The Role of Super Efforts
The Way of Running delves into a world unknown to most runners: we have much more strength than we think.
Popular running culture tends to reflect the beliefs and priorities of the era that generates it. History is a way of knowing and explaining both continuity and change in our sport over time.
The Way of Running delves into a world unknown to most runners: we have much more strength than we think.
We all conform to a common blueprint but we learn to run in ways that accommodate our unique running fingerprint.
One slight problem with today’s so-called “mindfulness movement†is due to vague, lofty claims and generalizations about what it is and what it can do, especially in the area of human performance.
Understanding the physiological effects of positive emotions such as caring, compassion or appreciation for someone or something can actually go a long way in helping people reduce their risky training behaviors.
It’s largely through heightened body awareness that past traumas can be renegotiated and revisited rather than relived repeatedly.