What No One Tells You About Footstrike
By Jae Gruenke | Natural Running Form , Running Performance
Plantar fasciitis or fasciosis, achilles problems, runner’s knee, lower back pain… improving your form by working to change your
By Jae Gruenke | Natural Running Form , Running Performance
Plantar fasciitis or fasciosis, achilles problems, runner’s knee, lower back pain… improving your form by working to change your
By Jae Gruenke | Natural Running Form
The responses to my last two posts on how to run well on a treadmill have made it clear that runners of all kinds and levels agree on one thing:
By Jae Gruenke | Natural Running Form
In the last post I explained why treadmill running can feel so unnatural and what good treadmill running form looks like. But there’s more
By Jae Gruenke | Natural Running Form
It’s much harder to have good running form on a treadmill than on solid ground. The lack of wind resistance changes your muscular effort and
By Jae Gruenke | Natural Running Form
The past two weeks I’ve covered the 2 major effects sitting in chairs has on your running. The first–trouble extending your hips
By Jae Gruenke | Natural Running Form
Nothing you do in your life affects your running as powerfully as spending eight or more hours a day sitting. Last week I explained the effect
By Jae Gruenke | Natural Running Form
After the chief dangers of running in very cold weather–hypothermia, frostbite, and slipping on ice–there are a handful of lesser-known
By Jae Gruenke | Feldenkrais for Runners , Natural Running Form
Someone recently asked me whether we need a special method for learning how to run. It was a rhetorical question, as the person was making a
By Jae Gruenke | Injury Recovery , Interviews , Natural Running Form
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of being interviewed on one of my favorite podcasts, Endurance Planet. Tawnee Prazak, the host, has
By Jae Gruenke | Natural Running Form
A couple of weeks ago this article from the Guardian came to my attention. It explains that German doctors are advising people to walk like
By Jae Gruenke | Natural Running Form
Though it can be harder to keep your fitness up, running through the holidays allows you to give yourself a truly valuable gift: novelty. Accept
By Jae Gruenke | Injury Recovery , Natural Running Form
Runners need to lean forward when they run. I’ve written before why that is; it’s also a cornerstone of ChiRunning, Pose Technique,
By Jae Gruenke | Natural Running Form , Running and Stress
The Olympics are right around the corner, and pretty soon we’re going to be looking at what helps people run fast. So let’s take a moment
By Jae Gruenke | Feldenkrais for Runners , Natural Running Form , Running and Stress
Four blog posts ago I started this series on running and stress by sharing a stress-reducing “orienting” exercise that involves simply looking