Geezer wishes he could say that ChiRunning, a relatively recently-conceived style of running that promises to reduce injury and pain, focus your
mind, lift your spirit and open up your flow of chi, is all the rage. But it’s not. In certain predictable (read L.A.) locales, it is perhaps a petite rage, and certainly rage enough for Outside magazine to publish a first person piece on one runner’s effort to grasp the practice. Nick Heil reports that ChiRunning was developed by Danny Dreyer, a 57-year-old veteran
coach and ultramarathoner who claims that his more
biomechanically efficient technique makes running “effortless and
injury-free.” The Tai-chi inspired exercise, Heil tells us, “requires learning
how to relax and let gravity do the work for you. Proper form starts
with an upright posture that aligns feet, hips, torso, and head
vertically. Then you lean forward at the ankles to achieve a full-body
tilt that allows gravity to pull you along, while your bonesâ€â€rather
than musclesâ€â€support your body. Each stride falls midfoot, instead of
on the heel or forefoot, and finishes wherever momentum takes itâ€â€which
means a pronounced heel kick behind you at higher speeds.”
Could the claims really be true? Geezer has a few questions about the mechanics of falling up an incline. Read more from Nick Heil and find out.
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lol @ at renaming the “Pose” (Tm) method of running ( see http://www.posetech.com ) and trying to include the mythical “chi” force into it to make it his own branding.
Both of these techniques were thoroughly discussed, and dismissed, two months ago on http://scienceofsport.blogspot.com/search/label/running%20technique.
well, to say that the technique doesnt work because your tired and your toe is hurt after the FIRST time is a bit absurd. I have never tried this for myself, but the argument that it really doesnt work is weak to do the factors under which you experimented. Usually the first time doing any form of exercise causes tenderness to the area you are working on. we all know that. plus learning knew techniques can be difficult the first time. So injury do to improper technique is highly possible the FIRST time.
that is all