Troubleshooting, improving your running technique is going to be a challenge. You have run hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of strides the way you run now. Be patient and persistent while you make the changes. This will help you run much faster. The biggest road blocks athletes face. Number one, running too fast. Be sure to shorten your stride as you increase turnover. Efficient runners use light, quick movements not forceful ones to create speed. If you are probably used to pushing off relatively hard, even at slower running speed, lighten up your push off, and you will be able to run with a quick turnover.
Carrying the heels too high, concentrating too much on staying up on the toes causes many runners to point their toes and carry the heel several inches off the ground. This produces inefficient propulsion and causes unnecessary cavity and injuries.
Concentrate on getting your weight forward on to the balls of your feet, but don't worry about it if the heel does touch the ground as long as it's not weighted. Over-stressing the calf muscles. Anytime you change technique, you provide different stresses to the body tissues and you need to give them time to adapt.
If you probably not use your calf muscles nearly enough and you are running to this point, training the calf muscles which have very little conditioning using a workflow that your well trained hamstrings and quadriceps can handle, is a sure way to over train them. Causing undue fatigue, soreness and injury risk. We generally recommend cutting training volume and intensity to about 50% of normal and gradually increase it, be patient.
Not maintaining relaxation. Whenever any athlete wants a new mechanical skill, he tends to be mechanical, almost like a robot at first. This tendency correlates well with the degree of change in technique. Evolution style running is probably quite different from your old running style. Expect to be mechanical and jerky at first, but try to relax as you incorporate the new movements into your stride. It will not feel smooth at first, because the moments are much quicker and more abrupt than what your body is used to.
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