I'm 50 and run about an hour a day. I really don't pay attention to my form, and probably should. Over the past few years, I've stayed fairly fit, but I've become that shuffling old guy you see running down the street - my stride isn't smooth. It's short and choppy and uneven. No particular injury to blame.
What would be a few simple form drills I could do to improve my turn over and form? Not looking for anything too strenuous as I can be prone to injury
Thanks in advance
The easiest thing to do is google- form drills for speed.
But we use- high knees, butt kicks, forward lunges, backward lunges, hip flexor "kicks".
They're hard to describe but basically, your'e exaggerating the running motion and working those muscles.
You can come up with a 10-15 minute routine and you'll feel the difference.
runn
do you coach? if so, do tell of your experience.
thanks
I would Google "running drills" and you will find some helpful description and videos. You are on the right track.
There's some good stuff here: http://petemagill.blogspot.com/
Look up either Mach Drills or Seagrave drills. People often see these are sprint drills, but they aren't, they are running drills. All running is the same really, just the range of motion (and therefore the speed) changes.
I think drills are one of the things that us recreational runners tend to toss aside, and we shouldn't.
I know in HS & college they were standard issue, but when I no longer had an unlimited amount of time to run, the drills got dropped. Heck just doing some fast strides can help, but I have to make myself do them.
Drills are a waste of time. Just run, baby.
My form has improved significantly since I incorporated strides and drills. I set my mile PR after incorporating them.
High knees, butt kicks (with my knees coming up to hip level), "A" skips or "B" skips, straight legs and fast feet. The last one kills me.
I've also added body weight hip and glute exercises.
Also hill sprints and running up bleachers (and Subway steps).
I feign imaginary back injuries to avoid doing burpees.
Randy Oldman wrote:
My form has improved significantly since I incorporated strides and drills. I set my mile PR after incorporating them.
High knees, butt kicks (with my knees coming up to hip level), "A" skips or "B" skips, straight legs and fast feet. The last one kills me.
I've also added body weight hip and glute exercises.
Also hill sprints and running up bleachers (and Subway steps).
I feign imaginary back injuries to avoid doing burpees.
thanks for the tips, everyone. Keep them coming...
Do you do strides? Strides are definitely the #1 most helpful and easiest thing to do.
Running in place beats all the other crapola
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/04/100-up-running_n_5406664.html
77.3 meters wrote:
Do you do strides? Strides are definitely the #1 most helpful and easiest thing to do.
Truthfully, no I don't. :-(
77.3 meters wrote:
Do you do strides? Strides are definitely the #1 most helpful and easiest thing to do.
This- like some others said, as a "recreational" runner some of us just don't have the time to do form drills.
Older and shuffling wrote:
Truthfully, no I don't. :-(
Add an extra mile or half mile to your run and use it for strides. They help quite a bit. I'd add strides before drills.
runn wrote:
77.3 meters wrote:Do you do strides? Strides are definitely the #1 most helpful and easiest thing to do.
This- like some others said, as a "recreational" runner some of us just don't have the time to do form drills.
Our runners do drills as part of their warm up.
I'm 49 and will do some lunges occasionally. Don't know if it helps but gives the neighbors something to laugh at. I do some 200s now and then and that seems to lighten may gait up a bit.