Start With the Big Toe and Get Those Feet Involved: Jay Dicharry
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
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🗓️ 13 November 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
How much credit do you give to your feet for making you a better runner? If you are like most of us, those feet get put into shoes and then you just hope they'll do their job.
It's time to rethink the strategic value of those two extremities that connect you to the ground and push you forward with every single step.
Our guest today is Jay Dicharry and Jay is one of the foremost authorities on running bio-mechanics. Jay built his international reputation as an expert in bio-mechanical analysis as Director of the SPEED Clinic at the University of Virginia, and now as Director of the REP Biomechanics Lab in Bend, OR.
In this episode, Jay teaches us the difference between Balance and Proprioception and why Proprioception matters so much for running effectively. He also shares with us tools and exercises to retrain our feet to work with us.
He is the founder and CEO of MOBO, a novel product that improves intrinsic foot control and today, Today's interview will be going over running mechanics and how integral the foot is in the whole process of making running happen.
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| 0:00.0 | On today's Run to the Top Podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | We know you're going to have loads on your foot and ankle, you know, several times your body weight, right? |
| 0:11.0 | So when you break down how much load your calf muscles, your |
| 0:13.4 | four foot, your rear foot actually see, depending on the joint, it's within two to |
| 0:16.7 | eight times body weight loads in a foot and ankle. So you've got to make sure |
| 0:20.8 | that you've got proper control and support to withstand those loads |
| 0:23.8 | stride after stride. |
| 0:25.8 | Welcome to the Run to the Top Podcast from Runners Connect, where it's all about learning from |
| 0:31.0 | the best and most inspiring minds in the sport. |
| 0:35.0 | Together, we can train a smarter, healthier, and faster running community. |
| 0:41.0 | Now here's your host, Stephanie Kay Atwood. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome, this is Stephanie K. Atwood, Boston Marathon Qualifier, |
| 0:50.0 | coach and host for the Run to the Top Podcast. How much credit do you give to your feet |
| 0:56.3 | for making you a better runner? If you're like most of us, those feet get put in |
| 1:01.3 | shoes and then you just hope they'll do their job. |
| 1:04.4 | Well, maybe it's time to rethink the strategic value of those two extremities that connect you to the |
| 1:10.4 | ground and push you forward with every single step. Our guest today is Jay |
| 1:16.1 | Desheri and Jay is one of the foremost authorities on running biomechanics. |
| 1:20.9 | Welcome to the Run to the Top Podcast, Jay. Thanks for having me, Stephanie. It's great to be here. |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah, it's good for you to be here. I've been trying to get this together for a long time and the whole |
| 1:32.4 | foot idea just seems like whoa we just don't pay |
| 1:36.7 | enough attention to feet so I think you're going to help clarify some of that |
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