The Metabolic Case for Cadence Chaos: Why Fixed Rates Fail the Easy Run
The Metabolic Case for Cadence Chaos: Why Fixed Rates Fail the Easy Run The running community is obsessed with a number. It’s the holy grail of gait: 180 steps per minute. Popularized by Jack Daniels and mythologized by the 1980 Olympics data, this figure is treated as a biological imperative for injury prevention and efficiency. But this fixation is a trap. It treats a complex biomechanical variable as a static dial you simply turn to the right. ...