Elite runners LIFT their FEET SO HIGH - SHOULD YOU TOO?

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Why do elite and pro runners lift their heel so high, and should we, as non-elite, do the same? Let's see what science and training have to say about it...
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[@ashishpiplani]

Thanks. Thoroughly enjoying these videos. Super useful

[@SafeMotions]

Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying them.

[@purnomopurnomo9491]

The explanation deserves more likes! I like it and just subscribed

[@SafeMotions]

Thanks for the awesome comment, and for subscribing 👍

[@Beth281]

Thank you!! I’ve been trying to figure this out!!

[@SafeMotions]

Glad it helped! Thanks for your comment.

[@lpnlivelihood8685]

I like the way you explained that healthy tip for runners 🏃‍♀️ thank you 🙏🏻 so much my friend, I hope you have a great weekend 🍀

[@SafeMotions]

Thank you for watching! Have a great weekend too...

[@runningwithdr.andrewdpt9177]

Great video!! Great explanation on how the hamstrings are involved with running. I have been doing to Nordic hamstring exercise and it seems to help. Thank you for sharing!!

[@SafeMotions]

Thanks so much for watching! Yeah, they're a tough exercise. I getting better at them, but not ready to add resistance to it any time soon...

[@Keith-ui4tp]

Great video mate, deserves way more views👍

[@SafeMotions]

Thanks a lot for your encouraging message. Much appreciated 🙏

[@MihaiGoRunning]

Amazing clip, Stephane! Watched it twice! Thanks for sharing us your knowledge dear friend! 🙏Best wishes!

[@SafeMotions]

Haha, double thanks Mihai for watching! Best wishes to you too.

[@hardwors11]

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[@TDMiller]

Just what I needed, Stephane! Makes perfect sense. Now all I need to do is remember it when I go for my next run 😅

[@SafeMotions]

Maybe start a list of things to remember?

[@DevRunner]

Great talk Stephane! I've always concentrated on the knee drive and pushing my foot down into the ground,,,, I let the back kick take care of itself.

[@SafeMotions]

Hey Paul, thanks for sharing 👍, pushing the foot down is so important for power. I've seen "new" techniques that preach a fully soft foot landing, which is fine for a jog. But I don't think you'll reach full potential with that...

[@ed7268]

Love it! Thanks for explaining the bio-mechanics. I don't know if I am more impressed by the explanation or by the video clip of you doing Nordic hamstring curls whilst kneeling on brick!

[@SafeMotions]

Hahaha, thanks for watching Ed! I appreciate it. My knees too...

[@davidspencer8233]

Excellent 👍

[@SafeMotions]

Thanks!

[@runningwithstelvio]

Very interesting Stephane! Hopefully I use it properly, and anyhow I have to train it more... arigato ;-)

[@SafeMotions]

I think you do use this properly!!! But even so, you are right. Always need to train 💪💪💪

[@brentcombrink]

Insightful, thanks. And, a bit off topic, I'm curious as to why so many speakers mispronounce eccentric as ecentric?!

[@SafeMotions]

We (most people in the biomechanical field) pronounce ee-centric en English (I am french and pronounce it eksentric in French) simply because that's how it's been taught in university 🤣. Kidding. The mispronunciation is in maybe a purposeful way to clearly differentiate from eksentric (out of whack, there is nothing eksentric about an ee-centric contraction), just like I always pronounce abee-duction instead of abduction, to differentiate from adee-duction (adduction). At least that's how I feel. To my ears, I'm happier to hear ee-centric in biomechanics and eksentric any other time.

[@AvinMarv]

Always something new I’m learning from your channel bro. I hope more runners will see your videos. I might have to hire you as my “long distance” coach… get it?! Hahaha. Cause you’re too far away. You’d be a great running coach bro.

[@SafeMotions]

Hahaha! My long distance runner... Thanks for your compliment dude!

[@TrailSage]

Top of the bottom of the leg, lol. Fantastic advice Steph. I have a pretty good kick back when I run and I'm happy to hear that is not a bed thing.

[@SafeMotions]

Not a "bed" thing, for sure. Or a bad thing either 😉 Thanks for watching Sage!

[@TrailSage]

@@SafeMotions OMG I type faster than I can think. Do they make a bloopers reel for comments, lol

[@SafeMotions]

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[@Runnerrwe]

Great one Stephane. I think they can do it easy since they are 130-140 lbs. Most average size runners it is more difficult. At that size everything is scaled down in difficulty. The elite runners are very thin. The small stems makes the lifting and flexibility easier. In my son's Karate class , they have them do butt kick drills in place. I am not sure why but it must be to help with flexibility.

[@SafeMotions]

Thanks Richard! Butt kicks are a good cardio, so I guess good warm up for Karate 😁 For those elite runners, maybe weight helps, but look at sprinters, same lower limbs form, much heavier athletes. I think mostly, they spend their career working on technique...

[@Runnerrwe]

@@SafeMotions Stephane, that is a good point. I didn't think about sprinters. They have big legs

[@flameace]

It's bit weird how eccentric hamstring activation happens when foot has landed and until it lifts off, leg is straightening and that should happen with concentric quadriceps activation. So does hamstring resist straightening of leg? Shouldn't reciprocal inhibition prevent muscles from working against each other? Or is it doing it's other function, moving the leg backwards? But isn't that concentric action?

[@SafeMotions]

Good question. The hammies activate the most right before the landing, and right after the quads have flexed the hip already. Momentum extends the knee at that stage, not quad concentric action, unless maybe you are trying to overstride. The role of the hams there, is to slow down the knee extension, created by momentum. After that, the hams help to stabilize the body and release at toe off. Stabilization requires not just the primary action of a largest part of a muscle. It requires synergistic action of sometimes antagonists at various strengths so as to not prevent movement.

[@dna1238]

Carbon Plate?

[@SafeMotions]

I don't think carbon plates changed that aspect of the running mechanics of elite runners.

[@dimkit9714]

elite pro runners run a marathon at such a pace that a Sunday runner can not follow for 200 m...so how they are gonna lift their heels that high as a pro ! it's a matter of speed, when a pro warms up then his heels are as high as in a race of a Sunday runner

[@SafeMotions]

Yes, agreed. Thanks for your input! I explain in the video why it happens at high speeds and what runners should focus on instead...