A form of running not as "popular" as barefoot running

[Barefoot TJ]

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/running-in-reverse/

Running in Reverse
New York Times
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Backward running, also known as reverse or retro running, is not as celebrated as barefoot running and will never be mistaken for the ...

 

[Woodsman]

My PT actually recommended this when I was being treated for ITBS. I did it a few times on the treadmill. I'm not sure if it helped or not. I didn't dare try it outside for fear of running into a tree or something. It's also supposed to help correct muscle imbalances.

 

[Bare Lee]

I started doing this on my intervals day, down at the track, along with high skipping. I do 100 yards running backwards, and 120 skipping around the curve, repeat. Running backwards is a lot harder than it looks, that's for sure. I barely break walking pace.

 

[BFwillie_g]

Take it to the hills

 

[scedastic]

" In a recent study, active female college students who replaced their exercise with jogging backward for 15 to 45 minutes three times a week for six weeks lost almost 2.5 percent of their body fat."

How much desire to lose body fat would be necessary for me to spend 15-45 minutes running backwards, three times per week??
And I'm assuming clumsy me would have to do it on a track, not on hilly, gravely chip seal with road kill strewn about and cars going 60+mph?


They probably burned the extra calories on accounta havin to make the backing up beep all that time.

Tires me out just thinkin bout it.

 

[Mike R]

I start some of my runs off with a steep, 100 ft. uphill run backwards and by the top of the trail, my quads are burning. It's the best feeling!

 

[Neil_D]

Very interesting.
If we have to develop thick skins to tackle the comments when we are barefoot running we would have to increase that again if we started running backwards as well ;-)

 

[ChasingShadows]

45 minutes jogging backwards?!!! Think I'd get injured fast! I'm sceptical that the fat loss is due specifically to running backwards, rather than just changing to a different form of exercise that's challenging the muscles differently.

 

[Bare Lee]

Maybe with their lovely fat behinds in front they became more self-conscious and ate a bit less.

 

[ChasingShadows]

If that approach worked for me I'd have a lovely flat stomach!