Training With Dr.Romanov: PERCEPTION Archives

PERCEPTION

WHAT IS PERCEPTION?
Human history is a continuing story of accommodation and adaptation to change. How humans perceived and reacted to change guided the development of societies and shaped the world in which we now live. Perception itself — the ability to recognize and analyze change — became the fundamental tool in human relations with the forces of nature, upon which mankind’s survival depended. As human history progressed and the development of modern creature comforts like secure housing and continuous food supplies insulated us from the day–to–day vagaries of life in the wild, the need for the highest levels of perception were eroded... [Continue reading...]

DEVELOP YOUR PERCEPTIONS TO DEVELOP YOUR ATHLETIC ABILITIES
There are three main components of development of higher level athletic abilities: 1. Improving your body physically, 2. Improving your perception and 3. Improving your skill level. Everything else either falls under these three categories or is a "side effect" of development of all or any of the three. All three are very interconnected and are very important, but nothing is as powerful and significant as perception. A slight change in perception can change everything. In running, Bannister's famous Mile run in under 4 minutes (3 min 59.4 s) is one of the most famous examples of breaking barriers by... [Continue reading...]

LISTENING TO MUSIC WHILE RUNNING OR EXERCISING: PROS AND CONS
We've noticed that this topic was recently among the "hot" ones in magazines. Advice given was all "do it, it's good for you". Don't we wish it were THAT simple. An ultimatum like "don't do it" simply won't do it, so let's lay everything out in the open and you decide what it is you want and how much are you willing to pay to get it. Yes, you read it right, there is no such thing as a free breakfast, everything comes at a price. There are elemental constants and there are passing trends. While this is not... [Continue reading...]

SOUND AS A TOOL OF PERCEPTION
This is a rather interesting topic and it has occasionally come up on the forum in the past. Reading about it again recently, prompted this topic for our "Training Tuesdays" this week. What is sound and how can we use it, in our case, to learn to run better? [Continue reading...]

PERCEPTION IN POSE METHOD OF RUNNING. SUPPORT: EFFORTS AND MUSCLE TENSION
Perception of support has several characteristics or elements with which we operate, in order to produce an efficient running stride. From the point of view of Pose Method, support represents just a pivotal point or a pivoting movement of the body when the body is falling forward with the gravitational pull and through this, gaining its horizontal acceleration. To provide for this movement, we really don't need to exert too much effort. All our muscles' efforts are basically concentrated or focused on the finishing point of support, when the balance of the body is over, and it becomes necessary to... [Continue reading...]

PERCEPTION IN POSE METHOD OF RUNNING. LEANING
The importance of developing perception of leaning comes from the fact that we don't have a possibility to recognize the angle of leaning through any measurements and the only tool that we have is our perception. It is related with different things . One of the most important things is deviation of our body from its balance on support. We are basically leaning out of balance. We must first develop our perception of getting out of balance and being able to return to it. The next step would be developing our perception of getting out of balance and not being... [Continue reading...]

PERCEPTION IN POSE METHOD OF RUNNING
Leonardo da Vinci's thought about "all our knowledge coming to us through our perception" was ahead of its time and reflected his genius vision. However it never became widely spread and never guided us in our discovery of the world. With some exceptions in some schools of art, music, and painting, perception was basically never the subject of our attention for teaching or learning. The absence of this important aspect in teaching and learning of movement brought along deep negative consequences, such as too long and difficult process of learning, wrong focus in teaching, etc. The importance of developing one's... [Continue reading...]