Up and Running: Running with Fascial Spring

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Feb
25
Fri

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Up and Running: Running with Fascial Spring
What swimming is for fish, and flying is for birds, that is running for healthy humans: the most elegant style of locomotion. One for which our evolution has equipped us with dozens of specific adaptations in contrast to our closest siblings, like chimpanzees or gorillas. A bird that has been living on the ground may need to learn how to fly in a smooth and graceful manner. Similarly, we modern humans, with our mostly sedentary lifestyles, may profit from re-discovering how healthy running was practiced by our barefoot nomadic ancestors. This includes the optimal usage of elastic storage capacities in our plantar fascia, Achilles and patellar tendons, iliotibial tract, as well as several diagonal myofascial slings across the pelvis.

A more fascia-oriented running style will also consider including frequent walking pauses, as well as variations in the basic running style, such as in-stride length, foot-floor contact, and running speed. The viscoelastic properties supporting these principles will be illustrated and discussed in this live presentation. Needless to say (unless you are German), rhythm is key! Finding the optional inherent resonance frequency for the specific stiffness and pendulum lengths of your body on a given day can be a fun and very rewarding task.

A chicken jumping down a cliff may suffer some injuries, if not done wisely. Similarly, most modern runners are prone to troubling musculoskeletal dysfunctions due to overload of specific fascial tissues. Ready to start flying? Or maybe better, to run like a healthy nomad across the savanna and through the jungle? If yes, then you are happily invited to learn to explore human, fascial biomechanics supporting a more joyful and healthy nomadic lifestyle.

Robert Schleip

Following Robert’s uplifting, run-like-a-healthy-nomad presentation, you are invited to roll out your mat for a multidimensional and elegantly-sequenced Slings in Motion practice. We will elasticise the legs and hips for enhanced fascial spring, play with lots of exercise variations, and explore different rhythms to give you greater biomechanical efficiency and joy when running – if not in the savanna, then on a running trail in your neighbourhood.

Karin Gurtner

Event finished
Via Zoom®
Fri 25th Feb 2022
4:00pm CET
120 mins