Training With Dr.Romanov: KIDS RUNNING Archives

CHILDREN: THE IMPORTANCE OF PROPER PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
Today we bring back the topic of raising physically well-developed children. Majority of parents recognizes and understands that while everybody is born with a certain potential, whatever it is, it needs to be developed and worked on regularly. It takes attention, work and time to help your children develop the various essential skills. Before developing the skills, however, children need to develop their bodies to provide adequate physical strength to support further development, where everything is in good balance – good strong arms, legs, feet, etc. The entire "system" needs to operate in unison, for it is only as... [Continue reading...]

DEVELOPMENT OF SKILL OF MOVEMENT IN KIDS - THE EVER PRESENT PROBLEM-part 2
Just to illustrate how urgent this problem is I would like to quote a member of the Pose Tech running forum, named "roobarb" (I have no knowledge of the real name of this member) replying to my article on the web site: "I couldn't agree more with what was said. My daughters do sport but I never felt like pushing them because I watch the coaching people receive and the skill of movement is not only not taught, I don't think many coaches do even know it exists." Yes, it is the ever-present problem, which is not recognized yet by... [Continue reading...]

DEVELOPMENT OF SKILL OF MOVEMENT IN KIDS - THE EVER PRESENT PROBLEM
Certainly it is a profound problem, not the one for a short article on our website, but, nevertheless, I want to touch upon this subject even if only on a surface level just to start a topic for much longer and deeper discussions, which would possibly lead us to a better understanding and more serious steps in our discovery. I just returned from the National Basketball Tournament in Orlando, Florida for kids 14-15 years of age. It was interesting to see so many talented kids playing together, representing different states, schools, coaches’ teachings and philosophies. As much I enjoyed watching... [Continue reading...]

HOW TO TEACH YOUR KIDS TO RUN? - Part 2
Note from the editor: This article is dedicated to the parents that are coaching their offspring and could use some help. Let's talk about the basics of teaching your 10-15 years old kids to run. From parenting to coaching - First Essential Steps Admit the unpleasant reality: your kid doesn't know how to run. You can get an evidence of it by just comparing the video of your kid running with the video of an elite runner. As the guidance you can use the video analysis on the Pose Tech web site. You need to have an agreement with your... [Continue reading...]

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... [Continue reading...]

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... [Continue reading...]