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Article #1519Re: Why are Kenyans so fast (rebutal)
From: Tord G.M. Malmgren
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:05
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:05
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In article <1k0strINNnq7@savoy.cc.williams.edu>, Thomas.C.Pinckney@williams.edu writes:
> No one has yet replied to my question about the physical
>benefits of spending childhood barefoot. Am I completely off the
>wall?
okay, I'll bite.. again...
it is believed that if you're very active when you're a little kid your
body will get more tolerant to stress. The kids in Kenya run all their life
from they're small kids, so their bodies are very well adapted to stress,
and therefore they can train harder, while most people in the western world
sit and get weak, go everywhere by car, and so on...
As for running bare-foot, I've only read an article in Runner's World that
it's bad for your feet to run with shoes...
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Department of Physics, University of Stockholm -- Sweden (Northern Europe)
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Newsgroups: rec.running Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!kth.se!vand!TORDM From: tordm@vand (Tord G.M. Malmgren) Subject: Re: Why are Kenyans so fast (rebutal) Message-ID: <1993Jan25.150516.21970@kth.se> Sender: usenet@kth.se (Usenet) Nntp-Posting-Host: vand.physto.se Reply-To: TordM@VanA.PhySto.SE Organization: Department of Physics, University of Stockholm -- Sweden References: <1jp38rINN9fb@savoy.cc.williams.edu> <OYSTEING.93Jan23113055@garm.idt.unit.no> <FKITTRED.93Jan23200913@spchp13.BBN.COM>,<1k0strINNnq7@savoy.cc.williams.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:05:16 GMT Lines: 23