Why You Can’t Stop Hunching Your Shoulders When You Run
By Jae Gruenke | Natural Running Form
Your shoulders are achy and tight during and after runs. You try to relax them, you even try to pull them down, but eventually they always seem
By Jae Gruenke | Natural Running Form
Your shoulders are achy and tight during and after runs. You try to relax them, you even try to pull them down, but eventually they always seem
By Jae Gruenke | Natural Running Form
This week I got an email from a former client who’s quarantined in Spain, asking me for tips on running in place since he doesn’t
By Jae Gruenke | Natural Running Form
Are you working on your hamstrings or your hip flexors to help prevent injuries and improve your performance? If so, you might be disappointed
By Jae Gruenke | Natural Running Form
Get started right and you will avoid SO many problems later! These 4 steps are based on my nearly two decades of experience helping runners from
By Jae Gruenke | Interviews , Natural Running Form
“Hack” is not my favorite word. I suspect many distance runners and other endurance athletes feel the same way. We know the greatest
By Jae Gruenke | Natural Running Form
No matter what level of runner you are, chances are good that you don’t know how you start running. In fact, if you close your eyes right
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