Can Running Technique Be Taught?
By Matt Fitzgerald For Active.com The teaching of running technique has become popular lately. The top-selling running book of the last several years is Chi Running by Danny Dreyer, which teaches a quasi-yoga-based style of running that is purported to reduce injury risk. Dreyer has made a thriving business of Chi Running, with videos, clinics, and even a certification program that trains new instructors in the technique. The Chi Running method is very similar to the Pose running method, created by Nicholas Romanov, which has been around for many years but has really taken off only within the present decade. Once all but ignored, running technique is now the topic of countless magazine and website articles, is taught by a growing number of running coaches, and is intensively discussed on Internet chat forums and actual training runs. Underlying all of this discussion is a gradually spreading consensus that running technique can in fact be effectively taught–that there is an identifiab
