Creating The Perfect Running Form - Shane Benzie - #440

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02/26/22

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66m

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Shane Benzie is a running coach, movement specialist, researcher and the founder of Running Reborn.

Shane has travelled around the world to observe and analyse African tribes, Nepalese sherpas and Arctic Inuits in an effort to uncover the fundamentals of elite human movement. He's now applying what he learned to correct and enhance the form of the world's best runners.

Expect to learn how sherpas can be so strong, why changing your running cadence isn't a solution, whether minimalist running shoes help or hinder, what Shane learned about ancestral running patterns, plus his breakdown of the optimal head position, foot strike, hand and arm relationship, breathing pattern, stride length and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (00:28) Training Extreme Surfers (07:53) Running is a Lost Art (14:45) Mimicking Movement & Form (18:48) Sherpa Strength (31:50) Ancestral Performance Comparisons (36:38) Modern Shoe Technology (43:29) Most Common Landing Mechanisms (47:44) Head Positions & Stride Form (1:01:45) Rewriting Running Movement (1:06:19) Where to Find Shane

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Positive Evolutionary Psychology - Glenn Geher - #439

February 24, 2022

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Glenn Geher is Professor of Psychology and Founding Director of Evolutionary Studies at the State University of New York and an author.

Ancestral lifestyles are a big trend at the moment. Taking influence from our paleolithic past to inform how we eat, train and move in the modern world. But taking an ancestral approach to our psychological wellbeing is much rarer and this is Glenn's work - what can insights about our past teach us about how to enjoy the present.

Expect to learn why depression and anxiety might actually be useful, why understanding the reason for emotions reduces their power over you, why it's miraculous that the education system has worked at all, why men are twice as likely to die in early adulthood than women, the danger of technology through an evolutionary lens and much more...

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The Danger Of Obsessing Over Productivity - Anna Codrea-Rado - #441

February 28, 2022

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Anna Codrea-Rado is a productivity journalist, author and a podcaster.

Productivity Dysmorphia is the persistent feeling of dissatisfaction after working, no matter how much you've got done. It's the inability to see your own success, to acknowledge the volume of your own output. And it's everywhere. I wanted to ask Anna how we can deal with this modern malady.

Expect to learn why you can't hack creativity, how Anna deals with her workaholism, what the AntiWork subreddit has got right, whether any social movement can avoid being coopted by communists, the dangers of admiring productivity gurus online, how to take pride in the work you've done and much more...

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