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What's up everybody? Justin Hays here from SuperhumanPursuits.com. You
might have noticed the lighting is a little bit better today. I actually
got two new lights and a microphone. I'm hoping to make these videos a bit
more engaging, entertaining, and in turn more educational. Anything that
ups the quality, that's what I'm chasing. Hopefully, this fits the bill.
I want to talk a little bit about running again. I know I spoke about it in
the last post, and I don't want you to think that I'm gearing this blog
towards running. That's not the case. It just so happens there has been a
lot of events in my area, the St. Louis area, like tough mudder or Warrior
Dash, and I've heard a lot of conversation about running in general.
That's where I want to start this off. I hear when people start to run or
get involved in it heavily, I start to hear people talk about their gait
cycle. They might not necessarily refer to it as gait cycle, but that is
what they're talking about when they're saying, "Do I overpronate? Do I
underpronate? Do I forefoot strike? Do I heel strike?"
Runners will talk to each other and someone will say, "Oh, I have a problem
with overpronation." Then I'll hear this general advice, and the general
advice is usually related to go to such and such store and grab a pair of
running shoes or go to such and such place, such and such doctor and look
into orthotics.
I just want to say that if you look at how your foot strikes and think
about it, it's almost common sense that what's going on above that at the
knee joint, at the hip joint, in your core, those things dramatically
affect how your foot's going to strike. If you don't stabilize the core
region, if you lack certain stability or mobility in the hips, if your
knees are caving in or caving out, these are the big players in what's
going on at the foot level.
If you were to go and just get an orthotic or get a running shoe and try to
correct this pattern by just looking at that alone, you're not going to
solve the problem. An orthotic or a running shoe with a lift or a high arch
is not going to solve a core stability issue you have, a hip mobility issue
you might have, or good activation issue you might have. It's not going to
solve any of those problems.
My piece of advice, please, please, please, please if you've thought about
getting orthotics, if you've thought about getting shoe inserts or high
arch to custom made running shoes, before you do that, go ahead and find
out if you're functionally sound. Go ahead and search for good training and
see if everything is working properly from a functional level above that
before you start to deal directly with the foot.
I hope that helps. Any other feedback you guys have on this, I'd love to
hear it. Questions, let me know. Talk to you soon. Bye-bye.