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December 27, 2005

HOW DO WE KNOW THAT WE RUN RIGHT?

In the absence of a video analysis and the feedback of Pose Tech coaches you basically have to rely only on yourself in order to keep your technique proper. What can we use to provide self control and correction to maintain good technique? How do we recognize the right and wrong technique in our running? We have only our mind and our senses or our perception in our possession to recognize the right or wrong technique perception. It comes as a perception of time, space, muscle efforts and tensions, body weight location, pressure on the ball of the foot, sound,...

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December 20, 2005

THE ROLE OF TOES IN RUNNING

The existing understanding of the role of toes in running is based more on our imagination and "common sense" approach rather than on any serious science research. What we think to be the function of toes in running is coming from our vision of running, where the picture of the "hard work" of toes in the so called push off is the most crucial element of running with its own name: toe off phase. In the old understanding of this element of running, it is the stage where the most powerful thrust, forward propulsion is taking place and toes, especially...

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December 12, 2005

MORTON'S NEUROMA

Q: I am interested in trying your technique. I have been bothered by neuromas in my feet . Does your technique work if you have neuromas? It appears that your technique would put more pressure on the forefoot? Thanks for your help. John A: A neuroma is a swelling of a part of a nerve caused when the nerve gets pinched. In the foot it is called a Morton's neuroma, an interdigital neuroma, or a plantar neuroma. It usually affects the nerve between the third and fourth toes or, less often, the second and third toes. The swelling, or neuroma,...

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December 06, 2005

TO PUSH OR NOT TO PUSH?

"To be or not to be? This is the question" This is how the push off problem looks for many people participating in this thread on the Pose Tech running forum. This reminds me of the Russian revolution, where everything was divided into two extremes: either you are with us or against us. Fortunately the world doesn't exist in this polarized reality, but on the opposite, it exists as a cooperative, integrated system, where everything can have its own place. One of the best examples is the third law of Newton: every force has an equal and opposite force, both...

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