Okay, let’s go the other end, stop and turn around. Ready, go, try to get the sense that you are leaning into it, that your weight is slightly forward. It’s kind of like in swimming, swimming it's about you talk about pressing the bully and swimming. The concept you push your chest into the water, that your hips come up it’s kind the same feeling, it's kind of like you are pressing the chest as you run into the into the air now.
We are just pushing our chest ahead of us and we lean our center of gravity out in front of our feet. Okay, back to the other end. Lets your arm swing, very good, very good. Try to getting the concept better, I can tell already, already starting to come around with the idea of how to run correctly, it's really not all that difficult it's going to like work your ways through these little things.
The last thing now what we talked about so far. We have talked about posture, upper body posture is important We have talked about what’s another thing is important. Okay, that’s all the part of upper body postures, hand position. The relaxed hands, the head been held up. The back is straight in this position. We will call that posture from the waist up. What’s another thing, it's important for running technique that we talked about here today?
Okay, the spring like position, getting your body in the spring like position. Be slightly flex weight toward the toe balls the feet not on the toes. Not on the heels; just toward the balls of feet heels still touching the ground. I am not trying to get you up like this just down like this but your weight is forward in the balls of your feet. So you got the spring like position. We are trying to -- what's the next thing we are trying to get right. We are trying to keep the feet underneath the torso while you run.
Now I realize when I say that, I am kind of like saying it with tongue and cheek a bit because as I say that I know as you are running. As you bring that foot up like this my body keeps on moving forwards, the foot winds up being behind you. This is what actually happens in reality. This is foot winds up being you that if you start trying to exaggerate or start thinking of putting your foot behind you, I guarantee you it will slow you down. All we are thinking about doing is brining the foot up underneath of you as the body moves forward and everything will workout right.
So you are not thinking about anything else except just bringing heels up for butt, it's like this. It's like you had a spring between your heel and your butt. The heel is just coming up like this, just toward your butt as you are running. So we are not trying to get in the front, we are not trying to get in the back we are just trying to keep underneath of us.
Now more than like we will look at the video tape we will see some of you that don’t do that. You don’t bring your foot up towards your butt. What you try to do is you try to keep your foot behind you on the ground so you can push as long as you can. You know the difference that the primary difference they find between a elite runners and slow runners is the amount of time they spend on the ground. The elite runners spend almost no time on the ground, they are amazingly short durations of foot contact time, when they hit the ground it’s like this. When slow runners hit the ground kind of like this, it's like a big rock is in motion, the foot is on the ground for very long time.
Now what do you know -- what this is kind of fits in this concept of potential energy, again. If I have a tennis ball and a glob is silly putty and I throw both on a concrete floor. We know the tennis ball is going to hit the floor, it's going to grab -- all the energy I put into it by throwing on the floor, the potential energy, a lot it's going to return the balls, it's going to spring right back up again. That glob is silly putty, when I throw it at the ground what it does is it just like spreads out. We get some very tiny little bump out thing, when it hits the ground.
Running under heels it's kind of like running with silly putty. When you land way back
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