Runners Beware: CrossFit has discovered Pose Running

"It is never a good idea to train for long distance running, since your PHYSIQUE will shrink (chest, back, arms, legs, overall package, yes that is a proven fact - I have talked to many women about this)."hi

Brah, you ommitted something. One part of the PHYSIQUE that does shrink or doesn't get BIG in the first place is our GUT. We have RIPPED and CUT abs. There's this BOX and the BROS could of been mistaken for pregnant women, in their 9th month, ready to deliver triplets. Distance runners carry a SIX PACK, Xfit dudes are carrying KEGS, full size ones.

Crossfit is such a joke

https://shechive.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/cross-fit-3.jpg?quality=80&strip=info&w=500

Who does overhead squats on top of a ball?

Donut waffle wrote:

Had to lookup pose running. Possibly the dumbest athletic fad I've come across.

This is incorrect. Lydiard only lectured about one point on running form - HIPS FORWARD.........which is essentially what Pose method is.

So by elimination Lydiard was preaching Pose method back in 1960.

that's amazing. Pose Running has been thoroughly discredited since 2007 at least,

http://sportsscientists.com/2007/10/pose-running-reduces-running-economy/

and Crossfit Endurance is exactly Pose :

"Paul had spent hours and hours pouring over the technique of each of them, and spent the morning explaining how it was done. It turns out the answer is gravity! The runners were falling in order to accelerate without using up muscle power! "

http://crossfitendurance.com/2016/02/04/my-crossfit-endurance-seminar-experience/

I wonder what he was pouring over their technique - some nice maple syrup, possibly ?

It is a perfect fit though, of course Crossfit would endorse Pose - two marketing campaigns exploiting the gullibility in the fitness market from different angles.

old and in the way wrote:

The runners were falling in order to accelerate without using up muscle power! "

That's my favorite thing about pose running - the idea that gravity pulls you forward.

How does pose running fit with a flat earth model?

forward gravity wrote:

old and in the way wrote:

The runners were falling in order to accelerate without using up muscle power! "

That's my favorite thing about pose running - the idea that gravity pulls you forward.

How does pose running fit with a flat earth model?

Quite well, actually. Flat-earthers are more likely to buy into the pose stuff.

Xfit bro FTW.

The posts I saw about a week ago were kind of weak. This one restored my faith in getting shredded.

XFIT BRO THE REAL ONE 1 wrote:

eotbs wrote:

(some stuff that contradicted XFIT BRO's philosophy)

You do realize that your keyboard has an ENTER key, right?

Use it.

No one wants to read through an endless paragraph.

Is

this

better?

I hope so. I wouldn't want to assemble too many words in one place. After all, reading comprehension is already tough...

...but having to understand words while they're all together? Whoa, bro, you'd have to have, like, some kind of crossfit intelligence to handle that, not just a ripped & shredded brain.

Fifteen years ago, I was desperate to save my knees and my lifetime running passion. I tried Pose because at that time, it was the only game in town to dramatically change running form. I bought the book, the DVDs, and then I practiced diligently for several months. Right... months.

Two things happened. 1. The Pose solved my knee problems. 2. I got slow.

I then examined the Pose Method closely to see what I might be doing wrong. I discovered that the comparison of the Pose to how animals run (to claim its efficiency) were biomechanically incorrect.

The Pose (as I learned it back then) requires you to land on the ball of foot and then quickly lift it. There's no flex or push off with the foot. The Pose Method claims this is how animals run. In reality, in the rear leg of animals, the "heel" is actually the lower leg. Dogs land on their paws (toes in human anatomy), then they flex their lower leg (heel in humans) to push off. This push off is entirely missing in the Pose.

When I added a slight push off to the Pose Method, my mile pace increased from 7:00 to 6:40... a whopping 20 second increase with only a slight form change. It then took another 3 months to get strong enough to handle the push off.

TL;DR

Bottom line:

The Pose is biomechanically incorrect. To run fast, you must push off. If you have career-ending knee problems, the Pose might solve them, but it's not the best technique for forefoot running.