Monday, June 20, 2016

If you are hurt (2) ...


Apart from the magic potion, 3 majors elements can help your recovery.

The new Divinity : The Roller.

You can actually roll everything and no position is ridiculous enough to not justify it.


Dynamic stretches.

Reading Runners'World is optional. Hawaii is optional. Shorts are not optional.

Strengthening. Feet. Hips. Core. You name it.

Hair is optional. Of course, pick the exercise that matches with your pain. Here, I am still working on my Turf Toe.

Totally unrelated, and as a bonus. It is obvious - specially after you learned it - or realized it - but to extend your stride - i..e run faster, with a proper form, you do not reach further ahead. That would cause imbalance, heel striking, and 'reaching' instead of 'pushing'.
Pushing from the butt is the best way I can describe proper form, propelled by your glutes.
Anyway.
Until today, I vaguely understood that to run faster you had to push harder, fly longer, and still not overreach - i.e. your foot - somehow - would still land under your hip when making contact with the ground.

Meb leg extension. Yeah. He is fast.

Well, Thanks to Nate explanation (see previous post, annoyingly always spot on), the secret to stride length is in back leg extension, or hip extension.
Not Quads. Glutes. Not forward. Backward.
And the role of the arms? compensate the rotation of the pelvis during the push, and helping stabilize your core and hips.

Push, Extend. Fly.
Like Meb.
Or Not. Doesn't really matter, if you look like how you should be looking.
A bit.


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