I’ve been thinking more lately about organizing my strength training for the Women’s Running Academy more in the framework of skills I want you to be able to execute.
All of course, so that your running stride can be as efficient as possible.
There are a few more tangents I could go off on this but here’s a few of the most important fundamentals:
1- Orient the pelvis without squeezing your glutes. A big piece of this is finding those proximal hamstrings (check my post from last week for more on that)
2- Stand on one leg… like really on it. That means being able to internally rotate into that hip and load your glutes through length.
3 - Rotate and counter-rotate through the pelvis and torso. We need both our hips and our rib cage to move efficiently.
4 - Hip extension before knee extension. Another foundation of all the co-contraction stuff I talked about last week.
5 - Springy feet. Efficiently storing energy and releasing energy through our tendons. To be clear, I’m definitely not saying everyone should run without the heel ever touching. This pogo is just a good practice for keeping things springy.
Skills + Strength = 🔥🔥🔥🔥
