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September 28, 2004

ACHILLES TENDINITIS: what is the problem?

Our Running Forum again raised the hot topic of “Achilles Tendinitis”, a common injury of lots of people, especially runners, which deprivates them not only of pleasure of running, but also influences their entire life. They spend a lot of money, time and efforts to cure themselves from this painful injury to be able to continue doing what they love to do, and what saves them from stress and helps them to keep their healthy lifestyle. But in many cases traditional medicine fails to help them and even after costly surgery they are still not able to resume running. Many...

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September 21, 2004

HOPPING IN RUNNING

Hopping, as everything in life and Nature, has two sides to it: positive and negative. On the one hand, it is positive, because it allows the runner to change support from one leg to the other by bouncing his body weight off the ground and releasing the foot and leg from the body weight to make it possible for it to be pulled from the ground. On the other hand, when hopping is exaggerated, the body moves too much up and down, which interferes with the forward motion. So we need hopping, as a training device, but only to the...

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September 14, 2004

HOW TO IMPLEMENT POSE METHOD DRILLS IN YOUR TRAINING

I am getting lots of e-mails about this question. Certainly it is a hot topic and I’ll try to answer it at least in general. First of all, remember that your main goal in training is to develop your skill of running together with mental and psychological parameters of it. The skill of running could be broken down to three simplest elements: taking the Pose stance, falling forward and pulling the foot from the ground, where the pull is the final action of a single running step. Whatever you are doing in training, you do it for one single purpose...

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