The romanticized notion that humans are “born to run” has buoyed the so-called running boom of the past 50 years: well-intentioned fitness enthusiasts lacing up their cushioned shoes and plodding down roads and trails in pursuit of the runner's high, a trim physique, and the fountain of youth.
Unfortunately, born to run is a big, fat ruse: a marketing gimmick and a gross misappropriation of evolutionary biology insights about our Homo sapiens genetic attributes for endurance.
While any movement away from a sedentary-dominant lifestyle is laudable, the truth is that humans are actually born to walk, not run.
For the vast majority of enthusiasts, running, even slow-paced jogging, is far too physically, metabolically, and hormonally stressful to promote health, weight loss, or longevity.
Alas, the elevated, heavily cushioned modern running shoe enables ill-adapted people to run with poor technique, increased impact trauma, and a truly embarrassing rate of chronic overuse injuries.
Born to Walk helps reshape fitness culture to reject flawed and dated “no pain, no gain” ideals, and replace them with a simple, accessible, sustainable program to increase general everyday movement, improve aerobic conditioning the right way, avoid the risks of injury and burnout associated with running, and promote a healthy, happy, energetic, long life: one step at a time.
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