Our Legs Run on Parallel Paths

For Running to be a Healthy and Long Term Habit, We Must keep our movements “all lined up.” But Not All on the Same Line.

The Mid Line of Our Body is Only One of the Paths that Our Body is Traveling On. Our Heads, Torso, and Hips Travel on This Central Path. And Should Not Rotate with the Movements of The Legs and Arms..

Our Legs Each Travel on Different Paths, that are Parallel to Our Central Path.

The Distance Between Our Hip Joints Determines the Distance Between Our Legs. This Distance Should Remain the Same All the way Down The Legs to the Feet.

This Means that Our Hip joints, Knee joints, Ankles, Heels, and Fore Feet are ALL the Exact Same Distance Apart. Through the ENTIRE RANGE OF MOTION.

The Same Concept applies to our upper arms. They are on their own parallel paths as well. These paths are slightly farther apart. Determined by the Distance Between our Shoulder joints. So our Shoulders through our Elbows stay the same distance apart through the Entire Range of Motion.

Our hands naturally sit on slightly closer paths than our upper arm. This means that our Forearms Will be At a Slight Inward Angle relative to the upper arm. This Angle Remains the Same Through the Entire Range of Motion. The Angle is Consistent, because the Paths of the Elbow and Hand are Consistently Parallel.

These Parallel Paths Give Us the Most Efficient and Low Friction Movement of Our Body. This is the Design of Our Body Mechanics. We only deviate from these paths when balancing over unexpected situations. And This Quick Deviating of Paths IS us  balancing over the sudden unexpected situations, until we can ReGain Our Balance to a Stable Efficient Parallel Paths Body Mechanics.