Article: Is Your Running Form Helping or Hurting You?
Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned athlete, evaluating your biomechanics and really looking at good running form will be the difference between experiencing easy, effortless runs and ones that are a struggle and that result in muscle and joint soreness, or even injury.
ChiRunning® students are guided through many exercises designed to give them a clear sense of what the ChiRunning technique feels like in their body.
The ChiRunning program offers a real solution to the high rate of injury that mars the sport of running. Few people — even avid runners, have really considered whether their running form is helping or hurting them. Not surprisingly, 65% of runners will endure an injury each year. Most of the time it is poor form not the running itself that causes injuries.