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Training: How to Keep Good Running Form for Long Distance

While different distances do require different training plans, the running technique used, however, remains the same. Here’s why.

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Training: How To Recover Faster After a Marathon

How can you make your recovery faster and more effective? You need to learn a very simple procedure which I developed over the years and call ‘strength recovery’.

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CrossFit: Increase WOD Running Speed in One Day

For all their variety, an overwhelming majority of WODs have one constant – running. That’s a lot of running in a community that says it hates running!

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Theory & Practice: 5 Golden Rules of a Proper Training Program

Training programs are specific structures of volume, intensity & exercise. Here are 5 golden rules of a good training program.

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Theory & Practice: Athlete’s Muscles

I hear discussions of muscles and fibers and I wonder if people participating in the discussion are talking about doing something or is it a theoretical discussion of anatomy. If you’re studying anatomy or have scientific interest in the topic of muscles, tissues and fibers then it makes sense, but if you’re an athlete of any level or a coach – while it might satisfy some curiosity, it won’t serve practical purpose. Types of ‘Knowing’ Within the context of athletics and training there are things we need and don’t need to know in a sense of practically useful information. It…

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Theory & Practice: What Is Overstriding in Running?

Overstriding is a very simple thing, but it is still veiled in the cloud of confusion for one simple reason – it is impossible to identify and/or define something when you operate without a clear standard. When you are told that you’re overdoing something (and that’s what overstriding essentially means) the question arises: how did you come to a conclusion that I’m overdoing something? I think I’m just doing it. What makes you say I’m OVERdoing it? Is my ‘doing’ different from your ‘doing’? Who is to say that my ‘doing’ isn’t better than yours? Maybe what I’m doing is IT and you’re underdoing…

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Training: 5 Signs of Overtraining

The most classical and usually the first of signs of overtraining. Unfortunately, this #1 sign is commonly overlooked.

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Training: Warm-Up & Cool-Down for Runners

In Pose Method we use specific running technique drills to get the body into the right biomechanical structure of movement.

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Theory & Practice: Strength Training in Running

While the question ‘do we need strength training in running?’ is not a question anymore, the question, ‘what kind of strength do 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 your 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 with the ground. So…

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Training: Improve Balance to Increase Speed

In general, better balance translates to higher precision of movement regardless of sport, but how does our balance affect our speed?