Did you know up until the age of five, the interaction between our movement and gravity is subconscious? After the age of five, we begin to “learn” how to use our muscles, which is an incredible disruption to our relationship with nature.
The subject of training for specific distance in running is not as simple or “obvious” as it might seem. Whereas doing sprints while getting ready for 100m seems logical and reasonable, just because you’re preparing to run a marathon, doesn’t mean you should run one during training.
Your training program is one of the most important parts of your training regimen. Training process is a very individual and specific structure of volume, intensity and exercise used in training, distributed over days and weeks of the cycle, allowing to achieve cumulative effect at the end of the cycle in a selected direction (exercise, distance, event).
I see online and overhear sometimes discussions of muscles and I wonder if people participating in the discussion are conducting a scientific experiment, putting forth a hypothesis or are they participating in a theoretical discussion of human anatomy. It is so popular to throw around scientific terms and big words. However, all of that is […]
In the noise of discussions and debates about technique, one of the most vital aspects of training for runners always gets lost – strength conditioning. It is so important that I can not emphasize it strongly enough. Lack of adequate strength is a sure road to underperformance and injuries. Lucky for us, while building strength […]
If you were to attend one of the Pose Method seminars on running technique you’d hear something many don’t expect to hear – an instruction of the participants to not focus on their footstrike. “Forget about footstrike! Pull, pull, pull!” If you’ve already attended the course, you know why, and for everyone else, the answer is simple –
One of the most important yet simple and thus overlooked and undervalued aspects of Pose Running is the springness position, aka the S-stance. So it comes as no surprise when you see someone doing the ‘figure 4’ aka the Running Pose while standing on a completely straight leg with a locked knee. The Springness Position, aka the […]
Effortless running is achieved through biomechanically proper technique because such technique works with, and uses, the natural forces such as gravity. By its very definition, effortless running requires, or should take, less effort. So, if all we need to do is change support in order to run, then the ultimate goal is to do that action with the least possible effort.
The wheel is a complex mechanism with three mechanical properties that have significant implications for human movement.
In Pose Method we use specific running technique drills to get the body into the right biomechanical structure of movement.