September 27, 2005
INJURY FREE RUNNING - The Alluring Promise And the Disillusioning Truth
I was forced to write on this topic by my daughter Lana, who felt that we were leaving this area in a shadow, in an equivocal, illusive state, as if it's something that people can handle by the way, by some magic trick, pill, new shoes, equipment, overnight change of something or by some "simple" formula, etc. I could continue this list forever, but I guess you get the idea. The underlying ground for our discussion should be an old saying, "there is no such thing as a free lunch", which I often heard from my good friend, a very...
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September 19, 2005
DO WE NEED TO PUSH OFF IN RUNNING?
From the beginning of the running boom in the early 70-ies we know that in running together with the pleasure of it we get a lot of problems with injuries. Runner's World magazine survey stated in 1977 that 2 from every 3 runners are injured every year. And this problem remains unsolved even now, only today it's happening on a larger scale, because the number of people running increased from 15 million in 70-ies to 33 million at the beginning of the 21st century. No matter how much the design and quality of sport shoes have improved, how much...
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September 12, 2005
THE PRACTICAL ESSENCE OF RUNNING
The best confirmation of theory is practice, where all the concepts, rules, etc., come together in one single act of doing. In running it is changing support from one leg to the other. And real run, no matter what length and speed it is, is only one step at a time repeated through the entire distance. Therefore the whole run depends on how good and perfect this single step is. Yes, it is as simple as that. But simple doesn't mean easy, because what you have to accomplish happens not over a long time of some distance running, but during...
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September 06, 2005
GRAVITY ROLE IN RUNNING
People have been thinking about the role of gravity in movement throughout the entire time of recorded history. Some of these thoughts were very insightful, as those of Leonardo da Vinci, for example, who considered the body weight to be the major cause of human (and animal) movement. Newtonian mechanics allowed us to see gravity as the main component of interaction between physical bodies and calculate different parameters of this interaction. Modern times mechanics applied to human movement, called biomechanics, got developed to a very sophisticated level and helped us to understand human movement better and successfully apply this knowledge...
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