Bricks are back! Gotta love 'em!

[Bluetree]

My knees have a bad habit of falling inwards, so I have done many running drills that focus on KNEE OUT! HA!

Bad habits are hard to break... thus, my running coach had me stop running for a few months this year and focused on retraining my body to the new form slowly. I would run in slow-mo to get the form perfect. So, that way, my body would know the right form, when it was time to run.

Oh yea! My coach was telling me of long-term studies that were done regarding male and female PCL/ACL injuries, how they got them and what kinds were common for each gender. The results were that male injuries came mainly from trauma/impact, whereas females became injured more from repetitive motion/daily tasks.
It was surmised that women are taught as young girls to move the "female" way, you know... demurely, like to bend delicately, keep the knees together, etc and it's simply the WRONG way to do things. No one really took much notice of that we're standing, lifting, sitting, running, jumping, landing, etc incorrectly!
When young girls were taught the proper way to move (like BOYS) the incidents of knee/back injuries decreased dramatically when they got older.

It's weird to have to think (and rethink) things that are so automatic. Even as I'm sitting here typing, I'm fighting the urge cross my legs... bad for the knees!