I get a lot of email. A lot. I host my webmail accounts (ET and HPC) on Google hosted mail and thanks to Google's spam blocker only about 1% of the spam seems to actually make it to my inbox. Today however, I received a goodie. A hall of famer if you will. This one was actually submitted to my company website (which explains how it made it past the spam guard). Under normal circumstances I'd just trash such junk mail that manages to invade my inbox but this time the email was too good to be true. Not only was it actually submitted to the company general account from a real person, it had the ridiculous subject line of "Becoming an instructor at HPC," and to top it all off the content of the email was AB.SO.LUTE.LY.RI.DIC.U.LOUS. I felt the combination of these factors warranted lifting all professional courtesies that I extend to other industry-related spam (like the e-blasts from companies that sound like Veloshity or Crappier). The email is below. Please enjoy. I also highly recommend checking out the links at the bottom of the email.

THE ONE-WAY TO RUN

Everyone runs the same way. They learned to fall forward as a baby and then learned to bring the feet forward to balance themselves. This is the way everyone does it because there is no other way to run. You can’t take one step forward without falling ahead of your foot. You release your front support and start falling forward. You know what makes you fall when you stand off center...the force of gravity. The Jack Nirenstein Gravity Running Technique is the first science for walking, running and sprinting. Variations in speed are all attained by the degree of the leg slant. During the ground time of a level pace the leg slant shifts from slightly behind the foot to a bigger distance ahead of the foot. That metric relationship adds up to an off balance stance that keeps you moving by falling from one foot to the next. It can be seen when I point it out, but you can see why scientists couldn’t understand it. Simply put, to pick up speed with each step you need to be dropping your feet behind your upper body’s center until you reach the pace you want or that which you can achieve. To stay at a level pace you need to drop your feet slightly ahead of your upper body’s center for a slowdown and then the foot is dragged behind center to pick up the speed lost. This is what everyone does naturally to run. Some people are more talented than others to shift their balance for speed and manipulate their feet to keep time with a faster pace. The full Jack Nirenstein Gravity Running Technique will give you better performance than what natural talent can achieve. The consensus among scientists is that running is a matter of pushing your body forward to walk, run and sprint. It is impossible to do because your legs are positioned under your upper body and can only push it straight up when the body is centered over the foot. You need gravity to pull you forward before you start to jump. The jump changes the forward-downward fall to an upward forward pull by the jump and gravity. The gluteus muscles cannot pull the foot back as is often stated. The quadriceps muscles pull the foot forward to absorb the landing and toss the body up while the foot and ankle roll forward. The gluteus muscles work to pull the upper body back when it lurches from the slowdown. The activation of the gluteus muscles for upper body stabilization is what fooled the scientists into thinking the leg is pulled back to run. You can use many of the other coaching techniques while running, but they do not make you run or increase your speed. You can do them only while using The Jack Nirenstein Gravity Running Technique to run. Using the others would be similar to dribbling a basketball while running, but dribbling a basketball won’t make you run either. To learn more of the Jack Nirenstein Gravity Running Technique and see videos, go to www.runningtechnique.net and www.running-justundoit.com