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January 31, 2005

HOW TO MAINTAIN YOUR RUNNING TECHNIQUE

Let’s say you’ve attended a Pose Clinic and spent a whole weekend working on your running technique. After the clinic is over, your real work of developing running technique starts. What seemed to be clear about running technique during the clinic now is not all that simple. How to move forward and what kind of things should you pay attention to? Which exercise to use in your training? These and many other questions will be arising on your way to the perfect technique. Where to start? Well the best thing to do would be to write down everything that you...

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January 25, 2005

WARM UP & COOL DOWN IN TRAINING

From my own experience I know that very often small elements of the training session structure, that is, the beginning, which is called warm up, and the end, which is called cool down, are omitted by many runners. Reasons for this are numerous: from efforts to save time, to just plain neglect, as of something of no importance. Both attitudes are wrong. What kind of role does a warm up play in the training session? The most obvious answer is to warm up the muscles, ligaments and tendons, and prepare the nervous and cardio-respiratory systems for the specific workout. Normally...

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January 18, 2005

FOOT BLISTERS

We discussed this topic once and again, but there still exists a necessity to return to it because of new accidents. It is a simple problem, really, and it is the result of excessive friction occurring between the skin and the shoe. When does it happen? - When the foot slides inside the shoe while landing on the ground ahead of the body, or when the foot slides to the side while pronating or supinating. There are some additional factors "helping" this process, such as: wet condition inside the shoes and an uneven surface. Blisters also develop in the point...

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January 11, 2005

The ACTION CONCEPT

From my clinic experience and e-mails of our students I picked up one big problem in learning the Pose Method technique. Despite there being only three major elements of the Pose Method our students are having difficulty in mastering them and even more then this, they complain that it is a problem for them to keep those right during longer running. Indeed, the Pose Method of Running consist of 3 major elements of technique: Pose-Fall-Pull. On the surface it is a very simple combination of elements and it makes us wonder why is it difficult to maintain it over the...

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January 04, 2005

PLANTAR FASCIITIS

Is one of the most frequent injuries in the running field and probably most uncomfortable, because of its location. The plantar surface of the foot sole is very vulnerable for different kinds of impacts during support time in running. The nature of impacts is overloading by one's own body weight or gravity, which the body weight represents. The mechanics of overloading is very simple. In some cases, it is resisting to the body weight going downward to the ground during support, when plantar muscles and tendons perform as a part of the chain of resistance. It means that the ankle...

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