Thanks. Best video I've come across on form analysis. Instead of all the BS on how to achieve the high kick, the "high kick is the byproduct of running faster" tells me exactly what I need to know. So what I really need to focus on are my leg muscles and endurance, instead of trying to focus on some correct form I need to be in when I run. I'll deliberately try to run faster in my next 10 km run to see how that changes my form.
i think focusing on form is something every runner should do. however, the kick height is nothing you have to focus on because "high kick is the byproduct of running faster"
Thank you for explaining this difference between elite runners and the rest of us. I was wondering about high kicks and now I understand more about what is happening. You probably prevented me from trying to force a high kick; I will stick to improving my overall form and speed.
I learned a few things, and having been with GTN since its inception I can appreciate the fact that you still manage to find new subjects to explore - and this a highly relevant one! High five
Thank you, Heather. As a new runner I watch other runners for tips including speed and the height of their kick. This helps to know which comes first! I think your form is something to aim for I’ve watched a few of your videos now.
Timing is crucial - you can achieve high heel only at sufficient high cadence + running speed. It is all about syncro of both limbs. Watch slow-mo of Kipchoge's running..
I started incorporating a better heel-lift into my running recently because I knew it was better form than "dragging" my leg through the stride. I did notice a bit of a speed and efficiency increase on my runs but I had no idea why. This is an awesome explanation and blew my mind a bit. Also, nice ON running shoes :)
This was really helpful. Seems to me the high heel kick is essentially a side effect of efficient running form. I'm so slow it doesn't come into play but I've noticed that as I push my mileage up there are efficiency benefits my body does naturally. This appears to be one for faster runners.
Thank you so much on this video, I have been trying to correct my running from for ages, saw many video on youtube, until I watched this one, this one bring up a crucial point..I was wrong all the time, I did raise knee first then heel kick/lift, I did a few run to experience the heel lift before raise the knee, I found my legs are lighter...more feeling in my hamstring and gluteus!
My favourite is Frodeno. We are similar build and he shows that you dont necessarily need to have an insanely high kick and cadence to be an amazing runner. Those things will depend greatly on your anatomy and its perhaps better to concentrate on running that feels smooth for you, especially if you have no pain because of it, even if your smoothest running doest fall into "the perfect running technique"
This is so handy! Thanks, to be honest I enjoy watching Eliud Kipchoge running, but also watching at you guys, I've learnt a lot about technique watching your videos
Really helpful video. I've been trying to incorporate a Kipchoge/Cheptegei-style "butt kick" into my form, but it feels forced, especially when I'm running slowly. Now, I'll try and focus on the knee drive, and let the physics take care of itself. Thank you GTN.
Thank you Heather and thank you GTN for producing these high quality, information packed videos. I have learned so much from many of them. The higher kick instead of my "shuffle" is my next focus. 👍
Interesting. I tried your suggestion to experiment. For faster running the heel came up easier, but I found it more fatiguing as a new runner, than the easy, slow jog I normally use, without any kick up, which when I tried to do it felt awkward at that slow trot. Therefore, it’s a natural occurrence the faster you go I am supposing.
One of your best running videos Heather. I was trying to high kick, but without knowing what I was doing. I think you just help me PR my run event😃 . Thank you!
Just continue wondering and don't go out to run....like twice a day.......and don't do 100+miles running/week.....just keep wondering..................
Great video, totally hadn’t thought about the leverage aspect. For all these mechanics it’s hard to know which way the causality goes - do elites kick high because they the go very fast, or do they go very fast because they kick high? Same for having a fast cadence
Really great explanation. I've heard the lever science before about running, but your explanation really helped me understand just exactly what the implications are. Thank you! Great video!
TL;DW: when running faster, focus foremost on the rate of your knee drive and then, as a natural result, the feet will flick up higher. It's actually not really a "kick" (as that would be more of a hamstring curl). It's more of a knee pull. Metaphor: the connection between the hip and the knee is the handle of a whip, while the foot is merely its tail; the force of the whip comes from working the handle.
What I learned is that I have to stop thinking about my running cadence. Our brain do all the calibrations and it depends on various things like pace, strength, body type, leg length, fatigue etc. A cadence good for another person doesn't mean it's good for you too. Same goes for heart rate, both depends on the person.
There is no question, there is running on different levels...............struggler, jogger, runner, racer, elite racer......simple as that................
I saw Jakob Ingebrigtsen in a road race 5 k here in Oslo. The course was very hilly. This was not a top race for Jakob, so he had no competition for top place. Probably didnt go all out. I stood at about 3 km in one of the hills. What suprised me was: 1. There was no sound from him, no breathing, no shoes hitting the ground. Completely quiet. 2. He seemed to almost float or glide by, as if there was complete perfect efficiency. No energy at all lost.
i think the biggest take away from this is that this is the technique that you'll see PROFESSIONAL runners using. Not only that but a lot of this footage is taken at the end of the race when many of them are sprinting. will kicking higher cause your stride length to increase? yes. and obviously if you're maintaining your cadence this will result in increased speed. however for the casual runner or triathlete this is not a technique i personally would recommend, and certainly not one i personally would adopt at the beginning of my 20+ mile runs.
@@heatherfell_oly my comment wasn't meant as an admonishment, you just presented a lot of information and people might have been a bit confused. people, especially those in america, are always looking for a quick fix or some kind of "exploit" and many do so by mimicking professional athletes. i personally realize that you weren't advocating such an approach, you always fell back in the "do what's natural" approach, i just wanted to make sure no-one misunderstood the purpose of the video. on a side note, i've attempted to force this technique in my own runs and find the increase in my HR disproportionate to the increase in my pace, either i'm doing it wrong or i'm just not running fast enough to benefit from it
I guess that's what's naturally happening, when you actually start "running". I've yet to find someone doing the "butt kick", when on a slow run. For me personally there's a certain level of effort involved when my legs go that high. And indeed I'd need to have a certain pace, to actually have some "effort". For slow runs I'm making darn sure to not raise my legs to high at all, simply because I want to run as energy effective as possible, for as long as possible. And for that I would usually try to keep my feet close to the floor, doing quick steps with low frequency.
Thanks for this excellent video. I am a 5k [ aspiring to > 10k ] runner and at my present pace, I have virtually no leg kick. Am I correct in concluding that by simply running with greater pace and stride that the kick will come too? I have looked as a number of videos, but your description is best. Can you suggest strength/stamina or other videos that will help me get to use techniques. Cheers.
Was watching a high class 400m race the other day where they were doing 48 seconds and really noticed this! I then looked at a video of my somewhat slower "sprints" and kind of realised one of the reasons I am not as fast!
I couldn't disagree with this more. For me, it is the posterior chain you should be thinking about most during your stride, not the front of the leg. You should be focusing on activating your posterior chain (glutes, hamstrings, achilles) to push off the ground from your standing foot which will in turn promote maximum extension out the back end of your stride. It is this motion that should give you the feeling of pushing yourself forcefully forward using your posterior chain rather than the feeling of pulling yourself forward with your quads and front of the leg. With good back extension, the natural kinetic energy will feed forward on the front end of the stride to help move your knee up (in addition to the action of your hip flexor and quads). Obviously it's a combination of both front and back of stride but I think focusing on the posterior chain through strengthening and activation exercises will improve your running efficiency to the greatest degree. Your glutes are the strongest muscle in your body. Use them.
I suspect high kick during running is correlated to high flexibility of the knee joints and muscles of the thighs. In Kung Fu leg and hip flexibility contributes to the power of the kicks.
Hi-Can you please tell exactly which stretches I should do to be able to do a high kick-I used to be able to run fast, but now due to years of sitting and also hiking repeats on stairs, I have very tight legs, hips. I for instance can't sit on my heels, even if I put a pillow under my butt. So, which stretches should we focus on? Thanks
To me its more like a training for being as fast as possible.. the shoes are also part of key factor to form ur running.. wear minimalist shoes therefore u feel the ground a lot more.. and just sprint it for lets say.. 10 seconds up hill.. down hill.. and flat roads.. and i dont really care much about high heel kicks..
You say near the end you don't practice high kick. Instead it just comes naturally. Why not recommend stretching to enable a high kick as a very important part of training?
Because if you run a 4 minute mile, it will come naturally. The faster you go, the higher it will kick. In my experience, "practicing a high kick" is asking for one of two outcomes. Either you are going to wear yourself out with very little gain overall OR you are going to injure yourself because you are over extending.
@@heatherfell_oly Perhaps I'm looking at it from an age perspective. In your 20s and 30s you don't really notice flexibility being an issue. In your 40s and 50s it starts to become an issue. In your 60s and 70s you no longer can take it for granted and need to actually work on it.
This is mostly false. The only true statement about kicking your heel up is the shortening of length of the leg and having your hips using less energy to swing your legs forward. But that's it.That's as far as the truth goes. High heel kicks is a byproduct of strength running and it is not something that is intentionally done. The amount of force a person exerts on the ground to propel themselves forward and the transfer of energy from one leg up the hip and unto the other leg gives the heel flick effect. It is also the result of efficient running and not the other way around. As in you don't forcibly heel flick to become efficient but rather you train with this type of stride/cadence in order to become more efficient with this style of kicking. The reason why all elite runners have this heel kick is because they have to train this way in order to maximize their distance per step coupled with their ideal cadence. This optimizes the "speed" of a runner. So, does heel kicking make you more efficient? No. Does it make you faster? Yes. Two completely different things and they should not be confused as being synonymous. There are two things that will improve your time and that assuming that you have excellent aerobic base - that is stride length (which results in high heel flicking) and the cadence at which you run these strides. And to improve either requires more strength in the legs.
Mm.. it seem to me that literally every technical aspect of running - high kick, contact time, vertical oscillation, stride length, cadence are all consequences of running pace not determinants. When I run faster, all these aspects improve unconsciously. Trying to improve them consciously makes no difference..
Kicking high like this does get my heart rate to increase and also my breathing so this is for faster speed and so, not for daily running slow milage. Oh it is said it at the END of the video, while I was going to exit the video LOL
Any actual elite runners though? Say like sub 2:10 men or sub 2:30 women in the marathon? The ones you mention are top class long distance triathletes of course but not in pure running terms.
@@TimGrose Hi Tim lots of studies done on this this is one: 60% of high level athletes running road race (even international elites) are heel strikers... (Note that they all use "racers" running shoes with heel-toe vertical drop of 4-10mm ... a technical aspect of the shoe that promotes heel striking!)... but 90% of track athletes are forefoot strikers.
@@TimGrose LINK: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspor.2020.00102/full New research has shown that there were more similarities than differences between heel-strikers and those who land on the midfoot or forefoot. Specifically this was with World Championship marathon runners.
It actually has nothing to do with being able to run fast. I have seen some people who seems to be draging legs behind barely lifting them while still running 2:40/km pace. They are all milers and unless they are finishing in 52s lap they dont seem to be running fast.
SO MANY UA-cam running advisers use to recommend the high heel kick like it wasn't something natural and product of the speed/intensity. Thanks for fighting disinformation.
Yeah right if you train very often on the track... A lot of speed endurance, drills, and long runs.. Always if u train right and you're body can handle it.. Youre stride gonne improve
I’ve been thinking about this for a while and tried it at lower speeds and haven’t found any differences in say heart rate for the technique you describe at the same speed. It seems maybe the energy efficiency increase by shortening the lever is offset by the extra energy exerted by flicking your heels higher so neutralises itself to no benefit. So I think the result is just run naturally. Your body will find it’s position. Anyone else come to this conclusion?
No, the difference is their training, they run 100+ miles in a week and do also a lot of intervals, and they do this for decades, and the rest of the running community half of that at best...................simple as that....................no need to overthink this or over explain............
Good video. Explains things really well. Meanwhile "the running channel" is doing another cack video on "10 things you do when you're a runner" And CONSTANTLY begging people to subscribe!
Can't help but jump in because it drives me mad that they not only constantly beg but do so at the very beginning of the video in a fixed scripted form!
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Thanks. Best video I've come across on form analysis. Instead of all the BS on how to achieve the high kick, the "high kick is the byproduct of running faster" tells me exactly what I need to know. So what I really need to focus on are my leg muscles and endurance, instead of trying to focus on some correct form I need to be in when I run. I'll deliberately try to run faster in my next 10 km run to see how that changes my form.
i think focusing on form is something every runner should do. however, the kick height is nothing you have to focus on because "high kick is the byproduct of running faster"
Thank you for explaining this difference between elite runners and the rest of us. I was wondering about high kicks and now I understand more about what is happening. You probably prevented me from trying to force a high kick; I will stick to improving my overall form and speed.
I tried it and it inmediately felt unnatural and inefficient
I learned a few things, and having been with GTN since its inception I can appreciate the fact that you still manage to find new subjects to explore - and this a highly relevant one! High five
The new subjects are very interesting. I've learned so much from watching these videos.
Thanks, we like to keep searching for new topics too, keeps us all interested.
Thank you, Heather. As a new runner I watch other runners for tips including speed and the height of their kick. This helps to know which comes first! I think your form is something to aim for I’ve watched a few of your videos now.
Thanks for breaking it down for noobs like us because I was just going to get shorts muddy while trying do heel kicks
Timing is crucial - you can achieve high heel only at sufficient high cadence + running speed. It is all about syncro of both limbs. Watch slow-mo of Kipchoge's running..
I started incorporating a better heel-lift into my running recently because I knew it was better form than "dragging" my leg through the stride. I did notice a bit of a speed and efficiency increase on my runs but I had no idea why. This is an awesome explanation and blew my mind a bit. Also, nice ON running shoes :)
This was really helpful. Seems to me the high heel kick is essentially a side effect of efficient running form. I'm so slow it doesn't come into play but I've noticed that as I push my mileage up there are efficiency benefits my body does naturally. This appears to be one for faster runners.
Thank you! I've been wondering about the high heel lift for so long
Thank you so much on this video, I have been trying to correct my running from for ages, saw many video on youtube, until I watched this one, this one bring up a crucial point..I was wrong all the time, I did raise knee first then heel kick/lift, I did a few run to experience the heel lift before raise the knee, I found my legs are lighter...more feeling in my hamstring and gluteus!
You explained that so clearly in a really lively and engaging way. Brilliant!
My favourite is Frodeno. We are similar build and he shows that you dont necessarily need to have an insanely high kick and cadence to be an amazing runner. Those things will depend greatly on your anatomy and its perhaps better to concentrate on running that feels smooth for you, especially if you have no pain because of it, even if your smoothest running doest fall into "the perfect running technique"
so the high kick back is naturally from the speed when i run or i need to kick higher when i run ?, but when i running on pace 6 its hard to kick high
This is so handy! Thanks, to be honest I enjoy watching Eliud Kipchoge running, but also watching at you guys, I've learnt a lot about technique watching your videos
Thanks Herold, we certainly enjoy watching Kipchoge run too.
Heather 🤗
Really helpful video. I've been trying to incorporate a Kipchoge/Cheptegei-style "butt kick" into my form, but it feels forced, especially when I'm running slowly. Now, I'll try and focus on the knee drive, and let the physics take care of itself. Thank you GTN.
I would say just run a lot and your body will figure out the most efficient form naturally
@@Skiier5728 If only it were that simple!
Henry Bonsu I feel like it can be. High mileage runners have better strides because they have had more time for the body to adapt
@@Skiier5728 Well, I suppose you're right. There's no short cut. Gotta put in those long miles.
Great, good luck with the technique.
Thank you Heather and thank you GTN for producing these high quality, information packed videos. I have learned so much from many of them. The higher kick instead of my "shuffle" is my next focus. 👍
Good luck with it. :)
Interesting. I tried your suggestion to experiment. For faster running the heel came up easier, but I found it more fatiguing as a new runner, than the easy, slow jog I normally use, without any kick up, which when I tried to do it felt awkward at that slow trot. Therefore, it’s a natural occurrence the faster you go I am supposing.
Really clear, insightful and practical. Best running video I’ve ever seen. Well done and thanks.
Thanks John
One of your best running videos Heather. I was trying to high kick, but without knowing what I was doing. I think you just help me PR my run event😃 . Thank you!
Oh great, thanks for sharing :)
i love this type of video
very useful and informative
thanks GTN!!
Ohhh yeah, how you gonna use it?????
I am trying to lose and weight and starting ruining she made it looks so easy I learn something.. might try this later on
Thank you. Another brilliant vid. I've been wondering about this for ages.
Just continue wondering and don't go out to run....like twice a day.......and don't do 100+miles running/week.....just keep wondering..................
Great information as always. Thank you!
Really informative - basically drive that knee forward and your ankle will tuck in automatically as its dragged forward.
Great video, totally hadn’t thought about the leverage aspect. For all these mechanics it’s hard to know which way the causality goes - do elites kick high because they the go very fast, or do they go very fast because they kick high? Same for having a fast cadence
A hard one to measure, but it won't be something they think about whilst running.
Really great explanation. I've heard the lever science before about running, but your explanation really helped me understand just exactly what the implications are. Thank you! Great video!
Great, it was a hard one to explain without having a skeleton to demo.
Thank you for this. Im gonna try this on my next run out of curiosity.
TL;DW: when running faster, focus foremost on the rate of your knee drive and then, as a natural result, the feet will flick up higher. It's actually not really a "kick" (as that would be more of a hamstring curl). It's more of a knee pull. Metaphor: the connection between the hip and the knee is the handle of a whip, while the foot is merely its tail; the force of the whip comes from working the handle.
Apt timing got a stride session today will be concious of all the information shared on this one
Thank you. All of your videos are great. God bless you live long
Thank you Heather for taking the time to explain this. Very informative. i like the marathon shuffle ;-)
My pleaseure.
@@heatherfell_oly would love to have you on as guest on my UA-cam/podcast. What you say Heather?
Thank You!
Well done, Heather. What one gets from an Olympic medalist.
🙂
A pointless video for 7 minutes...............
Thanks. Great information 👌
What I learned is that I have to stop thinking about my running cadence. Our brain do all the calibrations and it depends on various things like pace, strength, body type, leg length, fatigue etc. A cadence good for another person doesn't mean it's good for you too. Same goes for heart rate, both depends on the person.
Amazing video. Thanks
I have always wondered about this question! Thanks for the answers
There is no question, there is running on different levels...............struggler, jogger, runner, racer, elite racer......simple as that................
Very well explained. 👍
I saw Jakob Ingebrigtsen in a road race 5 k here in Oslo. The course was very hilly. This was not a top race for Jakob, so he had no competition for top place. Probably didnt go all out. I stood at about 3 km in one of the hills. What suprised me was: 1. There was no sound from him, no breathing, no shoes hitting the ground. Completely quiet. 2. He seemed to almost float or glide by, as if there was complete perfect efficiency. No energy at all lost.
i think the biggest take away from this is that this is the technique that you'll see PROFESSIONAL runners using. Not only that but a lot of this footage is taken at the end of the race when many of them are sprinting. will kicking higher cause your stride length to increase? yes. and obviously if you're maintaining your cadence this will result in increased speed. however for the casual runner or triathlete this is not a technique i personally would recommend, and certainly not one i personally would adopt at the beginning of my 20+ mile runs.
Hence why I covered the fact you need to look at what running you're doing and it's not something you can force.
@@heatherfell_oly my comment wasn't meant as an admonishment, you just presented a lot of information and people might have been a bit confused. people, especially those in america, are always looking for a quick fix or some kind of "exploit" and many do so by mimicking professional athletes. i personally realize that you weren't advocating such an approach, you always fell back in the "do what's natural" approach, i just wanted to make sure no-one misunderstood the purpose of the video.
on a side note, i've attempted to force this technique in my own runs and find the increase in my HR disproportionate to the increase in my pace, either i'm doing it wrong or i'm just not running fast enough to benefit from it
I guess that's what's naturally happening, when you actually start "running". I've yet to find someone doing the "butt kick", when on a slow run. For me personally there's a certain level of effort involved when my legs go that high. And indeed I'd need to have a certain pace, to actually have some "effort". For slow runs I'm making darn sure to not raise my legs to high at all, simply because I want to run as energy effective as possible, for as long as possible. And for that I would usually try to keep my feet close to the floor, doing quick steps with low frequency.
"doing qick steps with low frequency"? that's very hard to do 😅
Thanks for this excellent video. I am a 5k [ aspiring to > 10k ] runner and at my present pace, I have virtually no leg kick. Am I correct in concluding that by simply running with greater pace and stride that the kick will come too? I have looked as a number of videos, but your description is best. Can you suggest strength/stamina or other videos that will help me get to use techniques. Cheers.
Was watching a high class 400m race the other day where they were doing 48 seconds and really noticed this! I then looked at a video of my somewhat slower "sprints" and kind of realised one of the reasons I am not as fast!
Can not be forced 👌👍
I couldn't disagree with this more. For me, it is the posterior chain you should be thinking about most during your stride, not the front of the leg. You should be focusing on activating your posterior chain (glutes, hamstrings, achilles) to push off the ground from your standing foot which will in turn promote maximum extension out the back end of your stride. It is this motion that should give you the feeling of pushing yourself forcefully forward using your posterior chain rather than the feeling of pulling yourself forward with your quads and front of the leg. With good back extension, the natural kinetic energy will feed forward on the front end of the stride to help move your knee up (in addition to the action of your hip flexor and quads). Obviously it's a combination of both front and back of stride but I think focusing on the posterior chain through strengthening and activation exercises will improve your running efficiency to the greatest degree. Your glutes are the strongest muscle in your body. Use them.
Excellent video!
I suspect high kick during running is correlated to high flexibility of the knee joints and muscles of the thighs. In Kung Fu leg and hip flexibility contributes to the power of the kicks.
The longer you stride becomes the higher the heel goes normally the steps per min stays the same all the time
Hi-Can you please tell exactly which stretches I should do to be able to do a high kick-I used to be able to run fast, but now due to years of sitting and also hiking repeats on stairs, I have very tight legs, hips. I for instance can't sit on my heels, even if I put a pillow under my butt. So, which stretches should we focus on? Thanks
Great info.Thanks. Is that a Polar or Sunnto you sport on the wrist?
To me its more like a training for being as fast as possible.. the shoes are also part of key factor to form ur running.. wear minimalist shoes therefore u feel the ground a lot more.. and just sprint it for lets say.. 10 seconds up hill.. down hill.. and flat roads.. and i dont really care much about high heel kicks..
the ones who understood, understood well. that same can be said in reverse tho
You say near the end you don't practice high kick. Instead it just comes naturally. Why not recommend stretching to enable a high kick as a very important part of training?
Because if you run a 4 minute mile, it will come naturally. The faster you go, the higher it will kick. In my experience, "practicing a high kick" is asking for one of two outcomes. Either you are going to wear yourself out with very little gain overall OR you are going to injure yourself because you are over extending.
@@thomasanderson9296 I didn't say anything about practicing a high kick!
It is not so much stretching as the speed and distance your knee moves on the recovery phase.
@@heatherfell_oly Perhaps I'm looking at it from an age perspective. In your 20s and 30s you don't really notice flexibility being an issue. In your 40s and 50s it starts to become an issue. In your 60s and 70s you no longer can take it for granted and need to actually work on it.
This is mostly false. The only true statement about kicking your heel up is the shortening of length of the leg and having your hips using less energy to swing your legs forward. But that's it.That's as far as the truth goes. High heel kicks is a byproduct of strength running and it is not something that is intentionally done. The amount of force a person exerts on the ground to propel themselves forward and the transfer of energy from one leg up the hip and unto the other leg gives the heel flick effect. It is also the result of efficient running and not the other way around. As in you don't forcibly heel flick to become efficient but rather you train with this type of stride/cadence in order to become more efficient with this style of kicking. The reason why all elite runners have this heel kick is because they have to train this way in order to maximize their distance per step coupled with their ideal cadence. This optimizes the "speed" of a runner. So, does heel kicking make you more efficient? No. Does it make you faster? Yes. Two completely different things and they should not be confused as being synonymous. There are two things that will improve your time and that assuming that you have excellent aerobic base - that is stride length (which results in high heel flicking) and the cadence at which you run these strides. And to improve either requires more strength in the legs.
She is so beautiful to watch run, like a majestic gazelle.
Her partner is one lucky person whom I hope reminds her how amazing she is everyday.
Today Shura Kitata won London Marathon as heel striker! at least 50% OF ELITES HEEL STRIKE
Short story shorter : pros run faster than us
Mm.. it seem to me that literally every technical aspect of running - high kick, contact time, vertical oscillation, stride length, cadence are all consequences of running pace not determinants. When I run faster, all these aspects improve unconsciously. Trying to improve them consciously makes no difference..
Yes, forcing a heel kick is awkward running. That's a warm up move lol
Time to kick butts
Kicking high like this does get my heart rate to increase and also my breathing so this is for faster speed and so, not for daily running slow milage. Oh it is said it at the END of the video, while I was going to exit the video LOL
I can't run in high pace more than 5 minutes, let's see if it changes when I try the high kick.
It not true that elite runners especially Tri Athletes are fore foot strikers - Seb K; Lional S; Jan F; Daniela Ryf all heel strike!
Any actual elite runners though? Say like sub 2:10 men or sub 2:30 women in the marathon? The ones you mention are top class long distance triathletes of course but not in pure running terms.
@@TimGrose Hi Tim lots of studies done on this this is one: 60% of high level athletes running road race (even international elites) are heel strikers... (Note that they all use "racers" running shoes with heel-toe vertical drop of 4-10mm ... a technical aspect of the shoe that promotes heel striking!)... but 90% of track athletes are forefoot strikers.
@@TimGrose LINK: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspor.2020.00102/full
New research has shown that there were more similarities than differences between heel-strikers and those who land on the midfoot or forefoot. Specifically this was with World Championship marathon runners.
There are always outliers and then triathletes are different again, especially after 112 miles on a bike.
@@heatherfell_oly the fact is its just not correct to say that all elite runners are foor foot strikers - 60% heel strike
It actually has nothing to do with being able to run fast. I have seen some people who seems to be draging legs behind barely lifting them while still running 2:40/km pace. They are all milers and unless they are finishing in 52s lap they dont seem to be running fast.
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Rannig i am india
I just tried this technique. It is a challenge. But I’m going to keep it up. My ribs are on fire.
Lionel sanders zero kick even limps when he runs, can somebody pls explain how he runs do fast
Jim Walmsley
I'm elite runner and I kick butts.
They kick high because they run fast.
Exactly mate that what i was thinking
SO MANY UA-cam running advisers use to recommend the high heel kick like it wasn't something natural and product of the speed/intensity.
Thanks for fighting disinformation.
Yeah right if you train very often on the track... A lot of speed endurance, drills, and long runs.. Always if u train right and you're body can handle it.. Youre stride gonne improve
I’ve been thinking about this for a while and tried it at lower speeds and haven’t found any differences in say heart rate for the technique you describe at the same speed. It seems maybe the energy efficiency increase by shortening the lever is offset by the extra energy exerted by flicking your heels higher so neutralises itself to no benefit. So I think the result is just run naturally. Your body will find it’s position. Anyone else come to this conclusion?
BitNit pace is important
Because they're going at 4:40 pace.
High kick happens with a faster paces. It's natural.
The high kick was a basic thing back in track running...
The majority of runners didn’t run in track and field.
Not all do kick so high though....
No, the difference is their training, they run 100+ miles in a week and do also a lot of intervals, and they do this for decades, and the rest of the running community half of that at best...................simple as that....................no need to overthink this or over explain............
A pointless video for 7 minutes...............
Good video. Explains things really well.
Meanwhile "the running channel" is doing another cack video on "10 things you do when you're a runner"
And CONSTANTLY begging people to subscribe!
Can't help but jump in because it drives me mad that they not only constantly beg but do so at the very beginning of the video in a fixed scripted form!
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