Jack: I am pressing number 10 on the treadmill. I'm going from zero to six-minute per mile pace. In order to peak up speed with each step, my feet keep dropping behind my upper body center of balance. That is the only way you can pick up speed with each step to reach your pace. Then, when I reach my pace, my feet keep dropping ahead of my upper body center of balance, but as little ahead as I pass, so we could make it, because if I reach any further ahead, my pace will slow down and I will not be running ahead—in running technique is to drive at one angle, head to toe. It is ridiculous because look how fast the angle changes. You can a few if they want you to push into the ground, you could only do it at 100 different angles. You cannot do it at one angle.
Male: Hi, I am Dr. ‘Hegland’ and I'm a physician that believes that medicine should come from the farm and not the pharmacy. I’ve actually had the extreme privilege of getting people well by using nutritional technique. Today, I am going to get a chance to introduce a very special guest to you. Her name is Jodie Hawkins.
Jodie, it’s the first time I’ve had a chance to meet you and I think probably one of the neatest things I have seen is that display that you have at your house, in the steps there, all those pictures and metals and things like that.
So, why don’t you tell me and the rest of these people about yourself.
Jodie: Okay. Whenever I got out of college, I run professionally for 10 years. During that time, I was a four-time United States national champion, and I was ranked number six in the world by Runners World Magazine on the road for two years. That was in 1993 and again in 1994. I have recently retired from running. I did have a chance to meet Jack, and he explained about his techniques to me back n ’94 when I was still racing very seriously. So, I didn’t get the opportunity to try it for myself.
So, I'm here today to check it out and see what it’s all about.
Male: So, for sure, you’re an expert that’s had all these opportunity to try a lot of techniques?
Jodie: Oh yes, lots of technique.
Male: Okay.
Jodie: I tried everything that I can to get faster. And now that I'm getting older, I need every little bit of help I can get. I'm about to head into the master circuit, I just figured that out at 35. So, how many tips that Jack can give me to get better would be great for me at this point in my life. I'm excited to try it.
Male: And this is the first time that you have actually seen this working, isn’t it true?
Jodie: Yes, sir.
Male: All right. You never used it in competition before?
Jodie: No, never have.
Male: Well, I have tried it myself and I think you will find it very easy, most exciting, an opportunity to get back into running at the level you want to go to.
Jodie: Okay, let’s do it.
Male: All right, I think we got to go meet Jack
Jodie: Okay, let’s go.
Male: All right.
Jack: You see, it’s the only way you can go. You—yourself forward unless you push yourself over the vertical leg.
Jodie: Okay.
Jack: Okay. Now, what I want you to do is pick up your front foot now, pick up your front—
Jodie: Lean on the back?
Jack: No, keep your weight in between your feet.
Jodie: Okay.
Jack: And just pick up your front foot and you’re going to have to fall forward because your weight is ahead of your back foot. Pick up your front foot. See that, and it’s the only way you can move. You can’t do anything with muscles to move any differently than that.
Gravity is the exerted force when you are moving horizontally, and no muscles are pushing them. All you are doing is locking your leg and letting it act as a vaulting pole. Okay, not let’s go over to the wall and I will show you something else.
Jodie: Okay.
Jack: The foot is held on the ground by friction. The socket holds the bottom of the leg and place at the top of the leg forward as the vaulting pole. The leg rolls forward in the socket of the foot and the body rolls forward on the socket of the hip. When the weight is centered between the hill and toe, you can’t walk or run. Lift your toe and the weight is ahead of your heel. You are no longer centered over the base, so gravity pushes you ahead. Keep your weight centered over your foot by pressing the toe. Even with the foot lifted in front of the other, the weight is so centered over the foot and you will still be standing still.
The only way you can move forward is by placing the weight ahead of the feet. There is no other way you cannot push back into the ground to move forward. If you lift your front foot, you’re going to be falling forward. If you lift your back foot, you’re going to be falling backward. No muscles could change the direction of the way that you move. Anytime that somebody tells you use the long stride and pushing back at the ground, it’s impossible to do. The only way that you can move horizontally is by your weight being ahead of the base.
Okay, Jodie, now I'm going to show you something about how gravity is the exert for force and you can’t use any force with your muscles to push yourself forward. What I want you to do is, lean slightly lean against the wall, pressing your fingers with gravity. Now, what I want you to do is push back against the ground and see if you could add more pressure against the wall, then gravity is providing. Then, I want you to step further back, lean more and see that gravity is supplying more pressure against your fingertips, but you can’t add any more pressure by pushing back against the wall.
Jodie: Okay.
Jack: Okay, I want you to try that.
Jodie: I can’t apply any more pressure without leaning forward. Of course now, I can, but traditionally in running, the harder yo press against the ground, the faster you’re going to go. Is that totally opposite of what you’re trying to tell me?
Jack: Yes, that’s totally opposite of what I'm trying to show and that is really the essence of my technique. my technique shows that your legs act as vaulting poles with no pushing back against the ground. The position that you place of vaulting pole, which is your feet is going to give your speed. If you position far ahead of you, you’re going to slow down. If you drop it more to the rear, you’re going to speed up just as if you were working with a vaulting pole.
Jodie: Okay, that makes sense to me. What about a lot of runners have problems with getting started because of their knees and their ankles are—the bones are like grinding off that. What do you do for that with your technique?
Jack: Okay. Well, one thing yo could do. There are few things that you’re supposed to be doing. One thing you could be doing, you should be doing is making sure that whenever you land, your knee is slightly bent, just slightly is enough so that the muscles absorb the impact rather than the bones. If you were landing with your foot straight, one bone pushes back into the other and crushes whatever is in between the two bones. So, you don’t want to do that.
Now, what I like to do is show you something else on the treadmill if you want to come over this way.
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