POSE IN PRESS A collection of articles about Pose Method and Dr.Romanov in various publications.
SUNDAY MAIL (AUSTRALIA)
February 23, 2003
Runners Turned Into Poseurs
by Selina Steele
POP icon Madonna said it best -- strike a pose. And this, according to Olympic triathlete Andrew Johns, is the secret behind a running technique set to revolutionise triathlons. In a bid to end Australia's domination of the sport, Johns and his British teammates have called in a Russian running coach to their Sunshine Coast training camp.
Dr Nicholas Romanov, who has worked with the British and American triathlon
teams, has spent 30 years developing a running technique called the Pose
Method.
It's a technique that Johns -- British-born but Australian-raised -- says
has cut minutes from his run leg.
"Unlike the swim and bike leg, no one teaches you how to run. They teach
you the technical side of the swim and ride leg but running comes down to
conditioning,'' Johns said. As an elite athlete you're always looking for small improvements but this
technique has cut three seconds off my 400m times and up to a couple minutes
off my half-marathon times.''
Using the technique, Johns finished third at last year's World Triathlon
Championships while his English teammate Leanda Cave won gold. Johns said
the British triathlon team hoped the method would end Australia's supremacy
in triathlons.
"Leanda (Cave) and I have worked quite a bit with Nicholas (Romanov) but
this was a chance for some of the other guys to learn about the technique,''
Johns said.
Using Noosa's Sunshine Beach as their training track, the British triathlon
team spent the week with Romanov.
"This method is all about letting gravity do the work,'' Romanov said. "By leading with the body, you'll be in a position to let gravity drive you
forward. In turn, you'll save energy. Running technique is the same for all
athletes. The Pose Method vertically aligns shoulders, hips and ankles with the
support leg while standing on the ball of the foot. This creates an S-like shape of the body. The runner then changes the pose
from one leg to the other by falling forward and allowing gravity to do the
work.
The support foot is pulled from the ground to allow the body to fall
forward, while the other foot drops down freely, in a change of support. This creates forward movement, with the least cost or energy use and the
least effort.''
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