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Burn Some Fat, Build Some Stamina, See the World! by Mark Hatmaker

 


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[The below is a wee extract from our Original Roadwork volume Unleaded:Warrior Walking, the Only Cardio You Need for Combination Fighting, Physical Culture and Attacking the Outdoors.]

Injury Cause or Injury Side-Effect

·        All athletes are aging athletes.

·        Each second is one more tick of the entropy clock.

·        Nobody gets out of here alive.

·        Sure, a long life is something to aspire to but if it comes at the expense of excessive loss of health or independence, well for most that is not a future anyone wishes for themselves.

·        Athletes/humans will experience injury and ailment over a lifetime.

·        Our job as wise athletes, wise humans is to maintain [and increase where we can] our health, while kyboshing injury and ailment as much as possible.

·        While we have little control over the luck of the genetic mutation draw that is many forms of cancer or hereditary maladies, we can very much control several aspects of our day-to-day health via exercise and portion control.

·        And…we can also buck the injury odds by wiser choices.

·        If you are a Combat Athlete, you have had or will sustain an injury or two.

·        As will those who play or have played contact sports.

·        Those who engage in sports of acceleration—tennis with a turned ankle here or there, tendonitis from repetitive spinning classes and…

·        The most common ailment—achy knees, hips, et cetera from “running injuries.”

·        Outside of trip and falls or an accidental stumble, when was the last time you heard someone say, “My old walking injury is acting up”?

·        Exactly.

·        Walking is one mighty safe endeavor; we only increase its possible harm by environmental choices—not the walking itself.

·        Example: If I choose to walk in the peaceful woods or along an icy serac in the Alps—one is more hazardous than the other by dint of where I choose to walk, not the act of walking itself.

·        The walking itself is never the injury-cause, t’is the choice of terrain.

·        BTW-I am not anti-fun terrain, quite the opposite. Just pointing out, a running injury can flare from a jog around the block, whereas walking, well, that needs real risk to even get to occurrence.

·        Even then, no one would blame falling off the mountain on walking itself, it would be the fall.

·        Walking is seldom if ever the cause of injury.

Impact Loads & Wear & Tear

·        Many of the injuries associated with running are due to exposure to repetitive G-forces.

·        The average impact of a runner’s foot each time it hits the ground is 3x or more than 3 times bodyweight.

·        The heavier the runner—the higher the impact load.

·        The faster the pace the higher the impact load.

·        Walking asks for reduced lifting of the foot off of the ground, thus a reduced increase in height of center of body mass.

·        A walker’s foot is measured in the range of 1.5 times body weight per impact.

·        If we improve technique to gliding as in Warrior Walking the lift and earth contact is further mitigated.

·        BTW-If one thinks to themselves, “I am currently injury free so I’ll continue playing G-force roulette, I can always switch to walking once my running days are done,” might I suggest that is a curious gamble to be taking.

·        I’ve driven race cars with shocks, and I’ve driven those with shot suspension.

·        The shock-shot vehicle will lag and shake itself apart and in no way performs to the standards of a vehicle that experiences less shocks does.

·        For more on impact forces on the human body: Old School Fighting Weight

[I can’t say enough, with Warrior Walking we’re not discussing “getting your steps in” or the curious but admittedly rapid stride of the Olympic walker, we are talking health giving, fat-burning, injury correcting, stamina building, more efficient interface with the planet. For more info and more support on this method see here.

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