Looking to gain a little more speed without using a lot of energy? Checkout this link to Danny Dreyer’s recent Blog where he discusses 4 easy steps to increase your speed the Chi Running way. http://www.chirunning.com/blog/entry/run-faster-today-with-4-easy-steps
What are your shoes telling you?
What does the wear patterns on the bottom of your shoes say about your running stride? Those wear patterns can tell you if you are improving or still have a lot of work to do to get to that Holy Grail known as the mid-foot landing. A couple of years ago, Katherine Dreyer published a […]
Keeping it short
Trying to achieve the midfoot landing sometimes gives people a little run for their money. Trying to figure out where their feet are hitting is for some, a mystery. Most runners have never given any thought about how their stride looks or how they land. The first time someone might decide to give it some […]
“Weather” to Run
There is a new tool to help you decide when is the best time for you to go for a run. With summer’s heat just getting started, most runners are busy checking the hourly predictions to try and get their run in prior to the warm up. The Weather Channel app available for iPhone now has […]
Practice Running or Running Practice?
How do you think about your running program? Is it an hour workout that you must do in order to stay in shape? Do you just wish you could snap your fingers and just be over with it? Or do you look forward to it and afterwards you feel refreshed and rejuvenated? Do you learn […]
Keeping It Quiet and Light
Additional studies are continuing to prove that landing softly helps keep injuries away. Here is a blog that shares some information about this subject and how Chi Running can help you obtain this in your running program. http://running.competitor.com/2016/06/training/how-runners-can-work-on-landing-softly_151010 How Runners Can Work on Landing Softly | Competitor.com running.competitor.com Improve your performance and reduce your risk […]
Achieving Balance in Movement
Over a lifetime our bodies change and our sense of balance changes with time. As we add years, most people have a tendency to carry more of their body weight towards the front. Gravity has a way of slowly influencing these subtle posture changes to our spines. Our habits of always looking down at our […]
Healthy Reasons to Get Up and Get Going
A recent international study found the regular exercise can significantly reduce your risk for several types of cancers. The study included over 1.4 million people and looked at 13 types of cancers over a 17 period with an 11 year follow up. The results are especially astounding for esophageal cancer that revealed a 42% decrease. […]
Sometimes an injury can be a gift
Most runners at some time will experience an injury or illness whether from running or simply living on this earth. Depending on how you choose to do deal with the setback it just might make you a better runner when you do return to running. There are things you could work on that would improve […]
Running Without Your Legs
As a Certified Chi Running Instructor I sometimes get asked how it is possible to run without using legs for propulsion. The answer lies in the balanced lean that is held in place by our core muscles engagement. Attached are four great exercises to help develop strong core muscles for minimal leg usage. Four core […]