POSE is a f***ing joke!!!

Charlie Francis is a douche.

I remember Marty Liquori saying in his biography that the Kenyans ran as if they were constantly falling forward....

"Falling Forward" is simply a way of describing how you should 'feel' when you run, that's all. I've experimented with this 'feeling', and from what I get it's simply a way of reducing tension within the body to propel forward.

Regarding Pose.... if you've ever run barefoot, you'll notice that it's nearly impossible to overstride. You essentially keep your weight underneath you. The way I see it, the Pose Method is simply trying to take the barefoot biomechanics and apply it to "shod running."

hey jacka$$ if you draw two vectors one going forward and one going down there sum is forward and down - it's called momentum. Throw a baseball I bet it continues to go forward as gravity pulls it down.

I have found the POSE method helpful to get the 180 strides that Daniels suggests is the foundational for distance running economy. And I've been able to do this by leaning forward, and then not pushing off with the calf muscle at ground contact but instead lifting and dorsiflexing the foot so that the gastroc is involved with the hamstring in lifting the recovery leg to the butt and shortening the recovery leg as a lever. It takes practice but it works.

Does running really need to be as complicated as Pose Tech makes it out to be?

The Disciplined Mind wrote:

I have found the POSE method helpful to get the 180 strides that Daniels suggests is the foundational for distance running economy...

Yes, but have you gotten meaningfully faster?