Quotes About Movement

Maybe Ron Clarke wasn't being poetic in his description of Zatopek—maybe his expert eye was clinically precise: His love of life shone through every movement. Yes! Love of life! Exactly! That's what got Vigil's heart thumping when he saw Juan and Martimano scramble happy-go-luckily up that dirt hill. He'd found his Natural Born Runner.

From then on and for the rest of his life, Paddy's motto was Solvitur ambulando: "When in doubt, walk.

dice el Demonio—, uno se hace viejo porque deja de correr".

We've become obsessed with things that affect the way we look, instead of the way we move.

The hands are swinging doors, built on the fortress of legs," the great Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man liked to tell his students. "Ip Man did not move a great deal," one

So simple," he said. "Just move your legs. Because if you don't think you were born to run, you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

Es hace poco que contamos con la tecnología necesaria para convertir el holgazaneo en una forma de vida; hemos cogido nuestros cuerpos vigorosos y resistentes de cazadores-recolectores y los hemos dejado caer en un mundo artificial de ocio.

Y como todo lo demás que amamos en esta vida -todo aquello que, sentimentalmente, llamamos nuestras "pasiones" y "deseos"-, es realmente una necesidad ancestral codificada. Todos nacimos para correr; todos nacimos porque podemos correr. Todos somos La Gente que Corre, como siempre han sabido los tarahumaras.

de la misma forma que alzamos los brazos automáticamente cuando resbalamos sobre hielo, las piernas y pies instintivamente caen con más fuerza cuando perciben una superficie blanda. Cuando corremos con zapatillas con protección, los pies van a través de las suelas en busca de una superficie dura, estable. «Llegamos

Me doblé sobre la cuerda, agitando las piernas conforme lo arrastraba. Soltó la cuerda y salí disparado. «Bien —dijo—. Cada vez que corras, recuerda la sensación de la cuerda tensada. Ayudará a que mantengas los pies debajo de tu cuerpo, tus caderas dirigidas hacia delante y tus talones fuera de la imagen.» Eric

los mejores maratonistas del mundo corrían como niños de jardín de infancia. «Si ves a niños corriendo en el patio de recreo, notas cómo sus pies aterrizan justo debajo de ellos mismos y luego se impulsan hacia atrás

One of the first and most important lessons he learned from the Tarahumara was the ability to break into a run anytime, the way a wolf would if it suddenly sniffed a hare.

Just move your legs. Because if you don't think you were born to run, you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

Relax enough, and your body becomes so familiar with the cradle-rocking rhythm that you almost forget you're moving. And once you break through to that soft, half-levitating flow, that's when the moonlight and champagne show up: "You have to be in tune with your body, and know when you can push it and when to back off," Ann would explain.

Running is just a controlled fall, so how do you steer and keep from smacking down on your face without a weighted rudder, like a kangaroo's tail?

We were born to run; we were born because we run. We're all Running People, as the Tarahumara have always known.

chequeando mentalmente mi lista de tareas (flexiona esas rodillas… pasitos de pájaro… no dejes huella)

Perhaps all our troubles—all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome—began when we stopped living as Running People.

Correr fue el superpoder que nos hizo humanos, lo que significa que es un superpoder que todos los seres humanos poseen. —Entonces,

Uno no deja de correr porque se hace viejo —decía siempre el Demonio de Dipsea—, uno se hace viejo porque deja de correr…» —Y

The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket.

Humans really are obligatorily required to do aerobic exercise in order to stay healthy, and I think that has deep roots in our evolutionary history," Dr. Lieberman said. "If there's any magic bullet to make human beings healthy, it's to run.

Cuando estoy metida en una carrera larga, lo único que importa en esta vida es terminar la carrera. Por una vez, mi cabeza no está diciendo bla bla bla bla todo el tiempo. Todo se calma y fluye. Soy solo yo y el desplazamiento y el movimiento.

Podríamos, literalmente, poner freno a las epidemias con este único remedio —me dijo. Levantó dos dedos haciendo el signo de la paz, luego los giró lentamente hacia abajo y empezó a moverlos como si estuvieran trotando en el espacio. El Hombre Corredor. —Así de sencillo —dijo— solo moviendo las piernas. Porque si no creemos que hemos nacido para correr, no solo estamos negando la historia, estamos negando lo que somos.