Dr. Nicholas Romanov's Pose Method of Running: A New Paradigm of RunningRunning barefoot isn't as natural as we're led to believe. Recent studies have shown that up to 85% of runners get injured every year, how natural is that? The most important question that running "barefoot" or "naturally" doesn't address is how we should run. Repetitive ground impact forces are at the root of most running injuries. A 30 minute jog can log more than 5,000 foot strikes; its because of this volume of movement that efficient |
Contents
DEVELOPING SENSATIONS OF FREE FALLING | 121 |
GOING FOR A RUN | 131 |
BUILDING A RUNNERS BODY AND MIND | 137 |
STRENGTH CONDITIONING FOR RUNNING | 139 |
DEVELOPING MUSCULAR ELASTICITY | 147 |
EXERCISES FOR HIPS | 167 |
EXERCISES FOR HAMSTRINGS | 189 |
INTEGRATING STRENGTH CONDITIONING INTO YOUR TRAINING PROGRAM | 199 |
THE INCREDIBLE LIGHTNESS OF RUNNING | 41 |
THE CONCEPTS OF THE POSE METHOD | 45 |
TEACHING YOURSELF THE POSE METHOD OF RUNNING | 47 |
THINKINGSEEINGFEELING | 51 |
THE RUNNING POSE | 55 |
THE FREE FALLING CONCEPT | 61 |
ALTERNATING POSES | 67 |
THE WHEEL CONCEPT | 73 |
MUSCULAR ELASTICITY | 79 |
THE IMPORTANCE OF RAPID STRIDE FREQUENCY | 83 |
DONT JUST RUN DO NOTHING | 87 |
THE FRAMING CONCEPT AKA Running In The SpaceTime Continuum | 93 |
MOVING FROM THOUGHT TO ACTION | 97 |
INTEGRATING THE COMPONENTS OF THE POSE METHOD INTO YOUR NEW RUNNING STYLE | 99 |
MASTERING RUNNING TECHNIQUE | 103 |
RUNNING SENSIBILITY | 107 |
LEARNING THE RUNNING POSE | 111 |
LEARNING TO FREE FALL | 115 |
RUNNING ON SAND | 205 |
UPHILL AND DOWNHILL RUNNING | 209 |
TRAIL RUNNING | 215 |
RUNNING BAREFOOT | 219 |
DEVELOPING FLEXIBILITY | 223 |
OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF RUNNING | 247 |
REFINING YOUR RUNNING TECHNIQUE | 259 |
RECOGNIZING CORRECTING ERRORS | 261 |
CORRECTING ERRORS IN LEGS MOVEMENT | 267 |
CORRECTING ERRORS IN TRUNK MOVEMENT | 291 |
CORRECTING ERRORS IN ARMS MOVEMENT | 295 |
RETAINING THE POSE TECHNIQUE IN YOUR TRAINING | 301 |
ABOUT THE AUTHORS | 305 |
Definitions | 307 |
Common Errors in Running | 311 |
Recommended Reading | 314 |
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Page 247 - So first of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Page 87 - In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
Page 99 - I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather* looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot As if the chart were given.
Page 79 - One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good Than all the sages can.
Page 261 - The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain And simple to express: Err And err And err again, But less And less And less.
Page 67 - Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Page 33 - The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Page 131 - A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Page 141 - We reason, as the metaphor goes, that a "chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
Page 111 - Learning without thought is labor lost ; thought without learning is perilous.— Confucius.