Opinion | Want to be a runner? It’s all about body composition and gait analysis
- Before you hit the track, trail or road, make sure you get your body weight measured, joints aligned and symmetry corrected
- Simply buying some shoes and going running is no longer sufficient
Remember when you bought your first pair of running shoes, put them on, went outside and started running?
In 2021, we know this to be as reckless as rushing straight into the ocean to figure out big wave surfing after buying your first surfboard. Or learning rock climbing by free soloing.
Now we have professionals that will gradually and safely prepare you for the highly technical, dangerous sport of running.
First, you must let the experts determine if you are physically capable of resisting the colossal forces running will put you under. Previous athletic experience counts for zilch here – don’t even think that having shared a swimming pool with a young Michael Phelps, or taken Serena Williams to three sets as a junior, would fast track you to your first 5km fun-run.
For a substantial fee (one should not penny-pinch when it comes to personal safety) you will be inserted into a body scanner that bombards you with Higgs bosons and produces 20 terabytes of data that will then be crunched by cutting-edge AI.
