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RE: Another week on the treadmill
What made you think of lifting your knees higher? Don't people do that as a warm-up?
What made you think of lifting your knees higher? Don't people do that as a warm-up?
I just thought of running differently to see if the different stimulus would have any affect, and it did :-)
I'm experimenting a lot with different running techniques, changing them on-the-fly to adapt to the different conditions of the trail or road.
Lifting your knees higher as you run does different things depending on the surface and steepness of the terrain you are running on.
It's really interesting to see the difference in effect, doing it running uphill and then doing it running downhill.
It also seems to take the pressure off my hip aductors as well (which seems odd).
If I 'shuffle' run, then after about 20km they really hurt. Changing to pulling my knees up makes that go away.
Weird huh? :-)
No not really, an over-used muscle will let us know or if it's wrongly used, pain tells us something. Plus the body can adapt to different ways we make it do things.
You can write a book about it as am sure runner athletes would like to know that. Or just post on its' own. What do u think?