27 March 2014

looking right in all the wrong ways

one of my favourite go-to sites for running tips is kinetic revolution and recently they've posted a couple of videos from south african-born olympic running coach bobby mcgee.  i'd not heard about bobby before, but after watching just these two quick clips i've become very much intrigued by what he has to share.  


while at first blush it doesn't come across as mind-blowingly new stuff (much of it is along the same lines of what i've found from mark cucuzzella and the natural running center), i was particularly impressed (maybe shocked?) to learn that one of my go-to drills - the 'high knees' - was something that i've been doing wrong for well over a year.  you might appreciate getting bobby's take on the 'right way' to do high knees from this video:


i plan on checking out the remainder of bobby's instructional stuff that is available online.  from what i've been able to scout out so far i'd recommend it to any of you as well - what or who would you recommend back?

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4 comments:

  1. We'll now we know what Janis Joplin saw in Bobby McGee...

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    1. i know, right?!? hard not to say that name and hum the song!

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  2. Great videos! I need to remember to lean from the ankles and not the waist. :/

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    1. thanks for reading and commenting, raina! i'd known about the 'lean from the ankles' for a while now, but when i envisioned my actual posture while running i always thought that i was dead upright. it wasn't until someone took a photo of me running down the road that i could actually see that i had a lean from the ankles going on!

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