ENFJ? ISTP? What your personality could say about your running type

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Your running style could be linked with your Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality, according to international researchers. The team asked 80 runners to complete three randomised 50m running trials at different speeds while looking at how their bodies moved. They also assessed personality traits using the popular MBTI test, which categorises people in four ways: extraversion-introversion, sensing-intuition, thinking-feeling, and judging-perceiving. The team noticed the sensing-intuition branch in particular seemed to link to running style, with intuition runners appearing to use their legs as springs in a ‘stretch-shortening’ running style, with a more dynamic and elastic running form. Meanwhile, sensing runners seemed to favour a more earthbound running style, propelling themselves forward rather than upwards.