Whether it’s walking or running, this is my first time getting an average of 50% evenly on both feet.

I’ve worked diligently to improve my walking gait which in turn improves running gait.

I started with fixing my right foot function. I had a bunion and large callous on my right big toe and that was a sign that the right foot wasn’t functioning properly.

I’ve spent the better part of the last year retraining my right foot to learn to push off my big toe instead of allowing my knee to take the twist during my gait which brought about knee pain for me for many years.

I’ve also never ever been able to walk on the treadmill at a pace of 4.0 miles per hour. I’d get about 30-60 seconds in and feel all messed up in the knees and hips and my body just wouldn’t keep a good focus so I’ve always walked at a 2.7 or 3.0 at best.

This time I warmed up for 10 minutes at 2.7 and things felt great so the next 10 minutes I walked at 3.1 with my mouth closed the whole time. Nose breathing!

The next 10 minutes at 3.5 nose breathing the whole time.

The next 10 minutes consisted of the following…

• 3 minutes at 4.0 walk/run and when I felt I couldn’t keep my mouth closed to breath I moved back down (still never opened my mouth)
• To 5 minutes at 3.5 nose breathing still!
• And the last 2 minutes again at 4.0 nose breathing

The next ten minutes at 3.5 nose breathing.

The very last ten minutes were spent nose breathing during my cooldown of 3.1 mph down to 2.7 to 2.0 for the last 2.5 minutes.

That’s one continuous hour of nose breathing with the following heart rates.

I will say that after all the cycling I’ve done with higher heart rates I’ve still never had the leg fatigue that I did here. Not sore or painful but very fatigued. But yet I felt extremely invigorated!

When you’re functional economy is performing at its best, you’re entire cardiovascular event gets to improve because your body isn’t spending energy on a clunky form!

Let’s clean up our clunky form and become efficient!