The Cool Impossible

Chronically tight muscles come from muscle dominance and unequal muscle activation. If you have equilibrium, you should not be chronically tight. Therefore (and this may surprise you, because it goes against popular wisdom), we should not need to stretch excessively. Excessive tightness is telling you something, and stretching may help it feel bett

I describe the ideal of the running form you’ll soon be learning as “performance” because “form” is at the heart of the word. Without form, there’s no performance, full stop.