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The Running Blueprint
Por Dr. Kevin Vandi
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- Unbound Publishing
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- Oct 22, 2020
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- 9781393965411
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Change your thinking about running.
Is running really harmful to your joints? Do you suffer from common running injuries and wonder why? You can avoid things like
Shin splints Joint pain Muscle strains Foot painAnd it's not just by changing your shoes or getting better arch supports or insoles.
The advice doesn't come from just anyone.
Dr. Kevin Vandi has written this book on data he's analyzed from runners he's worked with all over the world. He's a Doctor of Physical Therapy, board-certified Orthopedic Clinical Specialist, Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, and a leader in integrating advanced biomechanical analysis and feedback into clinical practice.
His goal is that you use this system to help you run faster, run longer, and run pain-free at any age.
Running is a skill to be mastered, just like any other skill.
Yes, you can alter your running form. There are skills you can learn that will make you a better runner, less prone to injury, and that will keep you running for years to come. You'll learn about:
Running form. Propper landing. Proper knee and joint control. And how your muscles work during running.But that's not all. This is not just a book with a bunch of technical jargon about how running works.
The Running Blueprint offers practical solutions.
The Running Blueprint includes exercises you can start right now to help change and improve your running form. You won't be a perfect runner right away. Making new habits and breaking old ones takes time and practice.
If you follow the program and stick with it, you'll be a new runner in no time at all. And the best news is, you can master the skill of running at any age. The Running Blueprint will show you how.
Acciones del libro
Comenzar a leerInformación sobre el libro
The Running Blueprint
Por Dr. Kevin Vandi
Descripción
Change your thinking about running.
Is running really harmful to your joints? Do you suffer from common running injuries and wonder why? You can avoid things like
Shin splints Joint pain Muscle strains Foot painAnd it's not just by changing your shoes or getting better arch supports or insoles.
The advice doesn't come from just anyone.
Dr. Kevin Vandi has written this book on data he's analyzed from runners he's worked with all over the world. He's a Doctor of Physical Therapy, board-certified Orthopedic Clinical Specialist, Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, and a leader in integrating advanced biomechanical analysis and feedback into clinical practice.
His goal is that you use this system to help you run faster, run longer, and run pain-free at any age.
Running is a skill to be mastered, just like any other skill.
Yes, you can alter your running form. There are skills you can learn that will make you a better runner, less prone to injury, and that will keep you running for years to come. You'll learn about:
Running form. Propper landing. Proper knee and joint control. And how your muscles work during running.But that's not all. This is not just a book with a bunch of technical jargon about how running works.
The Running Blueprint offers practical solutions.
The Running Blueprint includes exercises you can start right now to help change and improve your running form. You won't be a perfect runner right away. Making new habits and breaking old ones takes time and practice.
If you follow the program and stick with it, you'll be a new runner in no time at all. And the best news is, you can master the skill of running at any age. The Running Blueprint will show you how.
- Editorial:
- Unbound Publishing
- Publicado:
- Oct 22, 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781393965411
- Formato:
- Libro
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The Running Blueprint - Dr. Kevin Vandi
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Part I
"What you need to do is build the house you will live in. You build that house by laying a solid foundation: by building physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health."
~ James Altucher
1
Running Is a Skill to Be Mastered
Skilled Action: Action guided by ongoing accrual and improving application of knowledge of the facts about an activity.
-- John Krakauer
You can’t change running form; it’s not possible.
-- Angry injured runner
I was at an ultra-running packet pickup for the San Jose Quicksilver 50K/100K, handing out information on the benefits of a 3D gait analysis, when a seasoned, fit, middle-aged runner told me running form can’t change. Not only was he very adamant about his belief, you could also tell he was a bit angry. He left the conversation by waving his hand in a forget about it
manner and stormed off. Unfortunately, this was not the last time a runner told me that running form is a fixed trait.
What was interesting about this conversation was that this runner, who’d been running for many decades, approached me with complaints of ongoing calf pain. He described in detail his frustration at missing workouts, avoiding long runs, and worrying about whether he could even finish the 50K race.
What have you done to fix the calf pain?
I asked. He answered with the Big Three: rest, new shoes, and orthotics. I call these the Big Three because nearly every runner I have worked with has tried these tactics. They are the first line of defense when injury strikes.
When I probed to see if that solved his pain, he rolled his eyes and expressed his ignorance as to the cause of his pain. This is when I asked about his running form and was met with the old Italian send-off. For some reason, asking about his running form struck a chord that ran deep. By suggesting his injury was the result of his running form, he saw it as a personal attack.
There is an underlying, tightly held, defended-to-the-death belief that running form is fixed and ingrained genetically at birth. When it comes to running form, runners have a fixed mindset, which is why the ultra-runner with calf pain was offended by my comment. He believed I was attacking who he was as a runner.
As I reflected on this conversation, I realized the real crux of the issue. For over a decade, I had been searching for a reason why nearly 80 percent of all runners get injured annually and why, in the face of overwhelming research, runners rarely attribute their injuries to poor form (Gent 2006). Books like Born to Run have solidified that we are specifically designed and evolved to run long distances. Most people can start running without the need to practice putting one foot before the other. Research has also proven that running is NOT bad for your knees or joints (Devita 2016). But if we are born to run, why do runners continue to get injured?
The answer lies in how running itself is defined. Is it a fixed trait or a learned ability?
The ability to run, like walking, is programmed into our genetics. Although the ability to run is biologically programmed, the ability to run well is not. We are born to walk but need months of falling and losing our balance to figure out the pace and rhythm of walking from point A to point B safely and with ease. Yes, we’re born to run, but at what point do we go through the required falling and failing that perfects our running form?
As children, we start running soon after learning to walk. We sprint at the playground and chase our siblings and run away from parents as our introduction. As we progress to ages 7 – 10, we play organized sports like soccer or baseball and begin to treat running as training versus play. This is more sprinting, stopping, starting, and changing direction running than the one-direction distance running we are examining here.
High school is likely the first opportunity to run more than one mile at a time as practice. In high school track and cross country, more often than not, in my experience working with coaches and runners, running form is never truly practiced. Freshmen start cross country season having barely run in the summer and immediately jump to running 20 - 30 miles per week. The gravity of this change can’t be overstated. Young runners are literally catapulted into running distance without any foundational training on the mechanics. Although running more miles, faster miles, repeats, tempos, and intervals are a means of practicing the cardiovascular aspect of running, it is not practicing the art of running.
This same process holds true for people in their 20’s and beyond who pick up running as a means to improve fitness and health. Of the 60 million runners in the United States, approximately 24 percent said their reason to start running was to get in shape
(Willy 2012). Running is one of the most played sports
in the world. As more people enter into one of the greatest sports in the world, the same series of events unfolds. A decision is made to get in shape, running shoes and clothes are excitedly purchased, running begins by following a training plan found on one of the first three hits on a Google search, and one month later, as mileage increases, the injury bug strikes. Sound familiar?
Over the last ten years, I have worked with hundreds of runners, both novice and elite, to improve their running form, eliminate pain, and hit personal records. I have asked the same question in every single evaluation: How often do you practice running form?
The overwhelming answer? Never.
If you were to ask any basketball, soccer, or volleyball athlete how much they practice their sport, they would tell you at least two days per week (if not Monday through Friday) for up to three hours at a time. When probed further about how much they practice the mechanics of their sport such as shooting, kicking, and serves, they will tell you EVERY practice during a warm-up or with drills.
Prolific NBA shooting guard and free throw shooter Ray Allen is said to have practiced his already incredible free throws at every single practice. For his entire 15-year career, he did the same 150-shot shooting routine before every practice and game. The result is that he ended his career as one of the best of all time from the line.
All athletes practice the mechanics of their sport. The ability to perform an action does not ensure the performance of the action is efficient, coordinated, and biomechanically correct. Equally important, simply doing an action more times doesn’t ensure the mastery of the action itself. If mastery of running form only depended on running more miles, we should see a drop in injury rate with more miles run. Instead, the injury rate is relatively uniform when runs add up to more than 35 miles per week.
Consider basketball star Shaquille O’Neal, whose career free throw percentage was an abysmal 52.7, percent ranking him the third-worst free throw shooter of all time. Shaq attempted 11,252 free throws in his career and missed nearly half of them. Clearly, shooting more free throws didn’t automatically result in more shots made. In contrast, Ray Allen shot 4,920 free throws and made 89.4 percent of them. Ray Allen believed that he could continually improve his free throw ability while Shaq was unwilling to adopt new shooting techniques such as the underhand free throw. Rick Barry, who mastered the underhand free throw, shot 89.3 percent from the line. When Shaq was asked about why he never switched to the more successful underhand free throw he stated, I’d rather shoot 0% than shoot underhand. I’m too cool for that.
The overarching reason why up to 80% of runners get injured yearly is they believe running form is a fixed trait. They attribute injuries to external issues such as shoes, orthotics, and training plans to avoid placing the blame on the internal issue of their running form.
Running form is not a fixed trait. Running is a skill to be mastered rather than a preprogrammed, fixed ability. It needs to be broken down into its component parts and practiced just like every other sport.
Although you are born to run, it doesn’t exempt you from the need to practice and perfect the skill. In order to run distance, avoid injuries, and run for a lifetime, it is imperative that you practice. By recognizing running as a skill, any runner of any age can improve their running form.
So how do you practice running form?
2
Deliberate Practice
"Mastering music is more than learning technical skills.
Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes."
- Yo-Yo Ma
I’ve learned that it’s what you do with the miles, rather than how many you’ve run.
-Rod DeHaven
When teaching running form, I never know what parts of my teaching runners will remember or, more interestingly, how they remember it.
One of the form drills I practice regularly with runners is a forward trunk lean. There are many cues I provide, but one, in particular, that seems to work well is to run with your chest forward, like Superman ripping off his shirt.
This visualization really helps to grasp the right form. On one occasion, a marathon runner took something very different from this cue.
Susan, who is incredibly funny, came to her running session and excitedly exclaimed, "I took your advice to run like a man, and it totally worked!" The best part was that she said, Run like a man!
in a spot-on Arnold Schwarzenegger impression, which was very strange to hear from a tiny, Asian woman. Although the cue was to run like Superman, I guess run like a man works too!
The point was that Susan took time to practice her running form. She made the effort to specifically focus on improving her forward trunk lean on every weekly run. Using simple cues and focused practice, Susan was able to improve her running form, which resulted in improved running efficiency. Running form practice is not difficult. The choice to practice is the difficult part.
It’s essential to understand that not all practice is created equal and that the key to improving any skill is deliberate practice. The pioneer of deliberate practice was psychologist Anders Ericsson who is famous for the 10,000-hour rule
made popular in Malcom Gladwell’s book Outliers. Ericsson defined deliberate practice as:
A highly structured activity, the explicit goal of which is to improve performance. Specific tasks are invented to overcome weaknesses, and performance is carefully monitored to provide cues for ways to improve it further.
(Ericsson 1993)
Deliberate practice breaks down a skilled action into component parts, and through mastering those pieces, you improve the whole. Ericsson’s research and the work of many others have shown that experience alone isn’t enough to become an expert or drastically improve a skill. It’s how you practice that makes all the difference.
Researchers have studied Morse code operators, typists, Olympic athletes, X-ray technicians, chess players, and many others to figure out what variables determine the prowess of some performers over others. For all skills, there is a plateau or cap where more trials of doing the activity won’t improve performance. Just sitting down at the piano every day, without a plan or training structure, will only get you so far.
As Ericsson states, "Our review has also shown that the maximal level of performance for individuals in a given domain is not attained automatically as a function of extended experience, but the level of performance can be increased even by highly experienced individuals as a result of deliberate efforts to improve."
The thought that extended experience
is all that is needed to become an efficient runner is ingrained in running culture. Marathon plans are a great example. To train for the 26.2 mile race, the standard plan is to gradually increase running mileage over a 16 - 20 week period, including running distances of 18 - 20 miles in one continuous run at least three times before tapering the mileage in the immediate weeks before the race. Some plans go one step further and schedule speed, tempo, and recovery workouts as part of training. The only minuscule mention of running practice is doing strides
on the track or writing strength training
on the calendar.
The problem is that these all fall under the assumption that running more miles is all the practice
that is needed. If that was the case, then why is the injury rate among non-elite runners so high in marathon running?
Running practice, deliberate practice, requires a focus on improving individual aspects of running form itself. It requires having a system and progression of form training that leads to greater efficiency, power, endurance, and, eventually, faster times. Deliberate practice requires feedback and concentration.
Feedback, when given near the performance of the action, drives learning, and feeds the next part of practice. Take throwing a football, for example: you can break down the action into the drop-back, target acquisition, windup, throw, and follow-through. Each of these pieces can be practiced individually to create a more solid foundation for the skill itself. Yardage markers, ball speed, accuracy, completion of the pass, release time, and throwing mechanics are all feedback parameters that can be used as cues for improvement.
Likewise, running can be broken down into initial contact, peak loading, and terminal stance. These three distinct phases are how a proper running analysis is performed. It can further be broken down biomechanically by actions of the trunk (body), pelvis, hips, knees, and feet. In its most minimal breakdown, running involves shock absorption and propulsion, or, the ability to absorb landing forces into your muscular system and release that stored energy to propel your body forward. Since running is a continuous action, feedback needs to be fast and continuous.
Feedback can be provided by a running coach, movement specialist, or teammate. There are also many smart devices on the market today which provide ample and immediate feedback on parameters such as cadence, landing force, stride length, heart rate, and even pelvic drop. By having continual feedback, and a knowledge of proper running form, deliberate practice can be utilized to make significant improvements in running form, efficiency, and performance.
At my running lab in San Jose, and at other running labs around the country, researchers and clinicians use real-time running feedback for deliberate practice and observe incredible results. With as little as 20 minutes one time per week for eight weeks, runners have been
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