Forefoot Running, allows us to use the Elastic Qualities of our body, in a Healthy and Balanced way.

The Muscles, Tendons, Ligaments, and Joint Cartilage; Work In Coordination to Absorb Shock.

In Contrast; If we let our heels down onto the ground, we force our Joints to do the Brunt of the Work.

Our Meniscus, the Cartilage in our knees, is one of the best shock absorbers we have in our body. But it Can’t handle the impact of running by itself. Running is too much for the meniscus to handle on its own. Heel Striking will overly impact this area of the body, causing knee damage, and sending the remaining force outwards to our other joints. Our other joints don’t have as good of shock absorption, and they will wear and damage as a result. Hence; hip pain, back pain etc. commonly reported “problems with running.”

Our Muscles, Tendons, and Ligaments are also great shock absorbers. When we stay up on our forefoot; We can take advantage of this. We can use all of our body’s shock absorbing features at once. This Distributes the Impacts Evenly. Additionally, the extra elastic energy is returned to us in our next stride. The Energy Works With Us, Rather than Against Us.

When we use all of our body in this unified way; We reduce the impact to each area. We reduce it to a level that we are actually designed to sustain.

Within this healthy level of impact;

We no longer wear and damage our cartilage and joints.

Instead; We gain strength in our muscles, tendons, and ligaments.

Our joint health improves, our body' s natural lubrication is present.

This strength and health then increases our body’s ability to respond to the ground. This further decreases impact, and further increases our ability to use our body’s springiness. The ground is the hard thing, we are the springy thing. And being springy with as many joints as we have, takes the right technique; Forefoot Running