Become a Faster Competitor with This Program

When you run, you use gravity. It’s the gravity that pulls you down. Of course, you need muscle work to maintain your upward posture while letting gravity set your body in motion. It’s how much you lean forward that determines what speed you’re running at. Many people think it’s your leg drive that determines the speed, but your legs can only push you upward, not forward. To run forward, you have to lean forward. If you lean backward, you run backward (or you fall). It’s true you have to use leg drive while running, but the leg drive is to keep you from falling, not to push you forward. Since we can see the legs are moving while running, it is easy to think the legs are doing the work. When I realized this, I didn’t hate running that much any longer. In fact, it got pretty fun.

Running is about following and controlling gravity; strength training is about standing still and taking control over gravity.

To become stronger, you must learn to control gravity in the vertical motion, and to become faster you must control gravity in the horizontal motion. So, it’s all about controlling gravity! Dr. Nicholas Romanov, who developed the Pose Method, showed this in a very good video when he was running in flat shoes on ice. If you try to push your foot against ice wearing flat shoes, you will probably slip and fall. When you stand with your weight straight over the gravity, you can keep your balance since the gravity point is through your foot. If you run and land with your full body weight over your foot and just let your falling position set the speed, you will be able to run on ice in flat shoes without falling. This running method will make you faster with less effort since it demands less effort. It’s also easier to recover from.

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