February 22, 2005
MUSCLE SORENESS
Muscle soreness doesn't mean that you've got a serious problem, it only means that you did something new, unknown for your body. Basically, whatever you do new and unusual, in terms of volume, or intensity, or a neuromuscular pattern, involving new coordination, your muscles will react almost in the same way - they will get more tense over their usual range and try to prevent you from doing the necessary movement. There will be a clash between the new desirable movement and the old habits of the body. As a consequence muscles got pulled and over-pulled by their own body....
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February 15, 2005
PAIN IN RUNNING. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
Chuang Tzu defines pain as "the penalty for violating the principle of nature". And what is the main goal in nature? - Survival. How does it apply to biological systems? It works through fear and pain, where soreness is an early warning, helping the body to recognize danger, necessary to avoid in order to survive. Pain is confirmation of our fear, it signals us that we are doing something wrong and need to stop and change something. Certainly, fear could appear even without any pain, just in anticipation of getting it, and prevent us from any activity in this direction....
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February 08, 2005
SKILL TRAINING
How should I train and learn the Pose Method? It sounds as two controversial things, excluding each other. Indeed, when talking of endurance training, our common sense tells us that we need to run substantial mileage in order to achieve our goals. From this point of view, any emphasis on running technique will obviously cut our mileage. This looks scary, as it seems to be bringing the loss of our training ability and aerobic capacity. We don't think of technique as a factor of improvement of our performance because the main factor there, in our opinion, is our aerobic capacity....
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