Proper Running Techniques

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Ken Kashabura, personal trainer and freelance fitness writer, and I'm here to show you proper running techniques. All right, when you're running there's a difference between long distance running and sprinting, okay? They do have a lot in common. You always want to be goin' straight ahead, so you want to be streamlined as much as possible without bobbing up and down. So, you want to work your strides so that you're not going up and down or side to side, no wasted movement. Another thing you want to do is you want to thicket your arms. Your arms should be, your elbows should be bent at a ninety-degree angle, and they should be going straight forward as well. If they're goin' side to side your body's going to go side to side and that's wasted motion. Now, the biggest difference between running short distance and long distance when running is your feet, so long distance; heel, outside heel touches, turns over, and you push off with your foot flat. So that's your long distance form, okay? You don't want to come in. You don't want to turn out. You want to land on that heel; come straight off. But whenever you're sprinting you really want to be on your toes and the balls of your feet as much as possible so that when you're sprinting it's almost like whenever you pull that hamstring back you really want to; it's almost like you're just flicking the ground, flicking off of it, so you can go run very quickly. I'm Ken Kashabura, and that was proper running techniques."