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Many recommendations for improving your run relate to improving your posture. In this regard we hear coaches tell a runner to be more upright. But how does one get more upright?   You are often told to straighten up and to maintain your head and shoulders in alignment. This typically means that the head should […]

In an article reported in the FITNESS and SPORTS REVIEW INTERNATIONAL, Russian researchers found that the maximum speed reproducible in a specific exercise depends upon many factors. Two of the most important are: 1) The athlete’s level of physical development and 2) The degree of his technical mastery. When an athlete is given an assignment

If you are a runner or have participated on a track team, I am sure you have done many different running drills. Many of the running drills were probably duplicates of some of the key actions that runners perform.   However running drills and doing drills religiously before each practice as many runners do, does

One of the most popular suggestions given to runners is that they should keep the thumb and index finger lightly touching one another. Some coaches maintain that you should feel like you’re letting handfuls of sand run through your fingers.   Still others say that you should pretend that you’re holding a potato chip in

Recent studies are once again proving that runners and triathletes suffer injuries at a higher rate than ordinarily thought. For example, a recent study of over 500 competitive runners and triathletes found that 90% had suffered an injury in the past year.   About half of the athletes were sidelined for at least two weeks