{"id":480,"date":"2015-03-19T15:36:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T15:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jgar.pw\/b\/?p=480"},"modified":"2015-08-26T03:42:42","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T03:42:42","slug":"chi-running-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jgar.pw\/b\/chi-running-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Chi Running Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an older post. I wrote it when I was training for the Long Beach 1\/2 Marathon<\/a>. Hope you find it helpful:<\/em><\/p>\n

If you read about running lately, I’m sure you’ve been exposed to the “Pose Method.” Before that, I purchased a book called Chi Running. The book is very similar to what I’ve read about Pose and I will attest that running the way recoomended helped me. I decided to try out the basic running form described in the book, which stresses the following:<\/p>\n

“The key to it all is that your foot never hits the ground in front of your body, which puts maximum strain on your knees.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Click above to get the book<\/p><\/div>\n

I bought this because I had severe shin splints. I would run a few miles and the pain would make me stop. I would have to wait for the pain to go away, and then try again. I was not making progress.<\/p>\n

I know I don’t do it correctly yet, but I decided to give\u00a0Chi Running\u00a0a shot and… IT WORKED! I did not suffer from shin splints or knee pain and was able to push my training forward. There is for sure something to this!<\/p>\n

I concentrated on keeping my body aligned, slightly bent forward, and ran at a higher than usual cadence for me. I tried not to over-stride and would make sure that me feet fell\u00a0under my body, not in front of it. I also ensured that I did not land on my heels, since this can lead to knee pain and the aforementioned shin splints.<\/p>\n

However, I’m still getting back into the swing of things, so I developed blisters. I am not used to landing on my whole foot and I was not wearing good socks. I ran a total of 2 miles, but I felt great. I even sped up a little after the first mile because I could feel blisters forming. I figured, if I’m going to get them, might as well go hard since I won’t last long out here. Overall, I was happy with my workout and will try again once the blisters heal up a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is an older post. I wrote it when I was training for the Long Beach 1\/2 Marathon. Hope you find it helpful: If you read about running lately, I’m sure you’ve been exposed to the “Pose Method.” Before that,… Continue Reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,33],"tags":[95,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jgar.pw\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jgar.pw\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jgar.pw\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jgar.pw\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jgar.pw\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/jgar.pw\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"http:\/\/jgar.pw\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jgar.pw\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jgar.pw\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jgar.pw\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jgar.pw\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}