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Strength training 2: To be a better runner, I just need to run. Right?

The Run Smarter Podcast

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How to Improve Running Technique and VO2 Max

Gain three is improving running technique. There's no one correct technique for everyone, nor do we try to correct biomechanics. If you are pronating your feet, if the knees are slightly collapsing in, if there's a minor hip drop, we don't worry too much about those angles because it shows that there's no correlation with injury or performance of any kind. But you do have runners, especially new runners, who just run sloppy. And if you want to improve your running efficiency, the body needs to act quite rigid. It needs to be like an efficient, effective spring, like a spring mechanism. When you plant yourself one foot on the ground and you push off,

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