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ChiRunning: A Training Program for Effortless, Injury-Free Running Imagine running like a child once again?effortless, free, boundlessly energetic, without injury or soreness. Ultramarathoner Danny Dreyer combines the wisdom of T?ai Chi with the insights of a champion runner to present ChiRunning, a step-by-step audio program adapted from his popular book (Fireside, 2004) to help beginner, intermediate, or professional runners alike access their own childlike stamina and ease-of-motion.Running is immensely popular, but more than 16 million are injured each year doing just that. ?It doesn?t have to be that way,? explains Danny Dreyer. ?Running can and should be healthy, energizing, and good for your entire body.? With ChiRunning, he invites us to learn how to: ? Tap into chi energy to shorten or eliminate your post-run recovery from days to hours, and dramatically decrease your risk of injury ? Never again suffer from knee pain or shin splints ? Make running any distance possible and enjoyable, from 5Ks to 50-mile-plus ultra-marathons Featuring a guided CD to take with you on your next run, ChiRunning will show you how to make posture, breathing, mindfulness, and relaxation a natural part of your routine.
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Customer Review: A Life Changing Book
This is a book that can change your life. On the surface this book is about “harnessing chi” to improve your running, but it’s more about developing proper technique and developing your run into a meditative experience. This book helps you develop proper foot strike and position, leg bend and swing, posture, lean, arm swing, breathing, focus, developing speed and distance, as well as how to focus your mind on the run and improving. The authors also cover basics of stretching, hydration, nutrition … everything you need to drastically improve your run. I’ve been running for four years and have suffered through painful knees and lower back spasms without any significant gains in speed or distance, but in the month since reading this book I’ve nearly doubled my weekly average and the pains are gone. Truly a life changing book.

Running should be analyzed, broken down into smaller parts drills, and then taught correctly. Foot alignment, knee lift, heel lift, arm swing, and even where the athlete is focusing should be trained individually, corrected, and practiced frequently. Perhaps during training, each portion of the run or the drills should be used as a warm up for training or for a more enjoyable experience, as relay races. For a relay race each movement of the run can be performed by a different teammate. Another idea is to have every participant in the race perform a certain portion or movement of the running technique. A great contest idea for athletes is to use the arm swing for the run; once the correct elbow angle and swing (alternate motion of forward and back) are learned, the number of arm swings per 30 seconds can be timed. Coaches must watch that the athletes keep their arms bent throughout the swing rather than bending and straightening with each swing. The “karate chop” motion is popular a …