B-skips, seat kicks and ankling: Chari Hawkins boils running form down to three
The Team USA heptathlete also took a stadium workout up to altitude and set viewers a minute of high knees at 180 beats per minute.
Chari HawkinsStory of Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
The 3 Best Running Drills to Master Your Mechanics
Four uploads, all drills. Chari Hawkins, the Olympian heptathlete, spent her week doing what her channel does best: taking the warm-up work of track and field and handing it to anyone with a pair of legs.
The newest, "The 3 Best Running Drills to Master Your Mechanics," is aimed at runners drowning in options. Her answer is three: the B-skip for the cycling motion of the leg, seat kicks to bring the stride up under the hips, and ankling for quick feet and stronger tendons. Barely half a day old, it is already moving faster than anything else on the channel.
Before that came a stadium session at altitude, where the description tells runners to judge by effort rather than split times and to drink more than they think they need, and a barefoot routine for the day the spikes stay at home.
The week's most watched upload, though, was a challenge: one minute of high knees synced to 180 beats per minute. Viewers keep pointing out that she talks the whole way through. One runner in his seventies wrote that he tried it straight away and will build up to the pace, and another suggests doing it with your back to a wall to keep the cadence honest.
The channel ran a little busier than usual, nearly two million views across the seven days. Among the fitness channels near her size, instructor_bensei had the bigger week, while Kinobody and Adam Frater were quieter than their norm.
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What viewers say
The comments under "You Last 1 Minute at 180 BPM? (High Knees Challenge)"
Bloody hell and she talks while doing that!! Such a beast.
@SK_FalcSee it on YouTubeGreat coach.... I had to do it right away. Couldn't do the pace but ill build up to it. (((Life long runner but slowing down a lot in last 3 or 4 years. Im 76))))
@billschoff2488See it on YouTubeI do this with my back to a wall. Great for cadence
@ben4qSee it on YouTube
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The videos drawing views on Chari Hawkins right now
- Channel
- Chari Hawkins
- Subscribers
- 720,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 1,940,662
- Videos published this week
- 4
- Video published
- October 5, 2026
- Video views so far
- 29,963
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Here is how Chari Hawkins' channel and her four new drills moved over the week.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which American heptathlete won Olympic gold in 1988 and 1992 and still holds the world record?
Jackie Joyner-Kersee won heptathlon gold in Seoul and Barcelona and set the world record of 7,291 points in 1988.
