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Summary: Must Have For Runners
Review: A great book. As others have mentioned, sometimes you think well "I am just running" and overlook many things that can both adversly affect you and your running. Over time people can also fall into bad habits, much like a pitcher in baseball who loses their motion, it takes a bit to bring it back on track. Following this book helps lead to better performance and less injuries by ensuring and reminding us that proper form is something to be constantly thought about and focused on. Highly recommended
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Summary: Must Have For Runners
Review: A great book. As others have mentioned, sometimes you think well "I am just running" and overlook many things that can both adversly affect you and your running. Over time people can also fall into bad habits, much like a pitcher in baseball who loses their motion, it takes a bit to bring it back on track. Following this book helps lead to better performance and less injuries by ensuring and reminding us that proper form is something to be constantly thought about and focused on. Highly recommended
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Summary: I too was a nonbeliever
Review: At first, I was skeptical. How could a single book teach a technique that would help someone run faster and injury-free? How you can you teach someone to run? Dr. Romanov has written a book that has done all that. There's a certain art to running. Without the POSE method, you are like banging random notes on the piano. With the POSE method, you are able to play beautiful concerto with your running shoes and the ground.
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Summary: Great Running Method
Review: I brought the book and the DVD about 8 weeks ago. I have been using the method since then. Initially my calves hurt alot. But, I think I overdid it. My first run using the method was 3 miles..then a week later..it was 8 miles. Any way after, 6 weeks the calves pain went away. I did my first 50K run using the method a few days ago. It was amazing how easy and effortless it felt. I did the same run last year with my old heel to toe method and my hip and legs ached afterward. What a contrast. I'm working now to increase by speed via faster turnover. I recommend this method to everyone having chronic injuries. BTW..I was originally going to buy the chi running book but it just had too much "new age", "spiritual" stuff. The pose book had more hard technique and method..none of that soft, touchy, feely stuffs...
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Summary: POSE method opens a way to new perception of running
Review: Many of us, who loves running, consider it to be one of the most natural and innate human abilities.
"Why bother about running technique? - Just pile up the mileage, improve endurance and be ready for races." This is the typical approach for training for the vast majority of runners.
Proper running technique is not just underestimated but simply ignored subject even for experienced runners.
The POSE method of running fills the very important gap in literature about running - this book TEACHES how to run correctly. Correctly means fast easy and injury free. This book is not about newly developed way of running - everything about running technique already developed and top-notch athletes demonstrate many examples of perfect running style.
The great achievement of Dr. Romanov is development of concept that not SHOWS but rather gives PERCEPTION of proper running technique. Author builds this perception through the number of thoroughly selected concepts and examples. Second part of the book advance reader from theory to practice. Building of correct running starts from the mastering of basic skills with the help of various drills (companion DVD is highly recommended for good understanding of drills).
Finally Dr. Romanov gives to reader some thoughts about mental preparation for training - which is one of the serious issues on the way to good running performance.
Personally, I really admire with this book - although I am a runner with a more than 20 years of experience - this book in some extend opened my eyes on running. I'm mastering the POSE method for about 3 months. Although it was a challenge at the beginning to break old well-developed habits of running and adopt new techniques - now I really discovered a new world of running - running with far higher speed lightness and satisfaction.
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Summary: fly away running
Review: Pose method is a great way to teach running to anyone. Harnessing gravity and minimizing contact with the ground you can actually feel like flying.
This book is very simple and does not only introduce the running method, it also gives Dr. Romanov's view of running and how learning to run is a very enjoyable experience.It contains the theory behind safe, technical running and many exercises shown in pictures to achieve a good running technique by anyone, not just the elites.
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Summary: Best Book for Running Faster and Preventing Injury
Review: This book is the real thing. After reading and doing some of the exercises in this book, I can run a mile more than a full minute faster at the same level of effort as I did before applying the Pose Method. And I have not even started to do more mileage or interval training, which I had given up years ago because it always led to more injuries. Another benefit from my using the Pose Method is that my knees no longer hurt after several miles, and the burning I used to get in my quadriceps muscles (front thighs) after long runs is gone. This is directly related to Dr. Romanov's points about landing on one's toes. I also notice that my hamstrings(muscles at back of thighs) are getting stronger and larger,without incurring injury. I have always wondered why most of the elite distance runners, especially the Africans, have such large thighs, especially their hamstrings. Now I know, they naturally and unconsciously run according to most or all of the principles of the Pose Method! If you don't believe me, videotape or Tivo an elite running race, and watch the runners in slow motion. And notice how well developed their hamstrings are compared to those of the average recreational runner.
Reading this book, watching myself run, and remembering how I used to run thirty years ago, it occurs to me that many young people instinctively run with the pose method, and that age, injuries (running and non-running related), a sedentary lifestyle, and age-related atrophy of abdominal, back, and hip muscles all combine to turn our running form into the worst type of ground-pounding jogging. Many people who give up running or jogging say they do so because their joints cannot take the pounding anymore. They assume that the pounding has always accompanied their running, and it is just that their bodies cannot take the same amount of stress as when they were younger. Well, there have been recent studies that suggest young runners actually place less mechanical "pounding" stress on their bodies than older runners running at the same or slower speeds. Dr. Romanov's book makes many points addressing the reduction or elimination of inefficient and harmful pounding mechanical stresses during running. In a very real sense, this book can be a fountain of youth for runners. It will give you back your younger running speeds and times, prevent recurrence of injuries, making you the runner you were when you were younger, or even better.
The Pose Method was initially counter-intuitive to this runner, whose running form had gradually deteriorated through the years. But it does work and it works wonders. You have nothing to lose but your injuries and frustrations of not running faster and farther. Dr. Romanov is doing the running community a great service. He truly does want everyone to be the best runner possible, and injury-free at that. Also, get the video or DVD to see exactly what Dr. Romanov means in the exercise drills.
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Summary: Leader of the pack
Review: This is a great book on running. Innovative, funny and very well written. Read it and change your (running) life.
Malcolm balk; author of "The Art of Running with the Alexander Technique"
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Summary: Strike the Pose...
Review: When I first read the Pose Method book, I was a bit skeptical, as it recommended such an incredibly different approach to running. However, after years of intermittent layoffs due to injuries, I was willing to try *anything* to be able to run again. After reading the entire book and practising running in Pose for a few months, the theories have gelled in my mind, and I can understand exactly where Dr. Romanov is coming from. Now it all seems so clear, I don't see how people can run any other way, and I know why injuries are so terribly common in the running population. Dr. Romanov provides good theoretical background for the Pose Method, explained in layman's terms, with a nice, chatty tone. In fact, the tone of the entire book is helpful, friendly, and supportive. It is neither dry nor didactic, even when reviewing the grounding in physics needed to understand the action of gravity in assisting ones running. One can tell by reading this work that Dr. Romanov's goal is to help people run -- nothing more, nothing less. He has discovered perhaps the greatest key ever found to running with fewer injuries and less effort and is sharing that discovery with the running world. The book contains many drills, exercises and stretches, which are extremely good to have on hand for future reference long after the reader has absorbed the text. Illustrations are good, probably about an 8 on a scale of 1-10. Sometimes it's hard to track exactly what movement is being requested, or what the difference in execution or benefit is between one and another. However, doing a few, or doing all over time, can only be helpful. Dr. Romanov wraps up this book with ways to review ones progress, and to identify and correct errors in form. This helps the self-taught student avoid stumbling into common pitfalls, and instead optimize results without necessarily having the benefit of personal coaching. Any runner who is tired of being injured, or who has reached a plateau in speed and is willing to revolutionize his or her form in order to reach a higher level of performance would benefit from and enjoy this book. A great read, and a great value.
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Summary: Pose Method of Running
Review: With the release of Pose Method of Running, the rumblings of the next running revolution have begun. Just in time to rescue the boomers sidelined with injury and burnout, Pose running is the inevitable progression that will spare future generations the same fate.
Dr. Romanov shares his remarkable vision of balancing mind and body to attain the gift of true, spirited, running that Nature intended us to have all along. With Pose, the future of running looks very bright indeed. If heeded, the lessons taught in this book are sure to allow runners to make profound improvements in their performance, while recapturing the joy of running that may have faded due to repeated injury.
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