- But why Daniella Ryf is able
to pull off these awesome run splits.
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Oh, and she's paused like, "Ew."
To the trolls.
What's up, trainiacs?
By the end of this video,
you're gonna think that I think Daniella Ryf
is a brutal runner.
You're gonna think that I think
she has a brutal running stride.
You're gonna wonder how she is possibly able
to set these run splits that she is.
However, what we're gonna do here
is we're gonna look at all those things
that, yes, I don't think are the prettiest
running stride aspects of any runner out there,
but why Danielle Ryf is able
to pull off these awesome run splits,
despite a lot of people saying,
"Hey, you know what,
"that is not a very nice running stride."
Okay, so we got some pretty awesome footage,
like this is straight out of our camera,
while we were in Kona.
Right now, we're looking at Daniella Ryf
running back in on Ali'i Drive,
it's just before she's about to go up the hill
and go out onto the Queen K Highway.
The couple of things that Daniella Ryf
has always been criticized for with her running form
is right there.
You can see that with her left arm,
she kinda comes over,
and it's like a cross punch, I dunno.
I don't box.
It's like a left cross,
she kinda comes across her center line,
whereas with her right arm
she's got really good natural cadence,
kinda keeping it at that 90 degrees,
and just a natural arm carry.
Now, in addition to that, looking at her from the side here,
you can see what seems to be a bit of an overstride,
and it's a heel strike.
Yeah, that's definitely the case.
Go down, foot way out front, heel strike.
Let's let that play through,
and you'll see in real time how it looks.
Now, the thought behind that heel striking
is when you put your foot out in front of you,
you have to then get your center of gravity over your foot,
which is essentially acting as a brake.
I completely agree,
however, the one thing that I would say
about Daniella Ryf that you can see perfectly,
like right there,
is that she has her center of gravity,
her momentum is going forward.
And that's the key to an efficient running stride.
If you're leaning back and sticking
your heel out in front of you,
you're letting yourself brake.
But if all she's doing
is letting her heel go out in front of her,
but the momentum is still going forward,
that's not the worst.
So, now you're gonna be able to watch Daniella Ryf
in slow motion and pick out certain aspects of her stride.
Again, you see that that right arm carry
is basically just a small, tiny little movement,
but the left arm has a really big movement.
See, it goes down, up, over,
down, out to the side, up, over.
It's a much bigger movement with that left arm
than with that right.
The one thing that you can see when it's in slow motion
dead on from the side,
is that while she is moving across her body there,
she never does actually cross the center line.
Maybe, like an inch or so.
And another thing that you can see from this angle
is that her feet and legs
aren't necessarily linear, they're not going dead straight
down the plane that she's running.
You can see that there's a bit of a knee bend in.
Take a look at her knees,
and you can see that there's a bit of a knee bend in
on both sides,
and her back foot,
or her foot when it's in behind her kinda flares out.
It's like it's not like she's pigeon-toed,
what's the other way?
Un-pigeon-toed?
Did I actually pause that
at a point that it looks like she's picking her nose?
I did.
Oh, snot rocket, I like it.
Oh, and she's paused like, "Ew, did I do that?"
From this angle, you see the same thing,
small little arm carry with the right arm,
bigger arm movement with the left.
You see, stop it.
You can see that forward,
she does land on her heel on the right foot,
and the left.
Okay, now why am I not sitting here
tearing her apart and being like,
"Daniella Ryf, how in the world do you run?
"You've gotta fix this!"
Well, you remember when all that hullaballoo was around
where you're like, you have to forefoot strike,
you have to be a barefoot runner,
you have to land on your center of gravity.
True runners were actually looking at those recommendations
and being like, this is such bull-shirt
that it doesn't matter.
What's actually been found is that yes,
if you have more minimal shoes,
if you land under your center of gravity,
if you midfoot or forefoot strike,
it is a more efficient style of running.
However, real true runners that run a long time
have any different number of running styles.
They heel strike, they land out in front,
they have different arm carries.
You look at, not Mo Farah, Haile Gebrselassie?
One of the fastest runners of all time,
he actually had a very similar
punchy movement with one of his arms,
similar to Daniella Ryf,
because when he learned to run
he was actually carrying a set of books to school.
Yeah, and he just kept running like that.
So, what the studies have actually shown
is that it's not actually your exact running form
that makes a difference with how fast a runner you are.
What makes a bigger difference is how long you run,
and by that I mean how many miles you put in
over the course of your life.
And the more frequently you put in miles,
the more regularly you put in miles,
the more your body is going to figure out
your most efficient running style.
And it's going to adapt to that.
So while there is, yes, an ideal running style,
which is probably much closer to Patrick Lange's,
it's not to say that Daniella Ryf obviously
can't run a ton of miles,
which again, she's obviously done,
to figure out her best running style.
Now, in addition to that,
Daniella Ryf came from an ITU background,
short course, fast racing.
And that's something that consistently
we're finding is a direct correlation
with being a faster runner at longer distance.
So, here are the things that we can learn
from Daniella Ryf's running stride.
It's A, run a lot so your body can figure out
your most efficient running style,
and build up to it,
we'll talk about that in another video,
which, by the way, you should subscribe to the channel
if you don't wanna miss those videos,
and B, always include certain amounts of speed work
throughout the course of a proper training plan
throughout the course of a year,
so that you're not losing that top end
of speed and strength.
Alright, go run.
Now,
that came in the mail.
I am unboxing a lot of presents these days.
Okay, so trainiacs, why I've been
unboxing so much more stuff and gear lately
is because with the change of this whole channel
to hopefully more of a full-time gig
sometime within the next year,
and the change to not being downtown in an office,
being at home,
this is all becoming much more of a lifestyle,
and I've got more time to
basically be a guinea pig for you all.
And we've got here
the Halo Sport
Neuroscience headphones.
And for all you people out there
that are gonna be rolling your eyes
and getting up in my business about the comments,
saying, "Hey, this needs to be marked as an ad,
"this is paid.
"Oh, Taren, I know how you're making your money now."
No, I'm not making any money off of this.
I am being a guinea pig, testing this stuff out
to tell you what it's like.
Not all of you can go and spend
700 clams on Halo Neuroscience headphones.
Not all of you can spend $400 on Footbeat foot thingies.
Not all of you can spend $150 on HumanCharger Earbuds.
But I can leverage this platform
and say to companies that have products
that seem to have a claim that could be useful,
say, "Hey, can I try it out?"
"And if I like it, I'll tell all of my followers about it,"
so that you all don't have to pay hundreds of dollars
for something that you don't know if it works or not.
I'm trying to do you a favor for God sakes.
There, rant over.
To the trolls.
Alright, so Halo Sport is
good at packaging, for starters.
It's like an iPhone, it's just crispy, and basic.
Got a couple different size earmuffs here.
If I wanna dress as Princess Leia for Halloween,
I'm gonna dress as Princess Leia for Halloween.
Now, this is something that
Tim O'Donnell has been promoting
for the past, I wanna say nine or 10 months.
How this works is you have
these conductive pointy things.
And these conductive pointy things go in there.
The premise behind this is you turn these headphones on,
put them on,
and it sends an electrical current
to the motor cortex area of your brain,
which happens to be basically overtop
the top of your head from ear to ear.
You put this on for about 20 minutes
before you do a workout,
and what it does is it activates
the part of your brain that controls motor function.
And all of the sudden your motor function
will be more finely tuned, it'll be more primed,
so that when you go and, say, swim,
or you run, or you're lifting weights,
and you're trying to build those neuromuscular connections
between your brain and your muscles,
which is very important,
and that's why you see people who grew up swimming
maintain that swim speed and that technique
throughout the rest of their life,
because all of those connections
between all of the neuromuscular pathways
between their brain and all the way down to their fingertips
have been solidified from an early age.
As we get older, it's harder to make those connections,
but this, the idea of it,
is that it's going to be primed
to accept new neuromuscular pathways.
At least, that's how I understand it.
Alright, trainiacs?
Trying to help.
More on these later.
Seeya.