DO YOU NEED TO KNOW HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY TO BE THE
BEST RUNNER?
There's been a need to write on this topic for quite some
time now. It is a pity to witness so many lost in a maze of
tibias, femurs, gluteus maximus, etc. In an applaudable attempt
to understand the movement of the human body, some unwittingly
cross into a very specialized territory of human anatomy and
physiology. Yes, it is very interesting and fascinating, but
dissecting your body is completely unnecessary if your only
goal is to be a better athlete. And more often then not, it
brings more confusion than clarity and understanding.
There are different kinds of runners. Some run to get away
and relax, some run to compete, some run to later enjoy dwelling
on their experience. They go to great length to use as many
professional terms as possible to describe in incredible detail
every muscle movement. Do they run any better as a result?
No.
How many people take apart and put back together their car's
engine every Sunday afternoon? Does the car drive any better
after that? It doesn't make a difference. What does? Knowing
how to drive the car! Does the piano player learn about every
bone in their hands and arms to play better? No. They learn
what to do and how to do it, they learn the technique of playing
the piano and they focus on delivering their amazing performances.
Knowledge is power, but when does it over-power you? When
it takes you nowhere or in the wrong direction. Simply knowing
something does not give us anything. We have to be able to
apply that knowledge and preferably in a beneficial way. Lots
of material published on running technique to date, has shown
to be pointless, incorrect, lots of other material published
got ignored because the audience was not ready to accept the
facts presented. Case in point - the THE EXTENSOR PARADOX
IN RUNNING published in a Biomechanics of Distance Running
in 1990. 18 years later these facts are still ignored because
while looking at them nobody seems to understand what they
really mean. If the facts were understood there would be no
room for "push-off" theory because it is physically
impossible.
So, the answer to the title question of this article is no,
you don't need to know anything other than how to run and
for that we give you the Pose Method of Running technique,
the most well put together methodology of teaching how to
run.
If you want to know how to run - learn how to run. If you
want to know everything about your body - by all means, acquire
that information. But when you find yourself deeply thinking
of what your body parts are doing, while other runners are
flying by you, remember that things are simpler than you make
them to be. The magic formula pose-fall-pull is yours, if
you want it.
Article by Dr. Nicholas Romanov
Composed by L. Romanov
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