February 28, 2006
GOOD AND BAD HABITS IN RUNNING
Old habits die hard. - Proverb Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them far apart. - Confucious Habit is "a tendency to act in a certain way or to do a certain things; usual way of acting" as it described in Thorndike-Barnhart Student Dictionary (Harper Collins Publishers, 1992, p.496). Our habits are part of our life, influencing our lives to an extreme level in the good and bad direction. We fall into the habit of doing things not because they are good for us, but because we or somebody else got us into the habit...
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February 21, 2006
TRANSITION PERIOD IN LEARNING POSE METHOD
When you are getting something new in your life, whatever it might be (a car, a house, a computer, etc.), no matter how much better it could be than your old one, you are going through some uncomfortable period of adjustment to it. It takes time, efforts, and patience to start enjoying a new thing. You need to exert some psychological and mental efforts to accept a new thing in your life as something that you want and therefore are ready to sacrifice for it with a temporary discomfort in order to get a better quality of your life in...
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February 14, 2006
UPPER BODY POSITION IN POSE
In spite of a seeming simplicity of this topic we need to have this discussion because of continuously coming questions on this matter. What are the difficulties in understanding the upper body position? There is some uncertainty about the head, neck, trunk placement and eyes focus, which we need to discuss in order to understand their role in the whole movement such as running. What are these parts of the body doing or should be doing to make our run efficient? Does it look like as a million dollar question? There is a general approach to understanding their role in...
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February 07, 2006
IS IT WORTH IT TO LEARN POSE METHOD?
The last thing I want to do now is to start promoting and selling the Pose Method. But people ask this question every single day and I have to answer it again and again. So I have to repeat myself. What I usually say to our students at each clinic is that I am not trying to persuade anyone, change anybody's mind and sell some product. The Pose Method philosophy is a philosophy of sharing our limited knowledge of how to think, perceive and perform running. I am sure that it will help you, no matter at what level you...
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