{"id":109,"date":"2015-02-28T22:27:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T22:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenmilitem.com\/?p=109"},"modified":"2015-02-28T22:27:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T22:27:02","slug":"strike-a-pose-the-power-of-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenmilitem.com\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"Strike a Pose: The Power of Positions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-title\">\n<h1><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mountainguerrilla.readfomag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/afghanistan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-87\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguerrilla.readfomag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/afghanistan-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Special Forces in Northern Afghanistan\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ongoing resurrection of the ancestral health movement has led to a lot of valuable lessons for survivalists and preppers, from both a health, nutrition, and longevity standpoint, as well as from a fitness and conditioning standpoint. One of the most important developments, from my perspective, has been the \u201cbarefoot\u201d or \u201cminimalist\u201d running movement. Despite a solid sub-12:30 two-mile run time throughout my time in uniform, and occasionally achieving the 100 points of a sub-11:54 two-mile run, I was never a good runner.<br \/>\nRunning hurt. I suffered shin splints, fractured tarsal and metatarsal bones, torn up ankle and knee cartilage, and spinal compressions. When I first started hearing about alternative running methods a couple of years ago, I was all ears, especially when they promised reduced incidence of injury, increased speed, and more efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mountainguerrilla.readfomag.com\/2015\/02\/strike-a-pose-the-power-of-positions\/\" target=\"_blank\">The rest of the article\u00a0HERE on Mountain Guerrilla<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing resurrection of the ancestral health movement has led to a lot of valuable lessons for survivalists and preppers, from both a health, nutrition, and longevity standpoint, as well as from a fitness and conditioning standpoint. One of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/citizenmilitem.com\/?p=109\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-s7-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenmilitem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenmilitem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenmilitem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenmilitem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenmilitem.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenmilitem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/citizenmilitem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenmilitem.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenmilitem.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenmilitem.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}