AMA | The Running Shoe Video
Added 2024-10-24 21:50:28 +0000 UTCThis video took over 3 months to make - ask me anything about it and we'll try to answer in the next aftershow :)
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do you still run in the cold? i thought canada was like the arctic by now
Milian Ingco
2024-11-06 14:42:03 +0000 UTCSabrina, in a previous aftershow you had said 'running was garbage'. what made you get into running and how do you feel about it now?
tmuh
2024-11-04 16:10:05 +0000 UTCwhere did the joke under the fold come from (I mean the concept, not the specific joke)
Igor Matkowski
2024-11-01 17:01:15 +0000 UTCHave you tried "Barefoot" running? Some of the shoes look strange as they have toes, but if you overpronate when you run from a "normal" heel strike that is encouraged my most modern running shoes, this can help to correct that. Heel striking with no support hurts, and after a while it hurts a lot, which encourages you to shorten your stride and land more on your mid-sole. You need to take more, shorter steps when running but the impact on your joints is reduced as well.
Alexander
2024-10-30 20:43:01 +0000 UTCDo you think running on a treadmill would be a different experience?
Mitchell Bell
2024-10-28 14:04:26 +0000 UTCQuestion for Melissa - how many times did Sabrina “make” you wake up earlier than you wanted to to film and do you plan to get revenge?
Hope
2024-10-27 09:02:23 +0000 UTCOn videos like this one or the glasses one for example, you try coming up with your own solution before consulting an expert. Do you feel that process is valuable even after you consult someone? Do you ever regret taking that path, or do you not mind because your struggles make for fun content anyway?
Libris Simas Ferraz
2024-10-26 04:03:31 +0000 UTCLoved the video as always, I wanted to ask how does one find an expert as you did, did you look directly for a sports clinic? (I did'nt even know those are a thing) Or did someone recommend this to you?
Pablo Rodriguez
2024-10-25 22:59:00 +0000 UTCNear the end of this video you stated that it is in kind of a weird place because you still have the goal to run a 22 minute 5k, but you realized it may take years, yet you have to finish the video. But I think it fits the theme of the channel quite well: We got to see you tackle the question of "How to get faster at any cost?" without arriving at the definitive answer, i.e. it's still an answer in progress. And while I imagine that for some of the questions you tried to answer in your videos (e.g. why you buy books you don't read) you're probably satisfied with what you learned and won't invest more time in the future to learn even more, I'd wager that the same is not true for (most of) your self-improvement videos like this one or the one on fixing your attention span, where I image you'll continue working on improving yourself and your personal answer to each of the questions continues to evolve over time. With you also stating in a previous podcast that you'd like to explore different content in the future I'm curious if you ever considered making follow-up videos to such videos, either to confirm that the answer you had arrived at in the original video still works for you, or to present what adjustments you made since?
Manuel Bergler
2024-10-25 12:52:49 +0000 UTCHave you looked further into your hypermobility? There are a lot of related issues (comorbidities) that can be caught early, if you look into them.
Simon Law
2024-10-25 06:23:35 +0000 UTCWith you running and Taha preparing for a marathon, when will we get a race between all three of you?
Richard Tang
2024-10-25 06:14:09 +0000 UTCThroughout my life I was "active", but never an athlete. Then, at age 52, I started dating a triathlete and fell in love. With the sport. After getting through the swim, bike and run basics, I started targeting performance. My swim went from barely more than a doggy paddle to closer to being a fish. A fast fish. My bike performance, despite my average wattage being limited due to my lungs being scarred by lifetime asthma, became "plenty fast enough". Though my peak power in the saddle was limited, my efficiency was excellent. However, my body soon let me know that running had caused my latent disc degeneration to accelerate, within a year leading to debilitating nerve pain in my back and legs, namely severe bilateral sciatica and neuropathy. I suddenly went from running 55-minute 10Ks to needing a cane to get around. Leading to lots of physical therapy and a prolonged pause in my run workouts. During this time, I started learning everything I could about running. Not just from folks online, or working in stores, or providing my medical care, but also from folks who had led the life and lived to tell the tale, including successful competitive multisport athletes who then turned to coaching and a study of exercise science. I learned so much, and Laura mentioned lots of it in the video: Flexibility, strength, gait analysis, and more that I suspect didn't make the final edit, such as calibrating your RPE (Rate of Perceived Exertion) and running workout techniques for building speed and endurance (both separately and simultaneously). One thing I suspect I may have developed on my own is a reliable process for buying the RIGHT running shoes. A process that has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with whatever it is the shoemakers choose to write on the box (often including the size!), and everything to do with what feels best on your feet, reduces your running effort most, and best affects your time. Doing my process for the first time results in a 4-hour shopping trip. At just the FIRST store! It is important to get your feet into as many different kinds (brands, models, styles, etc.) of shoe as possible, even including those that "can't possibly work for you", as they each will have things to teach you about your body and your perceptions. Simply put, getting the right shoes, especially for the first time ever, will cause you to modify your running gait, as the odds are extremely high that your gait had become less efficient by having to previously adapt to the WRONG SHOES. This in turn means that your "first correct shoes" won't stay that way for long, as your adaptation will improve, and you'll soon be ready to find shoes to match your new state. Lots of shoes, many of which will become walking or work shoes when you've gone beyond their running usefulness. Don't worry, it slows down a bit after the first year or two. Though I won't go into all the details, I will mention the most critical aspect of my shoe-buying process: Do all your test runs on each shoe OUTSIDE! Unless, that is, you do all your workouts running in place or on a treadmill or even on an indoor track. There is absolutely NO SUBSTITUTE for actually getting a "real" mile in the shoes you like best, on the surface you'll actually be running on, BEFORE buying them. This need can affect the stores you visit, as some stores won't let you take shoes outside without purchasing them, so call ahead to make sure they will let you try the shoes outside. (I have ways to convince stores to change their test run policies, but that's a story for another time.) If there is enough interest, I'll provide something more detailed, a recipe you can have with you at the running shoe store. However, even with the best shoes, the best coaching, comprehensive knowledge and expert support, age is still gonna make you its bitch. I'm now 68, and I've had to re-learn running (completely rebuild my flexibility, strength, and gait) four separate times over the past 16 years, and I'm now heading into my fifth time. Running can be VERY HARD on the body, and the goal is to minimize the accumulated damage, most importantly by avoiding overtraining, bad workouts and medical deficits. That said, running is also one of the most wonderful and exhilarating things I've ever done, and I'll keep pushing all aspects of medical technology and running knowledge to let me keep doing it for as long as I possibly can. Decades longer, if I'm fortunate.
BobC
2024-10-24 23:54:15 +0000 UTC
