than me and nothing wrong with it providing you don't over stride.
To me it depends on the distance. Shorter distances I go for speed so mid to forefoot. If the distance is longer I switch to heel strike when I get tired. Even larger distances I alternate.
I started jogging 2 years ago and naturally had a heel strike, at some point I started having knee pains so I looked up forefoot striking and changed to it; but I also changed my shoes to probably better ones. The load on my calves definitely gets felt, but I like it as it’s more of a muscle pain rather than a dangerous joint pain, this aligns with what the video says about the changing loads, but not really the injury risks as I feel much better with forefoot striking and my times have also improved. How much that’s due to the foot strikes or the shoes is debatable, though; I might’ve been fine keeping a heel strike and just changing my shoes maybe. End point a load on your calves is much better than a load on your knees (or hips) in terms of injuries though, even if your calves do get injured more often, it’s not gonna be a serious injury.
Can’t wait to get new shoes!
Damn Vaporfly's heels wear out quicker than the midfoot and forefoot. That's why I changed my strikes.
In 1960 Abebe bikila won the Rome marathon with bare foot, now imagine him being a heel striker on a pavement.
i'm 45 i am just starting to run, i feel so hard to change my foot strike to a proper one, whenever i use middle foot to land, my pace tend to increase so does my hr
How bad is heel strike? Really really bad if you've got crappy joints! Everyone I've ever talked to who has gone through the considerable effort of relearning how to run
a) didn't do it because heel striking was working so darned well they thought "let's introduce a new variable!" They did it because their body obviously could not take the impact from heel striking
b) fore-foot running solved the issue. Now I'll concede that the people for whom it didn't solve the issue probably just gave up at that point and are unfortunately no longer in our community, but the point remains, it solved the issue for a great many of us whom I've talked to!
4 years ago I couldn't run 5km consistently without having knee injuries: last Saturday I finished my second marathon (5th running of the Qingdao Marathon) in a time of 3:39.
If you're having joint issueswhen you run, STOP HEEL RUNNING!
Yes, I was having hip and knee pain with a midfoot strike, until my aunt taught me how to do a proper forefoot strike.
it does not really matter what strike you run as long as you land your foot over your center of gravity. usually off balance body positioin and low cadence is the main reason for typical runners injuries. the thing is that people who are changing their running style to a mid footstrike will have to pay more attention to their body position and usually have to shorten their stride lenght to land on the mid foot which simultaneously is rising their cadence having them to run a better technique without them even noticing.
Heel strike is good: me with inflammation in my left knee😂
a) It is about understanding the terms used together. If the heel just touches the ground slightly, and under a slightly bent knee the foot rolls through on its outer edge, you feel that it's good and you are doing right. - But it would be wrong if the viewer now lets himself be seduced into the really wrong overstriding. b) It's natural for me to switch between forefoot and midfoot adapted to the situation and my strength. When I'm really exhausted, I also roll over the heel, as I said at the beginning. c) But whether forefoot, metatarsal or heel run: always emphasising the outer edge of the foot! Here in the video you can see many feet putting on as if the people filmed had never heard anything about the meaning and usefulness of the lower (!) ankle joint. If the forefoot picks up like this, there's got to be some damage. If you're not running at the top of the world with carbon soles, the point of first ground contact is at the metatarsal head of the fifth beam, so where the small toe attaches to the metatarsal. I'm in my 67th year, and I know something about the subject.
Put in a pair of ear buds with no sound and then see which one has impact vibrations and which one doesn't.
Learn to do both, reduces injury by altering the loads on different training days and speeds.
Mind you, in answer to the question "what type of runner are you?"
My answer is....slow.
Most important point is not overstriding. You can land anywhere on your foot as long as it is natural and comfortable for you. Some people rigidly think people should only run on their fore foot or midfoot. These people probably never ran or ran only on flat surfaces. They should try running very slowly down a steep incline. See if you can do that without using your heels. Even some world champions run with heel strikes
Depends on my speed, while running slow I heel strike, normal speed middle or heel, fast forefoot.
I don’t need to analyze my run. I am a heel striker. I can see it on the wear of my shoes. It is a problem because my shoes look like new but the heels wear out very quickly.
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Busted a few myths with this one. Thank you Heather and James.
All I know is that heel striking is not natural now if you’re being hard core about it brushing your teeth is not natural either. So I don’t know but I do know that strengthening the foot prevents injury, and barefoot is a good way to strengthen the foot, and if you heal strike barefoot is flippin hurts.
High sugar diet ain't natural either
I've always been a heel striker and I've never had a running injury
I suffer from horrendous shin splints. I've bought some barefoot shoes and going to actively try moving from a heel strike to a midfoot strike. Anybody had any similar stories?
In my experience, shin splints are due to over-striding with your foot landing too far out in front of your center of gravity. To keep your forefoot from "slapping" down every time you land, the muscles in front of your shin "pull back" the front of your foot. These shin muscles are not designed for this type of repetitive load. Try this drill: Run barefoot or with socks on grass at your long distance pace. Pay attention to your cadence and foot placement. Then try to emulate this same form when running with shoes on pavement. You should find your cadence quicken and your stride shorten. Your arm swing will most likely have less motion as your hands are tucked up under your armpits.
Starting out, wear the barefoot shoes for very short distances. As was said in the video, most injuries occur when attempting to change your stride. When I changed my stride, it took my 2 months to "unlearn" my overstriding form.
The new book Born to Run 2 has information on this. The back has a guide for exercises and advice for shin splints etc as well as leg strengthening, form and a 90 day plan to get started.
@@TadeuszCantwell Ordered the book. Thank you
@@masonv45 thanks for the advice!
Actually the proper technique is skimming. that means, making initial contact with the heel, but very lightly and letting the foot roll forward onto the ball. the sensation would be that the foot feels as if it is sliding backwards. striking firmly with the heel is very bad for the knees, hips, lower and mid back.
Kinda confused when u are heel strike and at the same time underpronation
Stop talking about how your foot strikes, it’s irrelevant. What IS relevant is WHERE your foot lands. In some of your close up shots showing that it’s “OK” the foot is landing ahead of your center of gravity. That’s just inefficient and sloppy form.
university of bath..... spent 4 years there ill never get back
2:15 how is getting insoles more cost effective if a video assessment is free?
GCN is referring to a "video analysis" which is done, usual, by a professional in a lab setting. Where your biomechanics are analysed. Some local running shops can do a variation of this analysis too. These both involve some form of trained person analyzing your running which is usually a paid service or part of a buying something else. This is different than a friend filming you for free.
I like how they are comparing elite runners with recreational ones. It's like saying: professional drivers in sports cars wear helmet during the race so you should also wear one in your everyday drive inside your family Toyota.
What works for elite runners doesn't necessary translate to recreational runner.
It is insane to compare these two and thus advise anyone.
heel strike ftw!
There is a reason why we heel strike when we walk and all sprinters use their front foot, not heel. You just do not have a speed with heel strike and it's often causing you to get wrong position when running(over-striding). If you can run while heel striking and injury free - good for you but most of the people don't. Many people think they should run exactly the same as they walk and this is why heel striking is so popular.
Honestly, the only reason people heel strike when walking is because they buy shoes with big padded heels. If you walk barefoot, you will never heel strike because it is both painful and unnatural. The human foot is not designed to heel strike and "rock" as they so claim in this video. That is complete rubbish. We can do it with shoes because of their design, but our feet were never designed to rock. The ball of our feet was not designed so we could land on it only, and then rock forward as this video tries to imply. It's a ball shape for the express purpose of allowing our foot to roll around to find the most surface area. A flat heel would not allow the foot the dexterity that it has like when you wall on roots barefooted. I realized I sprained my ankles so much on shoes because it has no ability to conform to a non-uniform surface unlike your bare feet. The can hug rocks, roots, handle crevices, and whatever you throw at it without rolling your ankles. Ever since I went minimalists with cheap Walmart eva sandals, my running form changed and I no longer worry about rolling my angles no matter the terrain I run in. It's so liberating. This heel strike thing is definitely being incorrectly represented here as noted per my long post above.
Edit: To heel strike and have the heel act like a "rocker" is not a natural walk. You can only achieve that barefoot if you exaggerate your step and really reach out in front. When you do, it will cause you to lean the upper body back which is not a normal walk.
That dude has a thick south african accent😂
My Aunt taught me to front strike to avoid knee and hip pain. Before that I was a mid foot striker. To me the knee and hip pain was much worse than any ankle pain.
100% heel strike.
Very slow running heel striker like given.
I completely disagree with this video and would urge people to not heel strike because it's more complex than simply striking the heel or not. I can say this because I used to heel strike with running shoes and it would cause me a lot of knee pain especially when I was running hard. I was very athletic in my youth so I never felt it, but when I got to my mid 30's and 40's, the knee pains were real. Then I discovered "Born to run" and went minimalist(running barefoot and on cheap Walmart EVA sandals) and I realized why I was killing my joints. It was the barefoot/minimalist running that allowed me to keep running when $200 dollar running shoes were killing my joints. Yes, some elite distance runners heel strike, buuuuuut, they do not heel strike like the out of shape or inexperienced, non-athletic heel strikers do. If you watch Mo Farah and Paul Tergat, you can see that they heel/midfoot strike but the key difference is their foot is almost always under or behind their knee and their knees are always in a bent position. This is why they can do it and it be okay. The other aspect is velocity. They are literally flying when they run. The majority of heel strikers are unfit slow runners who are not very athletic to begin with so velocity is not something they have. If you're physics person, all of this will make sense, but if you're not, it probably won't. Their velocity helps in two ways. First and foremost, it keeps them from over striding. They aren't trying to get faster by taking longer strides like average Joe. When they make the kick forward, their knees remain bent. Average Joe fully extends his knee and impacts with this foot ahead of his knee, a very, very bad thing. Moe Farah and Paul Tergat, impact with their foot behind their bent knees. Why is this important? Because it greatly reduces the force on the knee and the rest of the body. It's just a simple matter of physics. Our bodies have joints at the knee and ankle which allows the different parts of the legs to rotate and depending on the angles they form at the moment of impact determines how the forces will be distributed to their body. Remember, our elite runners have high velocities(very fast compared to average Joe). They also almost always have their knees bent and when they strike the ground, their foot is always under or behind the knee. These two elements ensure minimal impact to he body because one, as the foot strikes, it's forward motion is stopped, but not the calf above it and not the thy above the knee and not the upper body. Because the foot is beneath the knee, the calf forms an acute(less than 90) angle with respect to the ground. As the upper body and thy continue to move pass the calf due to the calf slowing down as a result of the foot striking, they impart a force to the very top of the knee pushing it forward. Because it was already in an acute angle, it does not resist this forward motion of the upper body and thy. What we have is a seamless flow of motion. The foot strikes stopping it's forward momentum, which is converted to angular momentum rotating the calf with the forward momentum of the body keeping energy loss and impact to a minimum. Note, the bent knee plays a big role in reducing impact forces. Their fast velocity rotates the body quickly over the planted foot, keeping load on it for a very short period. Before you know it, the foot is behind the body's center of mass and has switched it's role from doing work against gravity to keep the body up to, doing work to accelerate the body forward. For these elite runners, this transition is very, very fast and is done under optimal conditions.
Now let's analyze Average Joe who's velocity is probably not even 1/4th of these elite runners. When he strides forward, he extends his reach because he thinks it's going to make him faster. He fully extends his knee so that his leg is straight and impacts the ground with his heels, but his toe is sort of pointing up and his foot impacts in of his knee which is not bent much at all so that instead of forming an acute angle relative to the ground in front of him like Mo Fara and Paul Tergat, his calf forms an obtuse(greater than 90 degrees) with the ground in front of him. In this configuration, per Newton's third law, as his foot impacts the ground, it imparts a force at an angle to the ground and the ground imparts a force in the same direction at his body. If we look at the force vector of the ground pushing on Average Joe, we see that it is point back at him at some acute angle, the perfect angle to impart a great deal of force on him to increase the impact he feels and to slow him down considerably. Remember, his force vector from the ground points through his calves up and back towards him. Just imagine running into a spear that's point at you. Moe and Paul's force Vector, because the calf is bent forward at an acute angle relative to the ground ensures that the force the ground imparts on them points forward and away from them. It has a vertical component which is what holds the body up AND, a horizontal component in the forward direction helping the body to move forward. Average Joe's has a component up and to the rear, impeding his forward momentum. This is where heel strikes become bad and the majority of people who heel strike have a tendency to over stride because they believe it makes them faster instead of just increasing their cadence. To get their feet under their body so it can do work via a push to move their body forward, the calf bones(tibia and fibula) must first, move like an arc, first rising up in an arc and then peak, and back down in an arc. This up motion takes time, and induces a great deal of force on the joints and the body in general because the body has to fight this to go forward. It literally has to climb a hill befor going forward where as Moe and Pual's arch starts at some point and just arcs down because their calf was pointed in the forward position, not in the aft position. IE, their feet struck the ground behind their knee, not in front of it. And for this reason, no, you cannot point to elite athletes and say, "Hey, look, Paul Tergat and Mo Farah do it and they are elite athletes so you can to." This is so, so wrong in my opinion. You are comparing apples to oranges. They are totally different physical specimens who experience what appears on the surface to the same thing, but in reality, are two totally series of events. One is okay, and the other, if not.
Lastly, this "heel rocker" claim is total rubbish as that's not how the heel was mechanically designed to function. It was not rounded so we could "rock" on our heels as we take strides. Go ahead, take your shoes off and try to rock and roll on your heel and see how well that goes. Even when we take big strides, our ankles compensate by rotating to keep our fee flat to the ground. Out body is mechanically designed to land in such a way that it distributes the force over as large an area as possible. It was never designer to land rocker style. Just try to rocker once with your heel. The only way it can be achieved is to land such that your feet and toes are pointed up into the air and not parallel to the ground. Do this a couple of times so you can "rock around" and you'll soon realize, this is total rubbish because it's super painful given the fact, the weight of your body is now concentrated in a very small rocker. No need to argue with me. Just go rock around a bit and you'll see. Rocking about is only possible with biggo beefed up raised heel shoes and it works because literally, your "rocker" the heel of your feet is no where near the ground when this rocking process starts. This big raised platform becomes your rocker's extension to the ground. By itself, "rocking" on your heels is just gibberish because it is an absolutely unnatural position for the human foot.
The key here is this video is conflating heel "rocker" when walking to to heel "rocker" when running as being the same but they are completely wrong. There's a major difference between running and walking and it's that when you walk, one foot is always on the ground supporting the body up. When running, the push leg catapults the body up while the lead leg is still in the air. This means at some point, the entire body is air-born. Because of this, any attempt to try to land on your heel(when running) like you do when you walk and take larger than normal steps, will be very painful and can easily blow your knee. When we heel strike walking, the pushing leg carries the brunt of the bodies load and only fully transfers it to the lead lead when the foot has flattened out. It does not transfer the full load to the heel at the time of impact. It rolls until the midfoot contacts that ground and then it starts to take on the full load of the body. Another key difference is that when walking and heel striking, the let is pretty much straight as this is the only way to make contact with the heel at a high enough point to allow it to roll/rock like they claim. Landing hard on your heel with a locked straight knees while running is the perfect recipe for blowing one's knees out. These two events, though in appearance, they appear to be the same(heel strike/rocker), but if you scrutinize it, you see they are two very, very different things and NO elite athletes' heel strikes are nothing like this walking heel strike. It's a shame they can't see that these two things are totally unrelated and as such, should never be treated as one, which is what this video is trying to do.
Best footstrike? Take off your shoes and run barefoot, you'll find out 👌
But I don't run bare feet
if you run barefoot on asphalt you forefootstrike, but if you run on grass you heelstrike. The ground matters
i neither
I am a runner, not a striker. Natural runner... 😊
@@TroyQwert natural would be completely barefoot I assume
"the forefoot strike is associated with greater loads going through the ankle" is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard, and it's obvious why you haven't provided any sources for that statement
Very little research was done. Please don't push stuff just to get more views and money. I've been a triathlon coach for around 7 years and have thoroughly studied running biomechanics. What's the problem with this video?
1. Muscle recruitment: A forefoot/mid-foot strike is required to stimulate your glutes during jogging. When you strike with your heels, you just use your quadriceps and very little of your hamstrings or glutes.
2. It is more important to consider where the foot lands than where it strikes the ground. It should be near your body. If you move it away from your body, you will disrupt the rhythm.
3. Efficient running is similar to cycling. Make little circles on the outer knee to complete it.
4. To enhance biomechanics Barefooting is essential. It teaches your body how to land properly and strengthens your limbs. It is sufficient to do this at least once a week for 20 minutes.
If a debate is required, I am willing to participate.
Your incompetence amazes me!!
I disagree, heel strike caused back pain for me.
Everyone is different. I ran most of my life on my heels except when i am sprinting. I dont have any pain.
Many drunk people drive succesfully home. This doesn't mean that driving drunk is ok. Heel strike is simply a mistake that some lazy runners are not willing to correct. In the end, running is something that anyone can do, it doesn't need a technique, right? No! It needs a techinque like every other sport. Don't be lazy and struggle to learn it and apply it correctly.
We get it you idolize Born to Run. No need to gatekeep running form. Not everything needs to be the most effecting, optimized, or "perfect technique." People can enjoy participating in a sport for the sport. From your remarks, that's probably not you and that's okay. Everyone is participating in running for their own reasons. As long as they are doing it safely (which heel sticking is, so long as it not an over stride), just chill out and let people be. Side note, equating drunk driving to heel striking is a wildly hyperbolic analogy lol
@@mrpoutine6588 You are right, it is an hyperbolic comparison, but I'm not completely convinced that heel strike can be really safe, especially when high volume and medium-heavy weight are involved. For me correct technique is much more about long term safety rather than about performance.
Very bad video, full of misinformation.
So many experts in the comment section 😂