[marcus clarke]

Can someone please explain what pose RUNNING is! Being military running is quite a big thing and well overdone and unfortunatley due to time constraints it wasnt discussed on the i-course. Also, i saw lot of instructors wearing these 5 toed trainer things. Do these help with lifting or running or both etc..

any advice is much appreciated.

Thanks

marcus clarke

[FK Pimp]

pose running is a style of running (quite contreversial in some circles) in that you are aiming for the foo strike to be directly under the centre line of your body - type pose running into google/youtube and there are heaps of results. Not sure how well it would work in army boots tho'.

Vibram five fingers are the choice du jour for low profile footwear to mimic bare feet as closely as possible. Theory being that modern shoes are actually bad for your feet, posture etc.

[Davie]

I "get" POSE running

I dont think I will EVER "get" Vibrams

[FK Pimp]

i prefer nike free's - at least they don't stink after 4 times of wearing as you can wear sock with them.
I'v got a pair of nike cow toes which are half way to vibrams (same material) and they reek!

[Chi]

is the posetech website the best place to research pose running? Would appreciate any links to free sites about pose running that people think would be useful to me.

[FK Pimp]

i would have a look at youtube to be honest - always seems like there is heaps on there

[Jet]

WTF?When did running become something you had to learn?I get the difference,don't get me wrong,but,why?
Anyway,pose runners look uncomfortable.

[FK Pimp]

have you raced one though?
I have to say that it was one of the most uncomfortable transitions I have done, but now worth every moment - no more sore knees, feel stronger, can go longer, and am certainly faster.

[Jet]

Hmm,i'm a fairly good runner anyway(3 miles in 18mins 50ish).Can't honestly see the value in it for a good runner like myself.Maybe for someone with a wonky footstrike who is a crap runner.
Still looks uncomfortable to me though.

[Jet]

Chris Barclay, on Nov 7 2008, 05:17 PM, said:

have you raced one though?
I have to say that it was one of the most uncomfortable transitions I have done, but now worth every moment - no more sore knees, feel stronger, can go longer, and am certainly faster.

But you get stronger,faster,have less aches and pains and can go farther with regular running anyway.Why overcomplicate one of the basic abilities inherited over thousands of years of evolution?
Just seems a bit silly......like power walking......

[Jet]

Um,did i kill this thread?
I really want to be convinced that this isn't just another bloody crossfit cert and that it actually has value.Now i,as a good runner and as someone who can literally pick running up at will without training for it, have never needed to work on my running style per say.Stride length and rythmn when cutting down times etc but never on my actual form.
So what i really need is for someone who could run well before and learned to run pose style to share a little experience to the positive in favour of pose......
Any takers?

[sam]

i'm interested to hear people's thoughts on this too...

[Red]

POSE running........is that running with flowers in your hand????

[Davie]

thats posie running

[Rich]

There's also postie running.

Occurs when either large canine beasts or chavs chase the hard-working Royal Mail worker down the road. Now if the said postie had learnt the POSE method, he may get away without a bite mark on his ankle or with his mobile phone safely in his pocket.

[Jet]

^^^ ^^^

[FK Pimp]

tbh I thought pose running was with sunnies and a pony tail!



... taxi for barclay you say?

[GuiltyCol]

Jet, on Nov 7 2008, 04:44 PM, said:

WTF?When did running become something you had to learn?I get the difference,don't get me wrong,but,why?

Lol, I often mentioned the exact opposite to the coaches at CF Manchester: "Why is it, every single exercise we do is carefully taught, typically built up from first principles, then only when the form is perfected, are we allowed to increase load and intensity? Yet the single exception is running, which it's assumed that as soon as we popped out of mum's tum, we somehow magically knew the most efficient and safest possible way to run?"

I have never been able to run any distance. Not even as an athletic teenager could I run a mile; the pain in my calves was excruciating from just 800m. It felt like my calf muscles were swelling up so much, that they were pressing really hard onto the inside of my shin bone, so much so that the bone was physically cutting into the muscle deep inside my calf.

The only time I was "taught" to run, I was advised to heel strike and roll the weight round my foot, and push off with my toes. This made no difference to my running. Further, if I wanted to run faster, I was told to push off more and increase my stride length. This only increased the pain and hampered what little running ability I had.

Then I heard of POSE. I bought the book and video and it all makes perfect sense. Almost over night (well, as long as it took me to get the technique right) my calf pain disappeared and I've been able to run further and for longer than I ever thought I could. Ok, it's not far, I think the most I've run non stop is 2 miles, but that's 4x further than I could have before and it wasn't calf pain that stopped me.

By the way, if you want to learn how to POSE run, just try running bare foot on a tarmac road, you'll soon be doing a good approximation to it. That's why the Vibrams are favoured, you can't possible heel strike in them.

[FK Pimp]

Jet, on Nov 7 2008, 07:23 PM, said:

But you get stronger,faster,have less aches and pains and can go farther with regular running anyway.Why overcomplicate one of the basic abilities inherited over thousands of years of evolution?
Just seems a bit silly......like power walking......

Sorry to go backwards but had to pick up on this

stronger faster and less aches and pains - That is simply not true unless you have good form. Heel strikers are killing their knees and there is nothing to say you get stronger with more running at all - in fact the opposite is true. As for faster - you may get to a point where you can push through to get as fast as your stride will allow, however this doesn't mean you are as fast as you can go.

[Franz29]

As for less aches, this is also not the case. When I run distance I get pain in my lower back which causes me to have to stop and can last for days after. Since using POSE I have not had these issues at all.

When I get fatigued I still sometimes slip back in to the old "regular" way of running and the pain starts almost right away. If I consciously maintain my POSE form it will subside and I can continue on.

I still have a long way to go before it is natural for me to POSE all the time, but the more strides I make towards it (excuse the pun), the better I feel.