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Your running form is like your fingerprint: i.e. unique. Thankfully there are common traits to great running form.

You want to make this more complicated than it is; to believe you need months of running splits at 80% max heart rate; that eating certain food will aid oxygen metabolization; that your training has to be perfect.

Scientists measured the VO2max of 122,000 53 year old subjects and then tracked their mortality. The participants were categorized into four groups based on their baseline VO2 max: “Low,” “Below Average,” “Above Average,” and “High.” During the study researchers found:

Citius, Altius, Fortius is the motto of the Olympic games. Translated- Faster, higher, stronger, i.e. improvement. Of self; of sport; of (hopefully) international relations. Improvement is inspiring. To quote Tony Robbins “Progress = happiness”. Progress is addictive; It builds self esteem; It motivates you to stick to the goal. but it doesn’t happen by accident: there are steps to improvement.

Every person who turned their fitness around put their own unique twist on it. They figured out that it ain’t the notes, it’s how you play them.

We all walk. A lot. Some people walk over 10,000 steps per day. Learning how to walk well will undoubtedly improve your life.