Did you know 70% of runners are injured in their career?
Which is where we come in...in a nutshell we will teach you how to run efficiently, more powerfully and most importantly biomechanically correctly so that you can avoid common injuries and run faster, stronger, for longer.
Our instructors are keen runners themselves and know the pain and pleasure of beating that PB or competing in a new distance for the first time.
We therefore offer the unique experience of knowing exactly how and when to push you hard so you perform at your best, yet teach your body how to avoid those all-too-common runners problem.
Traditional Running Injuries/Pain
- Runners’ Knee – aka Patellafemoral Syndrome is caused by an imbalance between your glutes, quadriceps, short inner thigh muscles, and your Iliotibial Band (ITB). It causes pain around the knee cap, particularly the lower aspect of the knee.
- Lumbar Spine – pain usually occurs when running down hills, or when you lead a sedantry working life.
- Calves – caused by running on the balls of your feet, overusing gastrocnemius, and not using the active suspension of the arch of the foot.
- Hips – caused by poor lumbopelvic stability, the knees roll in through the centreline.
How we help
Most of these injuries are due to overuse, i.e. incorrect biomechanical technique. We help prevent you becoming a statistic and enable you to achieve your running goals by teaching you:
- Awareness of the deep abdominals, the foundation of a fast efficient runner.
- How to activate your glutes (Max and Medius). This pulls the femur back into extension, unloading the knee joint.
- How to stop your deep back muscles (Quadratus Lumborum) from overworking, thus avoiding spasm and pain.
- How to engage your inner and outer quadriceps muscles to keep your knee tracking neutrally.
Your COREfit® Running Programme
First up we get you on the treadmill and video your footstrike and technique. We then analyse your shoe pattern and run through a battery of muscle balance tests.
We then literally teach you how to run properly – heelstrike, abs on, shoulders-back etc. This enables you to control your stride length, breathe efficiently...we then train you to identify the correct muscles to recruit for a range of conditions – hill climbing, sprinting, time trialling, endurance etc.
Finally we train these muscles to work outside their comfort zone, making you a stronger, more efficient, more powerful runner. Also, very importantly we also train you to understand how and why common running injuries happen and how to prevent them.
See our BioSPORT Learn to REALLY Run Package.
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