ChiRunning: A Revolutionary Approach to Effortless, Injury-Free Running
What exactly is Chi Running? It’s about taking running from a chore, and making it feel more effortless, more comfortable and well – it’s posture, it’s about using your body’s structure, and it’s about energy. It uses basic ideologies from Tai Chi and incorporates them into running.
I am still reading and learning more, but I did start playing with this concept this week. I watched a couple of videos on YouTube and I’m reading the book….
Okay – so I’m working on changing my posture just a bit – and I’ve got to honestly say, WOW! I’m a new runner as it is, so I’m still learning as I go. What was cool though, was that by simply changing my posture a little bit, it’s taken the muscle soreness out of my legs! I ran 4 miles last night (a lot for me!) and my legs aren’t sore at ALL today. It’s crazy…before a day after I ran, I’d feel it in my legs. I’m telling you, between this shift in my posture (and my beloved STICK – I use the travel size one below, perfect for me) – my legs feel nothing!
I also felt as I was running, it took less effort on my part. I’m excited to keep learning, keep reading, and work on finding my perfect position – because I think this is going to help me in the endurance and speed area down the line.
When I first got involved in running again, if you scroll back through my blog, I was buying up books left and right. This is a book I had marked to read, but forgot about for a short bit…and then I was on my favorite running forum, and somebody had mentioned this book again. It caught my attention, and I decided to pick up this book after all….man, I’m glad I did.
I TRULY think this book is going to make a big difference to my running, and how I feel not only as I run, but how I feel after I run. In only one short week – I’ve noticed differences – now they weren’t HUGE, MASSIVE, OH MY GOSH differences, but they were CERTAINLY there, and I noticed them. More notable, I don’t notice my legs today…no soreness at all!
This is something you may want to check out. If you aren’t into reading – I’m an avid reader, so I absorb this stuff, at least take a moment to check out a video or two. Cool stuff…
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