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Measure Your Run With RunEasi | Future of Fitness | Men’s Health Muscle

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00:00 I was dealing with a hamstring injury

00:02 after a lot of running last year, training for the marathon.

00:06 And I feel better now, but that's wild

00:10 that a device that has no context can pick that up

00:14 through, I think I ran for what, like five minutes?

00:18 - Five minutes, yeah.

00:18 - That's pretty cool.

00:20 (upbeat music)

00:22 Hey guys, men's health fitness editor, Brett Williams here,

00:28 and I am ready to get back into running.

00:31 I ran a marathon last year and wound up with an injury

00:34 that I had to rehab for quite a long time afterwards.

00:37 I feel like I'm back at a hundred percent,

00:39 but I'm not exactly sure if I'm ready

00:42 to ramp the mileage back up.

00:44 So I'm gonna connect with our friends at Bespoke Treatments

00:48 to see if they have any tools that can give me the data

00:51 that I need to know that I'm able to perform

00:53 at peak running performance.

00:55 Hey Dan.

00:57 - Hey man, how are you doing?

00:58 - I'm good, thanks for seeing me.

01:00 I have been starting to run after taking some time off.

01:04 I am not exactly sure how I'm feeling

01:07 when I'm out on the road.

01:09 So I just was wondering if you have anything,

01:12 any tools that we could use to get a gauge of my movement

01:17 and maybe find out if there's anything that I need to do

01:20 to improve how I'm feeling while I'm running.

01:22 - Yes, so we do.

01:23 We have something new and it's great.

01:25 It's called Run Easy AI.

01:27 It's a 3D gait analysis that literally fits

01:30 in your palm of your hand.

01:31 The really cool thing about Run Easy AI

01:33 that's different from other gait analysis

01:35 is it measures impact and how your body responds

01:38 to that shock.

01:39 It uses three different parameters,

01:40 which is dynamic stability, symmetry, and impact loading.

01:44 It's gonna put these three together

01:46 and then create a program for you

01:48 or give recommendations on what you should be working on.

01:51 We're gonna basically put this on your lower back,

01:53 on your sacrum, wrap it around, go for a run,

01:55 and then we're gonna measure how your body responds

01:58 to that impact of running.

01:59 - Am I gonna have to get on a treadmill

02:00 because I'm not a huge fan?

02:02 - You can use this on a treadmill

02:04 or you can do a remote session and we could go run outside.

02:07 - Great, I like that.

02:09 Let's go do it.

02:09 - Oh, hell yeah, man.

02:11 There's no prescribed program for Run Easy.

02:14 So just put on the belt, go for your normal run,

02:16 and let Run Easy gather the data it needs

02:19 to help you improve as a runner.

02:20 Dynamic stability measures the side-to-side wobble

02:23 of your hips and provides insight

02:25 into your ability to stabilize your hips while running.

02:28 A poor score can indicate poor hip control,

02:31 which increases the work of your stabilizing muscles.

02:34 This could reduce your running efficiency,

02:36 which is how much energy you consume with each step,

02:39 and increase your risk of overuse injuries.

02:42 Symmetry measures how much difference there is

02:44 between right and left.

02:46 Poor symmetry can be the cause of injury

02:49 and plays a role in running efficiency as well.

02:51 The third parameter is impact loading.

02:56 Impact loading refers to how much

02:58 we load our body while running.

03:00 Impact loading is strongly determined by the capacity

03:03 of the lower limb muscles and how they work together

03:05 to absorb the impact of running.

03:07 Run Easy also gives us data on running cadence,

03:11 which is your strides per minute,

03:13 and ground contact time.

03:15 Ground contact time is the time spent

03:17 while the foot is in contact with the ground,

03:19 from foot strike to stance to toe off

03:23 for each stride while running.

03:24 - All right, here we go.

03:32 Sorry, a little sweaty.

03:33 I felt like I was moving pretty well,

03:36 but you have some numbers there

03:37 that might tell you otherwise,

03:39 but I'm interested to see what Run Easy found for me.

03:43 - Let's check it out.

03:44 So let's go through it a little bit.

03:45 First off, you ran very well.

03:48 - Good.

03:48 - So your dynamic stability, symmetry,

03:50 and impact loading were all great.

03:52 Score is 77%, which is in the green,

03:54 and that's really, really well.

03:56 Okay, so your dynamic stability,

03:58 20.7 on the left, 20.6 on the right.

04:00 There's a little wobble in your hips,

04:01 but you're even side to side, which is great.

04:03 Your impact magnitude, more on your right,

04:05 about 1.6% on the right.

04:08 It's okay, so you're putting a little more

04:09 shock absorbing through that side.

04:11 Your impact duration, same thing, great.

04:14 66 milliseconds to 68 milliseconds.

04:16 That's a 1.5% difference.

04:19 So overall, you're very symmetrical side to side.

04:22 Let's look at your ground contact.

04:24 You spent a little more time on your left side,

04:26 basically four milliseconds more.

04:28 Small, but let's see what else we can find.

04:31 Your cadence was 165, so you're great.

04:33 You're in that 160 to 180.

04:35 If your cadence drops,

04:37 that could be a result of over-striding.

04:39 So the next time we test or throughout your testing,

04:41 if you ever see it drop,

04:42 it could mean you're over-striding.

04:43 Keep that in mind, but right now, great, you're doing great.

04:46 Your flight ratio is almost 40%,

04:48 so you're basically a gazelle.

04:50 So you're doing a great job, man.

04:51 - I try to run as fast as I can, you know?

04:54 - You know, you're doing a great job.

04:55 So let's look a little more at the recommendations

04:57 that Runeasy gives us.

04:59 If you look at the recommendations of Runeasy,

05:01 they detected that there's a higher impact

05:03 on your right leg.

05:04 To support your aerial running style,

05:06 we recommend working on your left versus right,

05:09 strength and balance in your calves, hamstrings, and glutes,

05:13 which are dominant shock-absorbing muscles.

05:15 This outcome can be a protective mechanism

05:18 when injured on your left leg.

05:20 - Which we knew.

05:21 I was dealing with a hamstring injury

05:24 after a lot of running last year, training for the marathon,

05:27 and I feel better now,

05:29 but that's wild that a device that has no context

05:34 can pick that up through,

05:37 I think I ran for what, like five minutes?

05:39 - Five minutes, yeah.

05:40 - That's pretty cool.

05:41 - I love it.

05:42 - So now we have to act on this information, right?

05:44 So because of your history and what this is showing us,

05:48 we should start working on shock-absorbing exercises, right?

05:52 So your body has to understand how to absorb shock better

05:54 to help improve this

05:55 and make you more efficient as a runner, right?

05:57 So you're not wasting energy on other things.

05:59 So the better your running efficiency,

06:01 the more you're using energy correctly,

06:04 and the more efficient and better of a runner you're becoming.

06:06 Let's start working with maybe three exercises

06:09 to add into your routine that are shock-absorbing exercises

06:12 to help build this up on your left side

06:14 so that the next time you test,

06:15 hopefully you're even more symmetrical side to side

06:18 and you're running better.

06:19 - This is just something I would do in the weight room?

06:21 - Yeah, these are three exercises

06:22 that I want you just to start adding into your routine,

06:25 maybe three times a week.

06:26 I want to start and then progress you up.

06:28 So the first exercise that I would recommend for you

06:32 is a squat drop.

06:33 Okay, I think you've performed these before in the past.

06:36 - Yeah.

06:37 - Okay? - Yeah.

06:38 - Squat drops would be a great exercise to start with.

06:41 And then we'll progress that to a little more.

06:44 We'll go into step-offs, like stepping off a box

06:47 and absorbing the shock as we go down.

06:49 And then we'll add one that has shock-absorbing

06:53 and a little more elasticity,

06:55 such as a rear foot elevated split squat jump.

06:57 Really focusing with the step-off as a soft, soft landing

07:02 so your body's understanding that ability

07:04 to absorb that shock as you land.

07:06 Hence, when you're running,

07:07 you're just landing over and over again on the single leg.

07:09 - Gotcha.

07:10 (upbeat music)

07:13 Okay, so we have the data, we have the plan.

07:17 All I have to do is put it into action

07:20 and get my running to as high of a level as it can be.

07:24 - Absolutely, let's execute this, man.

07:25 - Awesome.

07:26 - Absolutely, brother.

07:27 (bell dings)

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