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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 often hear long discussions about muscles, fibers, and their functions. And I can’t help but wonder – are people talking about doing something, or are they just talking about anatomy? If your goal is to study anatomy or satisfy a scientific curiosity, then exploring muscles, tissues, and fibers makes perfect sense. But if you are an athlete or a coach, that kind of knowledge, while interesting, will not make you better at your craft. Curiosity is natural, but practical application is what truly matters. Types of ‘Knowing’ In sport and training, there are things we need to know and…

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Theory & Practice: What Is Overstriding in Running?

Overstriding seems simple, yet confusion surrounds the term. The reason is clear: without a standard, it’s impossible to define or identify what “too much” really is. If someone tells you that you’re “overdoing” something – because that’s essentially what overstriding means – you might ask: How do you know I’m overdoing it? Maybe I’m just doing it differently. Who decides what’s too much? Without a standard, the conversation becomes endless speculation, shaped by opinions rather than grounded in principles. This is where natural laws and biomechanics provide clarity. Running follows the same physical laws that govern all movement. The Pose…

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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?