Video: How to Practice Good Running Form

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Long-distance runners should run efficiently by maintaining a good in-line body position and a neutral head position. Practice good running form with tips from a professional fitness trainer in this free video on running.

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Hi, I'm Les Whitley. Let's talk about how to practice good running form. Practicing good running form really depends on the type of running that you're doing whether it's sprinting, middle distance or long-distance type running. With long and middle distance running, you want to have a very efficient run maintaining a good in-line body position; upper body nice, loose and relaxed, efficient. Arms stayed tucked into the side, hands stay open or slightly clasped with the fingertips but not expending a lot of energy. The head should maintain a neutral position not leaning to the left or leaning to the right because again the goal there is maximizing your efficiency during those longer and middle distance races. Sprint form and sprint technique involves you being as powerful as you possibly can through a shorter distance. One of the techniques we use is wall drills simply to use to maximize not only your body's leaning position so that you're putting yourself in a good bio-mechanical situation to excel forward, heels slightly elevated, begin by lifting one knee up so that the body now in a leaning position is similar to that acceleration or that start position once you get into that max speed. The body is pushed away from the wall utilizing your arms for stability and stabilization, keeping your body in a good neutral position. Lift that knee up, then think head in a good relaxed position, eyes ideally, if you were moving down the track about three to four steps in front in you, pulling that toe up, then think drive back, replace the foot that's up in the air with the foot that's on the ground, switching positions, trying not to let your hips drift forward or stick out as your feet move so that you're actually moving from one position to the other maximizing that running efficiency so that it helps propel you through space more efficiently as well as faster.

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