A few weeks into barefoot running I have two major learnings: 1, It’s so smooth, effortless and joyful compared to conventional running, IF you get the technique right. 2, It’s very hard work and takes a lot of patience to reset the muscles, calves in particular, to tune into barefoot running technique. I have searched [...]
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barefoot running you will know that the barefoot running technique is different from the technique wearing modern running shoes . In essence: No heel strikes, light landing on the ball of your foot and your calves act as springs to absorb the impact of the landing and pushing you forward into the next step. Check the videos and articles in the first part of Barefoot running Assuming that your pistols are now fast and accurate it’s time to put the leg explosivity you’ve built to the test in the burpee! The burpee is a great allround exercise to build aerobic and anaerobic capacity. You build stamina through the complex movement with three jumps, you build leg explosivity in the jumps and [...] Being interested in MovNat I came across Barefoot Ted and had an eureka moment realizing that I have taken the completely wrong approach to running. I’ve taken the approach the $20 billion running shoe industry wants me to. For the past 15 years or so I have weighed in at around 85-90 kg (14 stones) and [...] The Pistol Fight is the fitness challenge of May 2009. This is how the challenge goes: A pistol is a one-legged squat, one legged raised in front of you and kept parallel to the floor while slowly squatting down one your other leg and then pressing up again. Voila! Easy right? On the first of [...] Wonder if Axl Rose had the same kind of fun’n’games in mind that Erwan Le Core or Greg Glassman had in mind when they designed their respective fitness concepts? I dare to call myself fit. Spent my late teens in the gym, Muscle & Fitness was my bible and Arnold Schwarzenegger my God. My early [...] |
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