CrossFit Running Certification | Day 1

July 19, 2008 · Filed Under crossfit metro blog · Comment

Crossfit Run Endurance Certification is designed to bring a ‘standard’ to running and endurance training – and naturally, is created to complement CrossFit training.

CrossFit Run Endurance Certification | Day One

Today, we started the day with individual introductions expressing our love/hate for running, our CrossFit experience, injury experience, and what we hoped to get out of the Cert.

Brian Mackenzie, founder of the certification and experienced ultrarunner and endurance athlete, began the morning with some solid lecture and explanation to the prescribed running technique, which is very similar in principles and methodology of the POSE running technique.

Video Doesn’t Lie

Then, it was on to the video session where Brian videotaped each runner. This is where everything we thought we were doing was proven wrong. Video doesn’t lie, you know.

Brian went through and analyzed each runners video segement, in a group setting with all of us, and the instructors took note of:

Our body position, including hips, shoulders, and head
Our stride positions
Our time of impact
Our individual running issues – pronation, supination, etc…
How long it took before our the balls of our feet were below hip
How long our feet were on the ground
How extreme our rear leg lock-out was or was not
How long we were airborne

The goal is balance. The runner is less prone to injury when in the air. Interesting…

Drills, Drills, Drills

Next was a series of drills to help us reprogram our running strokes and implement more of a hamstring-pull movement when coming off the ground. We also worked on the concept of “posing” and then “falling”.