April 25, 2006
HOW TO TEACH KIDS TO RUN?
It was always a very interesting topic for me since I began developing the Pose Method in the mid 70s. At the beginning of the 80s I did expert analyses of running technique of school children from the 1st to 10th grade through several schools during normal PE lessons with my colleagues, university teaches and highest qualification track and field coaches in my town in Russia. We were looking for the data of how many kids were running close to what we called a standard by comparison with technique of the best runners of that time. The results of these...
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April 17, 2006
WHAT DO WE NEED TO KNOW IN ORDER TO RUN? HOW DO KIDS AND ANIMALS RUN?
In all these conversations and discussions about how we run there is always one point missing: what is common in running of humans and animals? May be even simpler: what is common in running of kids and animals? How do they do it? Our understanding of the way we move, and particularly, of the way we run in historical retrospective, can be reduced to the conclusion that we do it by our muscle work. We are so much accustomed to this vision of running as a result of muscular power production that anything different from that immediately sounds as a...
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April 11, 2006
HEART RATE - WHAT IS IT AND HOW RUNNING WITH POSE METHOD AFFECTS IT?
Increased heart rate in running during learning the Pose Method technique is a very common occurrence and it brings up many questions about this matter. Why does the heart rate go up? Is it a normal thing? When does it come back to normal? How does this increased heart rate affect our training in the Pose Method of running? In general, the heart rate level is an indicator of our efforts and energy costs to do some work. The reasons influencing the heart rate could be divided into two major groups - physical (mechanical) and psychological (emotional). The physical...
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April 04, 2006
STRENGTH DEVELOPMENT IN RUNNING
What does it mean to have strength in running? Does it affect your ability to run longer or faster? Is weight lifting a necessarily part of training in running? Those are not simple questions. There are tons of questions like these, if we start thinking in this direction: What level of strength is enough for running? What is this strength about? Is it about muscle size or something else? How many exercises and which ones of them are enough to keep strength condition on a level facilitating your running ability. I am not going to answer all these questions now,...
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