So during my freshman year of high school, my coaches were constantly telling me that I lean a lot from the hips and to run up tall.
So while base training in the summer I practiced good posture while running only to have them tell me during practice of my sophmore year that I am still leaning.
How do I learn to stand up tall when running while getting that lean that everyone keeps talking about? I heard you are suppose to do it from ankles not hips but how?
Push your hips forward
Hips forward, head up, focus on pushing backwards with your legs (look at how elite distance runner's knees don't come up very high but they have a huge back kick). And finally relax, don't tense up your muscles, it just wastes energy
Do planks and deadlocks for posture and dorsiflexion exercises for ankle mobility
Deadlifts and other exercises that will improve posture and do exercises that will maintain or improve ankle mobility
run naturally. By trying to change your natural form, you introduce biomechanical efficiency. All through my running career, coaches told me my form sucked at such and such area, but as I gained fitness, my form improved without doing anything. Form is not a shortcut to fitness.
kvothe wrote:
Form is not a shortcut to fitness.
Form is a shortcut to running more economically = faster = better fitness.
A person wrote:
kvothe wrote:Form is not a shortcut to fitness.
Form is a shortcut to running more economically = faster = better fitness.
No, Jon. There has to be demands on the body to improve fitness of the engine.
It's all about the engine really, not the wheels.
A person wrote:
kvothe wrote:Form is not a shortcut to fitness.
Form is a shortcut to running more economically = faster = better fitness.
Jon, it took you about 30 years to get your form right and just a few months to max out your cardio. How is that a shortcut?
How do you push your hips forward? I always feel like I'm squeezing my rear, which seems like unideal tension.
Not really wrote:
Hips forward, head up, focus on pushing backwards with your legs (look at how elite distance runner's knees don't come up very high but they have a huge back kick). And finally relax, don't tense up your muscles, it just wastes energy
Is it one of those things where you say "hips" but have to visualize or "feel" some other body part--like lower back?
David7707 wrote:
Push your hips forward
It helps if you get the stick out of your arse
Moranic Orangic wrote:
No, Jon. There has to be demands on the body to improve fitness of the engine.
It's all about the engine really, not the wheels.
It's both. Who's Jon?
How??? wrote:
How do you push your hips forward? I always feel like I'm squeezing my rear, which seems like unideal tension.
Not really wrote:Hips forward, head up, focus on pushing backwards with your legs (look at how elite distance runner's knees don't come up very high but they have a huge back kick). And finally relax, don't tense up your muscles, it just wastes energy
It is hard to explain/understand just through words, the best way is to go for a run and try it. As a cue, it does literally feel like you are pushing your hips forward (the faster you go, the easier this will feel, try doing around your tempo pace to start with). You should be running with a slight anterior pelvic tilt. Also when doing this really focus on landing directly underneath your body then pushing backwards, almost like striding. Forget about bringing your knees up until a sprint finish. This will make your running form much more efficient and also take a lot of stress of the lower leg, preventing injuries.
Clinch your buttcheeks.
these cues:
"draw your belly button to your spine"
"Butt tucked, back flat"
this will put your hips in good position, but if you haven't done it naturally, it takes practice. putting your hips in proper position shouldn't compromise movement else where.
"Tall" means having your foot underneath you. the further out your foot lands, the shorter you get. try to keep your feet close to your center and focus your movement on thigh up and down. Don't let the foot dangle far behind you, don't let the foot reach out in front. Again, if this requires a change in the pattern you have used for trillions of steps, it will initially feel "weird."
There is zero reason to be holding your hips in a certain position. Running is a natural movement not some contrived yoga posture.
This thread has a lot of stupid conversations
Form matters. Strength train for general strength for now.
Fitness matters. You won't slump forward if you're not fatigued.
But this lean you're talking about? That's about how fast you're moving; your center of gravity will be more forward when running faster. You're not going to lean, ornwant to lean, forward on easy runs. You will lean when doing strides, tempos, or any other fast work. Don't run and lean on purpose, run to go fast. Don't slouch/arch your shoulders neck or head forward, and if you are moving fast, you will have the lean you're looking for
I don't think you know what you're talking about. Galen and Matt Centrowitz lean when running slowly.
Twinn wrote:
This thread has a lot of stupid conversations
Form matters. Strength train for general strength for now.
Fitness matters. You won't slump forward if you're not fatigued.
But this lean you're talking about? That's about how fast you're moving; your center of gravity will be more forward when running faster. You're not going to lean, ornwant to lean, forward on easy runs. You will lean when doing strides, tempos, or any other fast work. Don't run and lean on purpose, run to go fast. Don't slouch/arch your shoulders neck or head forward, and if you are moving fast, you will have the lean you're looking for
You sure about that?
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