DRILL #2: FEEL THE FORWARD LEAN
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Once you’ve got a feel for taking smaller and faster steps, it’s time to add forward lean.
The first few times you try this, you’re gonna feel like falling.
Your natural instinct will be to tense up and reach out with your foot which is the opposite of what we want to be doing.
This is why rather than jumping right into running, we’re going to start with a supported wall lean to help you get a feel for which muscles should be working and how to position your body.
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DRILL #3: PUT IT ALL TOGETHER
Now it’s time to combine fast feet with forward lean to start running. Rather than focusing on your cues, remember those drills we practiced and think of flowing from one into the next.
As you get more comfortable with this drill, you can experiment with more or less forward lean to run at diffe...
