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294: Expert Edition: Assoc. Professor Max Paquette: Running Surface Interactions

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The Role of Stiffness in Running Performance

The concept of leg stiffness, many will have heard of it and how does it work. It's basically this idea of you know using the spring mass model which isBasically the whole the whole body as a mass, and then the lower them serves as a spring. And so when you strike the ground, your lower than joints, including the muscles and tendons and other soft issues sort of the act as a bit of a of a spring to sort of dampen the impact.

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