Re:Which Type of Exercise Is Best for the Brain?
by kazinator on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @06:27PM
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> Children, when running, do not land on their heels.
You must have never lived in a wood frame building, below a family with kids.
Re:Which Type of Exercise Is Best for the Brain?
by mrexroad on Thursday February 18, 2016 @12:57AM
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Ironically, living in a small house with hardwood flooring applied to car-decking (t&g 2x8 subfloor, atop 4x8 girders 4'oc -- loud AF), my kids naturally began to avoid striking their heel after a year or two.
The sound transmission through flooring here is unusually bad though. But we never allowed shoes indoors anyway.
Re:Which Type of Exercise Is Best for the Brain?
by Shog9 on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @06:39PM
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What an odd statement.
Have you ever lived in a place where children routinely travel on the ground, barefoot? This would be a useful scenario to bring to the table here.
Kids trapped in an attic... not so much.
Re:Which Type of Exercise Is Best for the Brain?
by kazinator on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @06:50PM
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I've never seen any children anywhere, that didn't create the impression that 400 pound, hooved animals are thundering by.
I admit that I haven't been to the Highlands though, where True Scotsmen's children can be observed.
The heel does not protrude when running.
Humans have to consciously learn a proper technique for running to avoid misusing the heel. Doing "what comes naturally" is just horrible.
Children, when running, do not land on their heels. Heel-landing is a learned development caused by heel-heavy shoes. Children land on the front/middle of their feet.
By contrast, an animal doesn't have to study running technique. A cheetah doesn't have to think "Gee, I'm doing this wrong according to some pages I Googled; I should change my form so that my center of gravity is rather such and such, and my footstrike is altered in such and such a way."
Cheetahs do have to think about how to run. Have you ever seen cheetah cubs?
I should change my form so that my center of gravity is rather such and such, and my footstrike is altered in such and such a way."
Try running without shoes. You'll learn very quickly, without google, not to land on your heels. It's the same way that animals like cheetahs learn to run-by doing.
The sheer thickness of the meat and fat on the lower leg of a human tells you that we have evolved away from running. Running requires a stick-like lower appendage, with all the muscle higher up.
Every claim in that paragraph is wrong.