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POSE RUNNING

BEGINNER RUNNER: GEAR CHECK
"Running boom" is not only not slowing down, it is actually getting yet another fresh bout of wind in it's sails (for the fiftieth time). And that of course is paralleled by yet another new wave of running related products. We decided to specifically address this topic because there is so much confusing information out there and so many products are unnecessarily recommended. To any beginner the task of getting the right gear could seem like a daunting challenge these days. So many products, so many brands, so many choices overwhelm our senses and normally we resort to one of... [Continue reading...]

2 REASONS TO WORK ON MAINTAINING GOOD FORM
There are plenty of reasons to work on achieving a proper technique in any sport of your choice and there are even more reasons to work on maintaining that technique. These tasks require focus and dedication, but the return on your investment of time and effort could be of unprecedented heights. One thing is for sure, if you ignore your form, it will not get any better and will most likely only get worse over time, but if you work on it, then at the very least you can bet on staying injury free and in the best case scenario... [Continue reading...]

HOW HIGH TO PULL THE FOOT UP IN RUNNING?
To know the answer to this question, one has to understand the purpose of the "pull" in running. In the Pose Method of Running, the pull is the last element of the technique that allows for the most efficient transition from one foot to the other. That's the purpose, now let's elaborate. Running is nothing but "change of support". If all we need to do is change our support, then the ultimate goal is to do that action with the least possible effort. Actively working just one group of muscles - the hamstrings - fits the purpose. So to run... [Continue reading...]

A LEAP OF FAITH IS ALL IT TAKES
This article is written for everyone who is struggling with various aspects of the Pose Method of Running. You could be a beginner or someone who has been attempting to learn the Pose Method of Running for some time. Whatever stage you're at - read on, this particular article is your "green light" to go ahead and allow yourself to be great. As the title suggests - all it takes is a leap of faith - faith in yourself and your innate abilities and talents, as well as faith in the Pose Method of Running. Yes it is so... [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...]

PREVENTING CALF SORENESS
When first starting with the Pose Method of running, majority experience calf soreness. While it is a common occurrence, it can be prevented and avoided. Follow the guidelines below to glide through the "beginner stage" and to build a lasting foundation to provide for a great running technique. START JUMPING ROPE AS SOON AS YOU DECIDE TO LEARN POSE RUNNING. This is one single best step you can do to help yourself! Start doing the jumping rope exercise as soon as you decide, and continue on while reading and learning. Start lightly and gradually increase the duration. You can also... [Continue reading...]

THE CORRECT WAY OF LANDING IN RUNNING - ON THE BALL OF THE FOOT
Why is there a battle over how we are supposed to land in running? Why has such a seemingly simple question become so complicated and the subject of discussion? During the running boom of the 70-ies through the 90-ies it has become a well-known and well-established opinion that landing on the heel is the only option to run properly, with less injuries, more economically, etc. Any other options were rejected for no obvious reasons or for some made up reasons such as: landing on the forefoot is only suitable for elite runners, etc. Well, there was no scientific proof or... [Continue reading...]

SWITCHING TO POSE IN LESS THEN PERFECT CIRCUMSTANCES
There are lots of people coming to our forum and asking what to do when they don't have a luxury of stopping running completely, and taking some time off, for example some army guys, who cannot just stop running, because they have to do it 3 times a week with their battalion, or some high-schoolers, who train with their school team. So what would be my advice for people who want to start learning pose, and want to get on the right track, but can't stop running? How and where to start and how to go on? Well, it is... [Continue reading...]

MY REVIEW: TEACHING RUNNING
Just came back from my last, one-week, trip to New York with some fresh impressions from my clinic in La Palestra, a private club, located just across the street from Central Park. An impressive city as always, full of life with lots of everything: shows, shops, restaurants, skyscrapers, crowds of people, lots of celebrities and lots of runners in the park racing and training. New York is always at the top of everything regardless of the field and is also a good litmus test for new things. Twelve years ago I was doing my presentation on the Pose Method of... [Continue reading...]

RUNNING TECHNIQUE FOR EVERYONE™: From Average Joe to Pro.
As we discussed before in the previous articles the idea of the existence of the same technique for everyone is still alien for most people. When we speak about the difference between an average Joe and an elite runner, it seems enormous. On the surface, for the naked eye it looks very different, indeed. In “average Joes” we can see slower pace, lower cadence, visible efforts applied and no harmony of movement in general, while in pro runners with their fast pace, high cadence, effortless and harmonic movement, everything seems to go just easier and smoother. Well, it is certainly... [Continue reading...]

RUNNING TECHNIQUE FOR EVERYONE™: sprinters, marathoners and everyone in between
Conventional, everyday experience plays an interesting game with our mind when it comes to our knowledge about running. We are so accustomed to our vision of “obvious“ differences in technique between sprinters and marathoners that we do not bother ourselves to get any other opinion on this matter. It seems that everything, from your personal experience to pictures from ancient Greek vases and modern art, photographs in magazines, and books, images in movies and TV tells us the same thing again and again - that there are elite runners and everyday joggers, sprinters and marathoners, etc. So our motto:... [Continue reading...]

RUNNING TECHNIQUE FOR EVERYONE™: from overweight to average.
Common vision of running as a difficult and almost impossible physical exercise for overweight people, which could crush their bones, joints, ligaments and tendons, is unfortunately confirmed by reality. In spite of obvious benefits running could bring to their cardio-respiratory system and consequently for their overall health, the possible injury side of this exercise scares away people with overweight condition. Is there no hope? Are these people condemned from running once and forever? The answer is no, there is hope and this hope is the Pose Running technique. One of the most asked questions I am faced with at my... [Continue reading...]

BASIC PREPARATIONS TO LEARNING THE POSE METHOD®
In general all newcomers to the Pose Method have similar problems. It is lack of perception, lack of general and specific strength, low level of skill of execution of the major elements of the Pose Method - pulling the foot from the ground, not enough elasticity for interacting with support (ground) in an efficient manner. There is a tremendous confusion about the easiness or difficulty of learning the Pose Method and about the simplicity or complexity of its concepts. Therefore, it is necessary to clarify, at least some basics, to prepare you theoretically for learning the Pose Method. First of... [Continue reading...]

BREATHING IN RUNNING - HOW TO...
This must be a very important question for everyone who is running, if we are returning to this topic again. The question of how to breath is not new at all and appeared in works of Plato and Galen, Avicenna and later E. Kant. They emphasized the importance of breathing for human health and particularly the way of breathing. The act of breathing was an object of intense attention in philosophy of yoga, in religions of ancient Egypt and in Buddhism. We have grasped something from the past; modern science has tried to understand the essence of breathing for our... [Continue reading...]

RUNNING ON HARD SURFACE
I guess, many people run on hard surface, but some have no other choice, but concrete as their “preference”. Conventional medicine put running on hard surface as one of the most important causes of injuries. And at first glance it seems to be a logical conclusion. Indeed, isn’t concrete really a hard surface without cushioning, which could create an impact on our body? It is difficult to say “no” in this situation. But is this true? How many people still run on the streets of New York, London, Paris, etc. and have no problem with the surface they run on?... [Continue reading...]

FALLING NOT SQUEEZING
It is typical to have this kind of discussions around running and any other movement - how to use these or those muscles to make our movement/run, bike, swim, throwing, etc, better. There is a ton of advice to "squeeze" one group of muscles or the other. On Pose Tech's running forum in discussion "Butt Running" it goes to squeeze the butt or low abdominal during running and then it goes to development of these muscles. And each one is telling that this one "helped me" and perhaps "could help you". Who is right and who is wrong? May be... [Continue reading...]

RUNNING ON SAND
Why are we going back to this topic? Well, the importance of it comes from several points: First of all, this is a useful exercise for developing our perception of support. Second, this is a very good, specific to running, strength exercise. Third, it is a very good workout for our cardio-vascular system. There are obviously pros and cons for the use of running on sand, as anywhere else, and we need to understand the positive and negative sides of it in order to make the most of it for our training in running. If we start from the negative... [Continue reading...]

FOOT POSITION ON LANDING - BALL OF FOOT
A proper foot position on landing is a very important part of your running technique but ironically it is not the one that you should focus on. Proper foot landing should become your second nature. For that to happen you need to do it many times over and preferrably do it right each time. How do you repeat one move again and again? You do drills that are designed specifically for that. But let's start from the beginning. What is the proper foot position on landing? On the ball of your foot with the body weight centered over it. The... [Continue reading...]

IS THE POSE METHOD® SIMPLE?
All these on-going discussions on our running forum about the Pose Method® create some fear and hesitation in newcomers about the complexity of the Pose Method®. So, is the Pose Method® simple? Yes, it is, on the one hand, and it's not, on the other. The concept of the Pose Method® is indeed very simple, it has just three elements: Pose-Fall-Pull. Most of our readers are familiar with these concepts theoretically and practically, but why do these simple things become so difficult? The major obstacle is people themselves, with their desire to get everything easy, almost for free. But, as... [Continue reading...]

S-LIKE BODY SHAPE IN RUNNING POSE
What is the best S-like body shape you should have in running? This seemingly simple question became a topic for discussion because of no clarity on this matter. I do not see any problems in posing any questions as long as they allow us to understand things better and clearer. This question indicates the lack of comprehensive description of the running Pose, which makes it difficult for newcomers to understand and learn the Pose Method, so it's necessary to return to its explanation with more depth and clarity. The original running Pose was based on the description of a mid-stance... [Continue reading...]

OVER-PULLING
Pulling is the second most important element of the Pose Method of Running. No matter how many times we said that pulling should just be enough to break the contact of the foot with the ground, over-pulling, or pulling with too much effort is still an issue for Pose runners. The essence of over-pulling is very simple: most runners do not feel or perceive how much is enough to break contact with the ground and in what direction the pulled foot goes. The right perception of the pulling effort and the pulling direction is still a blurry thing for runners... [Continue reading...]

RANGE OF MOTION
What is range of motion in running? Is it equivalent to stride length? These questions appear again and again on our running forum. How are we supposed to understand these terms and how are they related with our running technique? Behind these questions stand our past experience and understanding that fast running is somehow related with longer stride length or bigger range of motion. We consider these terms as something similar, almost synonymous, though have some doubtful feeling that it may not be so. But because we use them freely and interchangeably in our everyday life and nobody argues about... [Continue reading...]

TEACH YOURSELF THE POSE METHOD® OF RUNNING = $0
There were various articles written on how to start learning the Pose Method® of Running, what exercises to start with, what to do and what not to do and there is also a Beginner's Guide with step by step description of the learning process. We're not going to repeat any of that here. This article is simply an outline of quick instructions with links to everything that's already available to you free on our website. 1. The Pose Method® theory, the "platform" so to say. You have to know it before you can start learning it. We recommend getting the... [Continue reading...]

FAST RUNNING with Pose Method
When we think about fast running or how to run faster our common sense image is about muscle power, efforts, stride length, strong push off, full leg extension, some kind of huffing and puffing. These are all "symptoms", which we are familiar with and easily associate with fast running. So when we are getting into a necessity or desire to run fast we are trying to replicate these "symptoms". In layman terms, just copy them. But it is very strange to do this because looking on running of elite athletes we are observing just the opposite. There is no huffing... [Continue reading...]

SLOW RUNNING
There is no question that we need to know how to run slow, because it is the biggest part of our exercise, no matter what we are training for: racing or health improvement. But from my own experience I found out that paradoxically, it is difficult to run slow with a perfect technique. I found out that a slow run creates mechanical and psychological difficulties of executing the major components of the Pose Method of Running. And as a consequence, it could create anatomical and physiological discomfort and even lead to injuries. So what are the difficulties of slow running?... [Continue reading...]

HOW TO DO THE FIRST STEP IN RUNNING
The first step is important in any running because it sets a proper or wrong pattern of repetitive movement and basically defines the whole run. So, we could say that our run is as good as its first step. Most runners have no or very slight idea about how they do the first step. It comes from a seeming insignificance of it and most coaches and athletes are usually not paying too much attention to it. And indeed, why we should pay attention to the first step, when a whole running technique is something that we consider natural, meaning that... [Continue reading...]

FOOT LANDING IN RUNNING
There is a discussion on the Pose Tech Running Forum about the foot landing, which goes around Jeremy Huffman´s comments on this matter. I found it interesting how many interpretations and explanations came up during this discussion. There are some proper visions of this problem, but without any system of reference, which doesn´t allow us to accept this or that point of view expressed by the opponents and allows the use of quite different interpretations and “excuses” for landing this or that way. Nevertheless, the underlying reasons for all our actions are in our reality and our relations with this... [Continue reading...]

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... [Continue reading...]

POSE METHOD FOR OVERWEIGHT (OBESE) PEOPLE
I know that this topic is very sensitive and I have to come up with something helpful for people who are stuck between their desires to lose weight through running and not being able to run. This is a vicious circle for many people who got into this unpleasant situation. Is it possible to overcome this kind of obstacle? My answer is "Yes", but you have to go through some restrictions and discipline in your life. What we'll talk about is a common sense level, but it requires your commitment and mental focus. The body weight loss is a by-... [Continue reading...]

DOWNHILL RUNNING
Downhill running looks deceptively easy. However, from the experience with extensive downhill course such as Boston Marathon, it is very well known how devastating it could be even compare with the flat course. What is the problem lying beneath this? First of all, it is a skill of a runner to know how to use to his/her advantage and how to avoid trouble running downhill. What is the advantage of downhill running? Oh yeah, everybody knows how easy it is to "fly", "roll", downhill by gravity pulling until you can't handle it. So, from one side, you don't need to... [Continue reading...]

RUNNING WITH BACKPACK
An interesting topic came from our readers who are trying to fit long running workouts into their daily routine as before and after day time office job workouts. But for this matter they have to run from home to the office with a backpack, which brings some discomfort, if we do not know how to adjust our run accordingly. What kind of adjustments can we do to make running with a backpack comfortable without sacrificing anything in running technique? Nothing really should be changed in major elements of running such as Pose-Fall-Pull, jus some adaptation to the specifics of carrying... [Continue reading...]

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... [Continue reading...]

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... [Continue reading...]

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... [Continue reading...]

ABOUT THE UPHILL & DOWNHILL RUNNING SKILL
It is an old topic on our forum, but we return again to it because there are people who still suffer from not knowing how to run uphill and downhill. In spite of a seeming simplicity of this topic there is still no clarity about the skill requirement for uphill/downhill running. The purpose of this article to emphasize the most important points in skill improvement for this specific running. The essence of the skill here is the same as in flat running: how to use gravity to our advantage and how to reduce work against gravity. In uphill running there... [Continue reading...]

TIPS FOR TREADMILL RUNNING
No matter how much I dislike talking about tips, I have to do it now because there is no time to write a manual for treadmill running. I'll do it later as a separate chapter for one of the planned books. For now I would like to pretend that it is a short version of it. We prepared a video clip with Severin for our Wednesday's Video presentation, which, together with this article, will give you some insight into treadmill running. As I mentioned before, treadmill running is a good tool for use in bad weather, dangerous outside conditions,... [Continue reading...]

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... [Continue reading...]

USING HIP FLEXORS VS. HAMSTRINGS FOR LIFTING THE FOOT FROM SUPPORT IN RUNNING
Skidd 777, I am flattered by similarities you mentioned between Chi and Pose. The biggest difference, you think, you see, is that Mr. Dreyer advocates lifting the leg by using the hip flexors rather than the hamstrings. Please, get the Chi running DVD and you will be surprised to see that Mr. Dreyer doesn't "advocate" using hip flexors anymore, but shows how to lift the heels by flexing knees in air. I can't imagine how it is supposed to be done by hip flexors. From the book to the video it is a quite radical shift in "understanding" of running... [Continue reading...]

DO WE NEED TO PUSH IN RUNNING (SPRINTING)?
As I mentioned in the previous parts of this topic, the question about push off is a very interesting thing for me, very challenging and exciting. I was taught, as everybody else involved in training and racing in track and field, that push off is the cornerstone of technique and the most efficient way to best results in running. So I did perform millions of "special" exercises to develop my ability to do push off. I became very good in performing these drills, but my running abilities didn't improve too much. On the opposite, the better I got with exercise... [Continue reading...]

FOOT RELEASE ON LANDING IN RUNNING
I am returning to this topic because of the ongoing discussion on our website after our recent video presentation. The answers already given by Epberlin and Jack are very good, and I just want to clarify again the meaning of this important element of running in Pose Method. The requirement of foot release on landing means that we shouldn't focus on landing, but only on pulling, which includes several different things. One of them is minimizing to almost nothing any preparation for landing, with no muscle work for this matter, no special movement of the foot or the leg. The... [Continue reading...]

DO WE NEED TO PUSH OFF IN RUNNING?
From the beginning of the running boom in the early 70s we know that in running together with the pleasure of it we get a lot of problems with injuries. Runner's World magazine survey stated in 1977 that 2 from every 3 runners are injured every year. And this problem remains unsolved even now, only today it's happening on a larger scale, because the number of people running increased from 15 million in 70-ies to 33 million at the beginning of the 21st century. No matter how much the design and quality of sport shoes have improved, how much... [Continue reading...]

THE PRACTICAL ESSENCE OF RUNNING
The best confirmation of theory is practice, where all the concepts, rules, etc., come together in one single act of doing. In running it is changing support from one leg to the other. And real run, no matter what length and speed it is, is only one step at a time repeated through the entire distance. Therefore the whole run depends on how good and perfect this single step is. Yes, it is as simple as that. But simple doesn't mean easy, because what you have to accomplish happens not over a long time of some distance running, but during... [Continue reading...]

GRAVITY ROLE IN RUNNING
People have been thinking about the role of gravity in movement throughout the entire time of recorded history. Some of these thoughts were very insightful, as those of Leonardo da Vinci, for example, who considered the body weight to be the major cause of human (and animal) movement. Newtonian mechanics allowed us to see gravity as the main component of interaction between physical bodies and calculate different parameters of this interaction. Modern times mechanics applied to human movement, called biomechanics, got developed to a very sophisticated level and helped us to understand human movement better and successfully apply this knowledge... [Continue reading...]

TIMING OF PULLING
I just returned from my Chicago clinic and saw that the same topic appeared again on the forum. What is the proper timing for pulling the foot from the ground? It is fascinating how can this "simple" action have such complexity. I am actually glad to return to this problem again with a clearer vision and the ability to explain it better based on some different approach to understanding and perception from accumulated experience and knowledge. First of all, what is the essence of the action of pulling the foot from the ground? As we know, the pull is one... [Continue reading...]

TOP 5 BEGINNER MISTAKES
Discovering that you can run without injuries is exciting. Understanding that you have to learn how to do it - another story all together. In this installment of our weekly "Expert Advice" section we would like to point out TOP 5 MISTAKES that majority tends to make when they start learning the Pose Method® of Running. They are listed below. Feel free to follow our "BEGINNERS GUIDE TO LEARNING the POSE METHOD® of RUNNING". EXPECTING IMMEDIATE RESULTS While Pose Method® offers an injury free life in sports, better athletic results and performance, it is entirely up to you how fast... [Continue reading...]

INTERMEDIATE STAGE IN LEARNING POSE METHOD OF RUNNING
When the main perceptions of the body weight location on the ball of the foot, falling forward and pulling the support foot from the ground have been established (the beginning level), then the intermediate level starts. Alongside with extending the time of holding these elements for a longer distance, we need to bring along a new level of perception with its variations, when the speed, length, psychological and physiological conditions are changed. So, the next step will be to execute the main elements of running technique at a different level of difficulty: with resistance, for a example, with free weights... [Continue reading...]

HOW TO LEARN THE POSE METHOD OF RUNNING - Part II
In the Pose Method we learn the skills of falling and pulling, which are based on our perception of them. Falling means leaning forward from the vertical body position, where the GCM (General Center of Mass) of the body is located along the vertical line going through the ball of the foot on the ground (the support). Why is this so important? Because only from this position the body can fall forward and we can use gravity as a propulsive force to move the body forward. So in order to use gravity we need the body to be located directly... [Continue reading...]

HOW TO LEARN THE POSE METHOD OF RUNNING - Part I
Despite many discussions of this topic before, it comes back to the forum again and again accompanied by questions which require better and more detailed explanations about the process of learning. How to avoid some problems at the beginning of exploration of the Pose Method? How to make this process more efficient and pass quicker to the highest level of performance? It is necessary to remind you that the Pose Method was developed as a biomechanical model of running and the way to teach it. The conceptual base of the model states that running is the skill of using the... [Continue reading...]

STRIDE LENGTH vs. RANGE OF MOTION
Understanding the difference between stride length and range of motion continues to be an area of confusion that has been difficult for many of my students to overcome. All too often in my clinics, I find that I need to keep coming back to this point, to clarify the biomechanical and psychological differences between these two properties. I can only imagine that this misunderstanding arises from our collective attachment to the existing paradigm of what running "looks" like, or the "exo-view" of running. This "exo-view" is so engrained in us, that I am often surprised to find that my students,... [Continue reading...]

UPHILL/DOWNHILL RUNNING
This topic was discussed repeatedly, but it is still necessary to return to it again in order to clarify some more details. As we know, most runners have a very negative experience running through a hilly course and especially so during a marathon. Undulating terrain brings a lot of problems to elite, competitive, and recreational runners alike. That's why it's very important to know how to deal with this, in other words, to learn a special technique of uphill/downhill running. From the outside point of view, it may look that the uphill and downhill running techniques are different. But in... [Continue reading...]

POSE-FALL-PULL CONCEPT
So, following a weekend clinic at my training studio, where Nicholas came out and presented Pose Method Running for about 20 hours, the idea of Pose-Fall-Pull came up with some of my athletes. They were trying to wrap their heads around this trinity, and like that other Trinity, the three one. Here’s my understanding at this point: The Pose is that singular position which allows an external force — gravity — to accelerate the body. Velocity doesn’t depend on voluntary muscular action Granted, the Pose is a conscious alignment, maintained by isometric muscle involvement and intent, but essentially, it’s static.... [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...]

HOW TO MAINTAIN YOUR RUNNING TECHNIQUE
Let’s say you’ve attended a Pose Clinic and spent a whole weekend working on your running technique. After the clinic is over, your real work of developing running technique starts. What seemed to be clear about running technique during the clinic now is not all that simple. How to move forward and what kind of things should you pay attention to? Which exercise to use in your training? These and many other questions will be arising on your way to the perfect technique. Where to start? Well the best thing to do would be to write down everything that you... [Continue reading...]

WHAT KIND OF STRENGTH DO WE NEED IN RUNNING?
If the question “Do we need strength in running?” is not a question anymore, then the question, “What kind of strength we need there?” is still unclear. That is why I would like to discuss this topic in a short description of the logic of strength exercise use in running. It is no secret that muscle strength is necessary in running to provide for the body’s ability to interact with the ground while the body moves from one support to the other. During support time gravity manifests itself as the body weight and muscles provide for its ability to interact... [Continue reading...]

THE STRIDE FREQUENCY
Despite the fact that stride frequency is known as one of the most important parameters of running technique demonstrated by all elite runners, the difficulty with stride frequency or stride cadence is the most common problems in running. First of all, it is difficult and uncomfortable to do a change of support very often, because the rate of movement is unfamiliar to our muscles. Second, the stride frequency is perceived as an isolated movement, not related to the whole running process. Third, we don’t know how to achieve high stride frequency as a movement and command. In order to solve... [Continue reading...]

HOPPING IN RUNNING
Hopping, as everything in life and Nature, has two sides to it: positive and negative. On the one hand, it is positive, because it allows the runner to change support from one leg to the other by bouncing his body weight off the ground and releasing the foot and leg from the body weight to make it possible for it to be pulled from the ground. On the other hand, when hopping is exaggerated, the body moves too much up and down, which interferes with the forward motion. So we need hopping, as a training device, but only to the... [Continue reading...]