Sprinting is a Reset
Apr 13, 2025
In one of my latest BodCasts, I spoke about sprinting. If I’m being honest, sprinting is my favorite RESET. Yes, sprinting is a RESET for me on multiple levels. Sprinting is the highest form of our gait expression, and when we spend most of our days living in our design (Pressing RESET), sprinting can be very good for us. Like crawling, it can connect both of the hemispheres of our brain and connect our bodies together, making us strong, resilient, and healthy.
However, if a person doesn’t live in their design and their body is not well connected (or prepared), sprinting may not be a RESET, as it can cause more harm than good. So, if a person isn’t breathing the way they were designed, if they don’t have head control, and if they don’t consistently use their four limbs in their gait patterns, they may not have the reflexive foundation of strength they need for sprinting to be a safe and effective RESET.
All that to say, if you want to experience the ultimate expression of your design, spend some time living in your design. Breathe the way you were born to breathe, make sure you have control of your eyes and head, and spend some time crawling, marching, skipping, and walking. This gets your body ready to sprint, and this is what makes sprinting a RESET.
I said sprinting was a RESET for me on multiple levels. Physically, it does what crawling does for me, allowing me to train and experience speed and power. But mentally, it restores me. It makes me feel invincible and young. Feeling the wind blow through my hair, hearing the wind rush by my ears, hearing my feet rapidly go “bap, bap, bap, bap, bap…” I LOVE it. It is so exhilarating.
Currently, I only sprint twice a week, Thursdays and Sundays. If you’re curious, and if it’s helpful, I’ll leave my sprint routine here. If you decide to try it, make sure you’re ready for it and begin at 50% effort. Be patient and work your way up to going full speed over weeks. Let your body adapt - be curious and not aggressive. You’ve got time…
Warm-up:
A- Skip 30 skips, walk back.
Repeat twice more.
Bounding (like a touchdown showboat run) 30 steps, walk back.
Repeat twice more.
Fast Hands, Fast Feet (very small and fast movements, treat the ground like it’s hot) for 60 steps, walk back.
Repeat twice more.
Eight, 80-yard Sprints:
Sprint 50%, walk back.
Sprint 50%, walk back.
Sprint 50% to 75%, walk back.
Sprint 50% to 75%, walk back.
Sprint 75%, walk back.
Sprint 75%, walk back.
Sprint 75% to 100%, walk back.
Sprint 75% to 100%, walk back.
Cool-down:
Fast Hands, Fast Feet (very small and fast movements, treat the ground like it’s hot) for 60 steps, walk back.
Repeat twice more.
Bounding (like a touchdown showboat run) 30 steps, walk back.
Repeat twice more.
A- Skip 30 skips, walk back.
Repeat twice more.
Again, if you are new, just practice going 50% for all the sprints. A great way to add extra “safety insurance” is to find a hill you can sprint up. Hills are wonderful sprint mediums. They help develop deer-like power, and it’s harder to get hurt sprinting up a hill. Hills govern you.
Anyway, I love sprinting. It is our superpower movement, and it can make you feel superhuman. When you’re ready for it. You have to be ready.
So, Get ready. Get set. Go!
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