Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Attention runners: The next time you go out for a jog, you might want to strap a light resistance band between your feet. This rather quirky but oddly effective hack, according to UC Santa Barbara mechanical engineer Elliot Hawkes, could make you a more efficient runner by approximately 6.4%.
“In running, the energy is mostly wasted,” said Hawkes, who conducted research on this topic while at Stanford University. His paper appears in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
![A jogger runs on the beach on the cover of the Journal of Experimental Biology.](https://engineering.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_left/public/images/news/Elliott_Hawk_running_hack_xperimental%20Biology%20cover%20copy.jpg?itok=AeKmkPu0)
A jogger runs on the beach on the cover of the Journal of Experimental Biology.