come on man it's absurd people don't understand context if you train with your heels down in the

weight room that you're going to magically forget how to accelerate on the balls of the feet

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What's going on, guys? Before we get into today's's episode I want to go over some basic terminology

I talk a lot about heel strike versus midfoot verse four foot so in the research a heel strike or a rear foot strike is just defined as the heel touching down first

so whether we're talking about an approach jump where we have a heel strike or what

we'll talk about a lot of runners do have a heel strike, a lot of people get this

wrong because they think that a heel strike means like this really hard heel in

the ground, heavy heel, that is incorrect.

That is actually very, very rare if you're

striking just in front of your center of mass. So it's really an overstride problem. So

all these people on social media saying never be down on the heels because hamstring strains

happen there or ACL tears are more likely with the heel on the ground.

Well, that is a correlation, not a causation.

So what's really the problem is an over-stride.

So if I over-stride, I have this negative shin angle.

Of course I'm going to be heavy on the heel.

My heel has no choice but to hit the ground and strike really, really hard in this position.

So it's an overstride problem, not a heel problem. The heel is just a byproduct of the overstride.

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