… wait do y’all use your entire foot when you run? Like sure I’ll use my heel for long distances but a sprint is basically just grabbing the ground with the ball of your foot and yanking backward. The entire reason I can’t run in heels is that the heel gets in the way.
>grabbing the ground with the ball of your foot and yanking backward
Fantastic way to injure your hamstring. Sprinting is a drive not a pull. If you’ve ever trained for short distance, every single drill is about drive. Not a single drill is about reaching out with your leg and pulling the ground towards you. That’s called overstriding and is the cause of the vast majority of hamstring pulls in all sports
“Yanking” and “driving” are literal opposite actions. Pull and push.
Nobody said anything about leaning back. Even if you aren’t overstriding, put your foot on the ground directly under your hip; you can still “pull” the ground towards your rear. Which is still the incorrect way to run and likely to get you hurt.
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u/The_Ambling_Horror Jun 22 '26
… wait do y’all use your entire foot when you run? Like sure I’ll use my heel for long distances but a sprint is basically just grabbing the ground with the ball of your foot and yanking backward. The entire reason I can’t run in heels is that the heel gets in the way.