Reddit reviews Born to Run

I mean yeah, I agree. I would say it looks like the two forms of cardio that help you achieve peak health are: HIIT and loooooong jogs. Both of those forms (along with a traditional vegetable / wild meat diet) seem to be what our bodies are designed for.

There's a great book on the long distance running idea called "Born to Run" by Christopher McDougall. He brings up some mind-blowing points about running. For example, we always talk about how animals are stronger, faster, have better eye-sight, etc. But that's not entirely true. There is at least one thing that we're super good at: long distance running. We can beat basically every animal at that. There's some evidence that humans for most of our history basically just ran down wild game and then ate them when they died of heart failure. It also seems we probably did it as a tribe - like everybody. The adolescent and older males at the front and the women and children jogging at a lighter pace in the back. Pretty bad ass huh?

Link to the book and McDougall's TED talk below:
http://amzn.com/B0028MBKVG

http://youtu.be/b-iGZPtWXzE

My name is Roger Darry Garamand. I've been living in Brazil for 6 years now. I started running more seriously about three years ago now, I ran in highschool/college and from 20 to 30 I didn't run at all, drank a lot, didn't do anything healthy.

The first race I did in my flipflops/sandals here. I like to say they're my "Havaiaraches" [pun/joke combining "Havaianas" a famous sandal brand in Brazil, with huaraches] I was watching a video about how to make running sandals, called huaraches, which became very famous because of the book "Born to Run" a book about how human beings were built to run, and really don't need that many things to run. We're always looking for ways to buy and sell things for whatever purpose, but running is something very simple. We can run naked with no running/tennis shoes or anything.

So, one year ago I started running "minimally", with really thin shoes, and with "zero-drop", because normally running shoes have, sort of a high heel, which isn't good for your body because you end up not running as naturally and it can result in a lot of pain in your body. So, I was simply doing things in a more and more minimalist way until I ended up watching that video about how to make huaraches at home. I started trying to make them with an old pair of running shoes I had, but as I was looking at where to place the holes, I saw that it was the same place where Havaianas already have holes, and everyone has lots of Havaianas at home.

So I took a really old pair of Havaianas, and some paracord and elastic and threw it all together. I made these last week, and ran with them this whole week and was liking them a lot. I felt totally free while I was running, and wasn't even thinking about what was on my feet. I decided to run this 100km race with them today, and it was excellent! I actually ran with two pairs, as I was afraid one might break so I had a "backup" in my pack. I simply grabbed it and threw it on the ground—I think theres a video of when I was running with just one shoe, yeah! But as I was running I was thinking, like, 'Man! It's possible to run totally barefoot, I think I'll take off the other one and run a little bit like that.'

But it was excellent during the race, it didn't give me any trouble at all, and I think I'm going to run much more with them. And you can make them easily at home! You just need to find a video online about how to make huaraches and grab your old Havaianas to make a pair of Havaiaraches!

But there are plenty of people who are never going to run like this, with sandals like this, because people are afraid to try new things, but just go out there on the trail. If you like them, use them, if you don't then leave them at home, but you don't need to be scared. People need to try new things, because thats how this sport is going to become more interesting for everyone, I think. Because you always need to push your limits, not simply to run faster, but sometimes to take up a new challenge. Try to run in a different way or with better form. No one wants to because it takes time and can be annoying, but its very important.

But for me, running is totally something to improve my mind, theres nothing better than getting out of the house and just running. Its like, all the pressure in your head, all the pressure in your life just disappears. So run! I think the world would be a much better place if everybody did a little bit of this. But it doesn't have to be running, you need to find the thing that you love to do with your own body... and, thats it!

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cool interview, seems like an awesome guy! I kinda wanna go for a run now. great portuguese for 6yrs too, my dad has been married to a brazilian for 25 year, visits all the time, and has still only mastered the word "cerveja" hahahah. also if you want timestamps for the paragraphs I can add them.

Thanks and you can be! It just takes persistence. I recommend this book for motivation. It helped get me started and keep me going.

blah blah, I read this book years ago.

Wear Sandles!!

This book was incredible, even if you have no interest in running. In it, it tells a story about Dean that is one of the most amazing things I've ever read and has carried me through some very heard times. It's a couple pages long and if I hadn't lent the book to someone I was going to take the time to type it out. I tried finding the excerpt online and couldn't. Maybe someone with better internet skills then me, can.

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Born to Run

there's something to be said for personal preference and what your own body needs. So, if your body likes a certain running style, go for it. But I encourage you to try running barefoot in the grass for a hundred meters, a couple times, and see the way that your foot forces you to land, in order to avoid pain. your foot just naturally does this. It's kind of amazing. It will most likely land on the midfoot, your head will stay so level you could almost balance a cup of water on top, your back will straighten, your knees will bend more.

I've been running for a while and have tried to find the best style for me, since I am 28, have had a few minor health problems in the past, and want my body to be healthy for a long time. I read a book recently called Born to Run, by Cristopher Mcdougall. It's REALLY good! I highly recommend it.

http://www.amazon.com/Born-to-Run-ebook/dp/B0028MBKVG/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1370383124&sr=1-1&keywords=born+to+run

at one point in the book, he makes a well-researched point that we as humans evolved to become runners, and that running actually was a huge factor in our becoming humans, and beating out neanderthals as the dominant human species. For much of our existence, we ran barefoot, and had very few injuries from running itself.

The only physical sport I've ever heard of where women at the elite level might potentially compete with men at the elite level head to head is ultramarathoning. (And I'm defining women here in a strict and no doubt politically incorrect XX sense. Sorry if I'm offending anyone.) Born to Run was an absolutely wild look into the sport. Most of it is not about female competitors, but there's some interesting discussion about why women sometimes pick up two or three of the top ten finishing spots in things like 100 mile races.

Can't see it beyond that, though. Heck, when Serena Williams was supposed to play Andy Reid in some kind of promotional thing she joked that she might win one point. IIRC that match was scrapped, though I never heard why.