Runner's World Your Best Stride: How to Optimize Your Natural Running Form to Run Easier, Farther, and Faster--With Fewer Injuries - Softcover

Beverly, Jonathan; Editors Of Runner's World Maga

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1623368979 ISBN 13: 9781623368975

Publisher: Harmony/Rodale, 2017

Synopsis

Most books on running form revolve around the premise that there is an ideal form all runners should try to achieve. These books explain how that form should look and how runners can work to emulate it as closely as possible. Research and experience show, however, that people can run effectively in a wide variety of patterns with some key universal elements. Unfortunately, the constraints of our modern lifestyles change how we move, limiting our range of motion and weakening key muscle groups. Runner's World Your Best Stride is designed to help runners counteract those forces and regain their own unique, powerful and effective stride that will carry them through endless, injury free miles. Building off of his viral Running Times article from April 2014, "It's All in the Hips," author Jonathan Beverly details his search for common ground among physical therapists, podiatrists and coaches on which elements of running form are universal and how to improve them. For instance, he explores how footstrike is actually a by-product of the movement in your knees, torso and arms. Specific exercises show readers how to counteract tight muscles from excessive sitting, howto improve limited arm mobility from hunching over electronic devices, and ways to improve speed by lengthening your stride. All of this culminates in an approachable guide to human movement, and a practical tool for improvement.

About this title

Review:

"Your Best Stride is every runner's guide to the biomechanics necessary to make running more comfortable, enjoyable, and faster."
--DEENA KASTOR, U.S. Olympian

"Your Best Stride reflects the most up-to-date research and thinking on running technique in an accessible, practical format."
--ROBERT M. CONENELLO, sports podiatrist, past president of the American Academy of Podiatric Sports Medicine

About the Author:

Jonathan Beverly was the editor in chief of Running Times magazine from 2000-2015. In addition to overseeing the magazine's tone, editing all text and working closely with designers during these years, he wrote 150 editor's notes, more than 35 feature stories and numerous smaller training articles, athlete profiles, race reports, and shoe and gear reviews. His features have ranged from in-depth training articles and athlete profiles to thought-provoking essays about various aspects of the sport. Prior to becoming editor, Jonathan wrote regularly for Runner's World, Running Times, and other outlets as a freelancer during the 1990s. He has run 26 marathons and innumerable road and trail races throughout the world. He also coached adult runners with Bob Glover and the New York Road Runners Club during the 1990s, taught several community college running classes, and coached junior high and high school track and cross country since 2003. He lives on the border of Nebraska and Colorado.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harmony/Rodale
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1623368979
• ISBN 13: 9781623368975
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240