The Lost Art of Running Quotes

“the way we live has a defining influence on the way we move. What’s more, it happens in a far more alarming fashion than most people think.”
― Shane Benzie, The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement

“Persistence hunting was the key reason why our ancestors thrived above the otherwise stronger and smarter Neanderthals. As the paleoanthropologist Daniel Lieberman put it, the first professional athletes were hunter-gatherers.”
― Shane Benzie, The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement

“I run tall,’ he told me. ‘It makes me stretchy so that I can run fast.”
― Shane Benzie, The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement

“I couldn’t get my head around why we would use this as a marker for how we should naturally move. What about when we got off the treadmill and started to run outside? What about when we needed to twist to get around an obstacle, step over a tree root or deal with rocky, muddy or undulating terrain? Surely all of those factors affected our movement? I resolved that there must be another means to study the best way for us to run.”
― Shane Benzie, The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement

“If you spend your day at a desk, the best investment you could make to improve your running is not a new pair of trainers or a fancy new watch, it’s a standing desk.”
― Shane Benzie, The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement

“The underlying message is simple: we are in training every day of our lives. We must work on that everyday posture so that when we want to be dynamic we are able to do it with ease.”
― Shane Benzie, The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement

“If you go to work tomorrow and set to with only 50 per cent of the information you would normally get, you’re going to start making some pretty rubbish decisions.”
― Shane Benzie, The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement

“Finally, as we look at the various cues, be mindful that they all work in conjunction with each other. If you take just one element of your form and work on it in isolation – as so many people do – I very much doubt that you will find it an easy process.”
― Shane Benzie, The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement

“We then become extremely efficient at moving inefficiently and, as a result, changing those habits gets harder.”
― Shane Benzie, The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement

“he would only train for three hours a week and, during those sessions, would focus solely on his running technique.”
― Shane Benzie, The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement

“Such is his contribution to the area that the street that runs up to the boys’ school is now named O’Connell Street.”
― Shane Benzie, The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement