Vou just laced up your sneakers and you’re ready to go for your morning jog. And as usual, you took your smartphone because it is now impossible for you to run without the refrains of Beyoncé in your ears (it is true that it gives punch to your stride!) or because you follow, thanks to certain applications, either your route and your mileage, or your health statistics, or even your voice sports coach. So, of course, having your phone on you is practical (you are never safe from an accident), but be careful, it is not advisable to keep your smartphone in your hand while running.
The “weight” of the device, as light as it is, can cause many problems. And first of all a gap between the upper limbs; To run well, you must use both arms and both hands to build momentum and maintain speed with good balance. But with the weight of the phone in one of the hands, the “bearing” arm no longer swings as if it were free of any weight constraint, the gesture becomes less spontaneous and without you realizing it , the rhythm of the race is no longer natural. As a result, this creates an imbalance of the whole body, because to hold the phone, you have to contract the muscles of the arm and therefore those of the shoulder, at the risk of causing micro-muscle pain, tension, or even tendonitis.
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In addition, the lower part of the body will then spontaneously seek to correct this imbalance, which also involves possible recurring injuries to the hip, back and knees. Thus, and over time, especially for those who go out several times a week, the orientation of the body will change by leaning a few millimeters on the side of the laptop, which is far from negligible!
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To avoid a cascade of physical glitches and repeated appointments with the osteopath, it is better to invest in a flat banana or a running belt, which you hang at waist level to hold the phone, in order to have as little impact as possible. Because, here again, even the armband is to be avoided, an imbalance of posture will necessarily settle in to compensate for the weight of the laptop. While a pocket on the abdomen will have no repercussions.
Equipping yourself with suitable accessories is not insignificant. Because running your smartphone in your hand can also be distracting. Instead of being focused on his stride, we are, of course, more tempted to watch the messages or calls that arrive. And there, inevitably less vigilant, it is the fall that threatens… Good listeners, in the headphones, hello!
