STRIDE ANGLES FOR SPEED

STRIDE ANGLES FOR SPEED

It is impossible to stride another way for even one step forward. You must stand off balance.

1. I am starting a run from a standstill to reach a 6 minute per mile pace in time with the speedup of the belt on a treadmill. I press number 10 on the monitor.

2. My first landing drops the foot where the first grounded foot took off. From then on I keep dropping my feet at the same angle behind my upper body’s center of balance. Dropping the feet behind center is the only way to pick up speed exponentially with each step.

It is impossible to see the spot where the landing is at the angle that will send you forward. It isn’t necessary to see it though because you can feel where you place it.

3. It gets harder to condense the spread of the feet as the speed of the belt speed increases. The feet spread apart more only with the foot in the rear. The landing angle behind center stays the same. The landing angle behind center is the speed pickup stage of a run. In the steady stage the foot lands as little ahead of center to hold the pace reached. If you drop your feet more ahead of center you enter into the slowdown stage of a run.

4. Upon reaching a steady 6 mpm pace. The attempt to condense the stride much gets impossible to do. Working hard at condensing the stride is what you must do to return the foot in time to keep you from falling.

You do not need any measurements for the angles from center to drop your feet. To pick up speed drop your feet behind center in the amount you want to add the speed. To keep the stride you reached hold the shortest reach ahead.

Sports technique sciences have been a virtual disaster to the people following their conclusions. A few short facts I discovered through my research prove past researches have not produced correct scientific discoveries for running speed. They haven’t found the science for taking one step forward.

My conclusions for building up the most running speed from a standstill starts with a few inches stride in the spread of the feet. If it was possible to maintain that short spread of the feet you would be able to keep gaining the most speed forever. The object of shortening the stride to the max is to give you the ability to stand the most off balance and keep the most off balance up for the most steps possible for you. As it is, the speed increases force the feet to spread apart more by flipping the feet back and up. The runner moving ahead faster leaves the ground behind faster similar to the belt of a treadmill. The receding ground or the belt of a treadmill flips the foot back more and higher as it picks up speed. A sprinter works the hardest to keep the feet from spreading to be able to increase speed the most with each step.

We always shorten the follow through as a natural thing that we learned to do subconsciously from the time we were babies. In slower running we don’t shorten the stride too much because a short choppy stride is harder to run with. Since in a slow run you get to a steady pace in only a few steps it is not necessary to overly condense the stride. In a slow run a medium length stride is the most relaxing.

A lot of details in the techniques to make it all work perfectly are in my books and videos. Don’t be surprised if you still have questions for making it all happen. You haven’t been taught it all.