Healthy Running Characteristics from the Front

[@puravida1965]

40 years of trying to fix tight outside calves, locked hips and lateral heal flip - you’ve given me renewed hope. You are awesome!

[@LawrencevanLingen]

Be sure to do the backwards walking.. stay tuned. And the. The resisted walking.

[@kkt552]

Hi Lawrence, I just wanna say thank you for sharing in Dr. Chatterjee's podcast about "life". I truly believe our running form and walking form reflect a lot about our inner world. Thanks for the reminder. Be awesome! By the way, I just did some of your breathing exercise you taught on KZbin and the backward walking ex and then I did a 20 min. jog for the longest time I couldn't remember. Thank you for empowering me to jog/run away. Btw, I'm the one judging people all the time with their postures and muscle weakness but now I learn a better way :) -from a physio, KK

[@LawrencevanLingen]

That is awesome thank you for sharing

[@helsshorty]

Your enthusiastic tutorial method is infectious 🙏 I’m glad I found your breathing tutorial after listening to you on Dr Rangan’s Chatterjee’s podcast. I’m not a runner but I found this extremely interesting, for a person who has seen and felt the benefits of backward walking on my general gait and for improving general body mechanics. And especially for building weak and creaky knees! I also appreciate the benefit of barefoot and wish I’d taken more notice of this years ago. I’m sending your clips to my newly qualified physio daughter too 👏🙏

[@LawrencevanLingen]

Thank you. And I think it’s almost never too late, because now you really get to appreciate better movement. It is not lost on you.

[@AntonPanev]

My first 100 miler is today - putting this into practice! Many thanks for the content!

[@LawrencevanLingen]

WoW. Good luck. Hope you crush it 💥

[@AntonPanev]

@@LawrencevanLingen9th out of 100. I’ll take it for my first race and first 100. As fatigue set in and wearing high drop ASICS taxed the quads, I think. It seems to me that wearing lower drop shoes allows me to better feel and implement/reinforce the movement. Any thoughts? I can’t wait for your super shoe video!

[@smiththomas64]

I feel like I need to video my running form and send to you for review! I am enjoying the recent content and setting you’re in.

[@LawrencevanLingen]

I don’t really comment that much on peoples run forms. I could certainly help point out areas to work on. Work on the things I am outlining here and it will all fall into place. Next up backwards walking and then resisted walking. Once you have those in place your running will shift to another zip code.

[@SadpraAntsaw]

Hi Lawrence! You're the best. I have been watching your content for a while now and it's really helping me at multiple levels. My relationship with running, health, and mind-body sync has been positively impacted because of you. More power to you and keep sharing your wisdom with us. Love from India!

[@LawrencevanLingen]

Thank you so much. Best wishes and keep on keeping on.

[@SimonH-z7w]

Thank you Lawrence for sharing such great information and for being such an excellent human. We need more folks like you in this world!❤

[@LawrencevanLingen]

That is very kind of you to say. We need more you’s too 👊🏻

[@yeahhhhh9209]

Head over foot is a game changer ...thanks man you bring joy and happiness 🙏

[@LawrencevanLingen]

My pleasure! More to come 💪🏻

[@Sivakamia-q3t]

That was helpful and delightful. Thanks so much!

[@LawrencevanLingen]

You are so welcome!

[@rachaeladeniran]

I want to "stand with purpose, with something to give and share with the world with trust and open-heartedness." Thank you for these words ❤.

[@LawrencevanLingen]

Love that! Let’s gooo Rachel 👊🏻

[@vtrunnermudtrail9921]

Wow!! What a great breakdown.. thank-you so much

[@LawrencevanLingen]

You are so welcome!

[@sandro3390]

Awesome 😊

[@LawrencevanLingen]

Thank you

[@owenearl9121]

I was trying some of your tips today on my Sunday long run. Great advice BTW. I feel like I’m less inclined to drop my hip when I make sure I don’t overstride, along with the head position & shoulder turn. There’s a nice feeling of connection between leg extension and shoulder turn when my head is in the correct position 😊

[@LawrencevanLingen]

Nice work. Definitely practice the backwards walking and the resisted walking later.

[@Landscapes_4_U]

Love your energy mate

[@LawrencevanLingen]

Why thank you 🙏🏻

[@greenhoodie]

Awesome wisdom mate, both body and mind👍appreciate it.

[@LawrencevanLingen]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[@matyasflemr8001]

Hey Lawrence. Great videos. Really appreciate the way you're explaining the biomechanics. Just wanted to mention - for me the only thing I need to focus on while running are my shoulders. When I do a slight backwards rotation with my shoulders, sort of mimicking a backstroke swimming movement, or similar to the movement you get during the underhand rope flow in your other video, it takes care of everything else - positioning the head over the foot, keeping it nicely aligned with the shoulders, making the hips rotate and sort of move the hips slightly forward. On top of that I find it incredibly calming so I get completely relaxed while running. And when focusing on the shoulders, it sort of compensates the work that the hips and legs are doing so that everything meets in the middle and all the thoughts end up right in the center. Anyway.. just in case anyone wanted to try letting the shoulders do all the running... Oh by the way - how can anyone enjoy running without a proper ground feel??? NO to supershoes!!! (trail runner here) Anyway.. keep up the good stuff. Peace 🙏

[@LawrencevanLingen]

Ah that’s awesome and thank you for sharing. This can greatly help others. You kinda fortunate that, that one cue or pattern ties so much together but yes it often is like that. Love barefoot running and ground feel myself. Think super shoes also have a lot to give for some people too. Will do a video on them too. Take care. L

[@matyasflemr8001]

I might be fortunate. I've done a fair bit of juggling when I was younger so I have the coordination kind of sorted out for life. But still I believe that the focus on bacward shoulder rotation naturally brings all the other benefits - I'd be curious to know in how many people this wouldn't work. Because again from natural biomechanics - if your shoulder goes back and down, your head moves over that shoulder (and the foot), your other shoulder goes forward and up (hence the upper body rotates), your belly button points towards the lead leg and the lead leg hip rotates. If you ensure your shoulders are backwards rotating and you would want any of the consequent movements not to happen, you would have to actively oppose them. I think Kelvin Kiptum's (too bad he wasn't given more time to spend here with us) running style is a great illustration of these movements. James Dunne has a nice video analyzing his running here on youtube. It is a bit exaggerated in his case (although one might as well call it efficient since it resulted in the fastest marathon time ever) but very illustrative. Looking forward to your future content. I really appreciate that you're sharing all these with the running community. Cheers Matyas

[@LawrencevanLingen]

​​⁠thanks for the thoughtful reply. Some people are stuck in an anterior chain shoulder pattern from a neurological point of view. So opening up these neural pathways seems to have a much deeper effect on these individuals. And yes if you get the shoulder pattern right it sets up so much goodness. Really dialing down hip movements with the shoulder movements seems to be the key.

[@marinodeoliveira1214]

Brilliant Lawrence what a masterpiece.. Greatly appreciate it ♥️

[@LawrencevanLingen]

You are very welcome

[@rof8200]

Nice. Bellybutton towards lead leg helped a lot

[@LawrencevanLingen]

Excellent news.

[@santiparrella]

Greetings from Argentina!! Really enjoy your videos!!

[@LawrencevanLingen]

Glad you like them Soccer world champion ⚽️

[@cindyscott8470]

Thank you Lawrence, I choose to move with ❤!

[@LawrencevanLingen]

My pleasure ❤️

[@kitingholger9826]

I’m in process studying your video that you are bringing really different concepts in contrast to the technique optimization videos by others that are all over here. I like your spirit to reduce it to the basics and remind us on our basic biological concepts. Will try out your concepts one by one and curious to learn what happens. Thanks and keep up with such great content !

[@LawrencevanLingen]

Thank you and be sure to let me know how you get on.

[@dariusjs7]

Thanks so much again for sharing, my takeaway on this one is about learning to be more comfortable with your body

[@LawrencevanLingen]

Always 👊🏻

[@jseales86]

Lawrence is right. People changing how you run will mess you up. It happened to me. Now I've been trying to untangle it for years because that too is a process. Fortunately we can learn a lot from that process, like I have learned a lot from Lawrence. I hope to learn more.

[@LawrencevanLingen]

Thank you. Will out out way more content soon and you can figure it out at a much more appropriate pace.

[@gcwilson1]

Thanks LVL! Always good!--

[@LawrencevanLingen]

Thanks Greg

[@werdnativ]

Thanks for these videos, Lawrence! I'm really enjoying your approach as you demonstrate how it's grounded in what, I think, should be self-evident concepts. But meanwhile, I'm also trying to figure out how to apply it, while simultaneously pushing performance improvements in my regular training. I think most athletes are naturally wired for measuring progress and seeing incremental improvement-especially runners, for whom the primary metric is the clock... of course there are many other numbers to chase, too. I'm curious if you have anything to share about how to gauge one's progress towards better running form (can I see it on my Garmin!?) or is it just a subjective "feels better than last time" as we individually stumble towards improvement?

[@LawrencevanLingen]

For most people there are significant performance gains. We have seen improvements of 90 seconds to 2 minutes over 10km in elite triathletes. And it often happens fast, 3 to 6 weeks. Some people go through a bit more of a turbulent time. Objective shifts or changes should be. More regulated nervous system. Better sleep and HRV scores. Faster running for lower RPE or lower Heart rate or blood lactate. Much less pain and or discomfort. The changes are not usually subtle. I don’t get involved in things that don’t really make a difference. Best wishes on your change.

[@skisupenthusiast681]

100% ! (Greetings from Hong Kong!) Well articulated. Looking forward to try the flow rope, having just had the master algorithm of the universe reveal your channel to me 🤗. Lots of nuggets here. Interested to see if you incorporate any animal flow into your routines for running?

[@LawrencevanLingen]

Well done algorithm. I play around a little with animal flow. I am not that well versed in it.

[@skisupenthusiast681]

@@LawrencevanLingen It would be great to have a follow along video for post run stretching 🙏

[@skisupenthusiast681]

@@LawrencevanLingen It would be great to have a follow along video for post run stretching 🙏

[@skisupenthusiast681]

@@LawrencevanLingen It would be great to have a follow along video for post run stretching 🙏

[@LawrencevanLingen]

@@skisupenthusiast681 will have to do one. Mostly we focus on mobility and not that much stretching

[@christianwalter-v6h]

AWESOME - THX - now back to the rope

[@LawrencevanLingen]

This is the way

[@pamkassner8940]

❤❤❤❤

[@LawrencevanLingen]

Thanks Pam