Today sees the third and concluding part of our series on Running Economy. It’s been a whistle stop tour of a complex subject. We have no doubt that we’ll be returning to the topic in time, because it has major implications for how we understand fatigue and performance, but for now, we stuck to the […]
Running Physiology
Running Economy Part II
Today sees Part II of our series on Running Economy. After spending the first two posts and discussing the , today we move onto some fundamental concepts of running economy – the physiology and biomechanics of running economy explained (partly, we hope!) I say “fundamental” with some caution, because the more one digs into this […]
Running Economy Part I
we introduced a new series, Running Economy, inspired by this study, which was published just last week in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. It makes a great start to a series that we’ll build on next week, looking at the importance of running economy to performance. We must of course make the disclaimer that […]
Running Economy Introduction
[headline h=2]Zersenay Tadese – the most economical runner in history?[/headline] Well, a provocative headline for sure, but that’s pretty much what a SCIENTIFIC study has suggested after measuring the oxygen consumption and running economy of the World Cross Country and Half Marathon champion recently! The study, published just the other day in the British Journal […]
Pose Running reduces running economy
About 4 weeks ago, we ran a , evaluating the Pose and Chi methods for running. In that series, we looked at: That was an epic series (to write and to read, no doubt!), but basically our conclusions were: Of course, there are people for whom Pose or Chi will definitely work, and we say […]
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