Injury-Free Running, Second Edition: Your Illustrated Guide to Biomechanics, Gait Analysis, and Injury Prevention

This negative nurture had changed the way we naturally moved and because the majority of us didn’t move with any conscious thought, we had carried these changes into our running form.

In the repetitive motions of walking, the inner tuning of our springs is unconscious. Apparently even the spinal cord is rarely involved in controlling the movement—it is the local relationship between the mechanoreceptors in the fascial tissue and the surrounding “adjusters” of the muscles that are in charge. By finding the most efficient level of

Over time, heavy use of your body in one particular pattern makes strong tissues next to weaker ones, which creates an environment where an injury can slowly develop. The frequent consumption of varied movement is what drives essential physiological processes.

the most important running form/foot plant for you is the one that keeps you healthy.