Five tips from Dean Karnazes to improve running form

Legendary Dean Karnazes, the winner of the most difficult among ultramarathon - Badwater Ultramarathon and the man who has run 50 marathons in 50 days in 50 different states in his blog on Runner's World gave five tips on how to improve the running form, just by making small changes in their daily a life.

1. Do not stand just so

Dean enjoys himself and all advises use a desk for working while standing because seat weakens our body instead of the usual table. But we should not just stand, you can spend that time to good use. Rise on tiptoe for 10 times alternately to the left and on the right foot. First, repeat the exercise during the day 3-5 times, gradually increasing the number of sets of 8-10 per day. This will help strengthen the lower leg, if you do not believe me, look at Dean shin.

2. Ai, bakes!

Pepper, ginger and turmeric have anti-inflammatory effects, so enough to swallow a handful of pills, better chew chili peppers.

3. Stolozhneniya

Exercise without going far from your desk. Hang the bar, buy a yoga mat, and one of the office chairs turn into a simulator for push-ups (he still you no longer need after the purchase of a table for standing). Now between parsing email'ov, meetings and chore you can do a set of exercises, consisting of pull-ups, push-ups and sit-ups. This will affect positively not only the muscles, but also on the productivity.

4. Be gofer (literally)

In the race there is no such thing as "extra kilometers", every step counts. Finally buy a backpack and use running as a means of transportation: instead of a trip to the bank or to work to run off. No need to run fast just trotted. Of course it is not necessary to replace such jogging workout routine. Forget about the car and transport in order to overcome a pair of kilometers.

5. Relax

In yoga, there is a saying: "Yoga is good for running, but running is not very good for yoga." Perhaps you will not be able to twist himself into a ram's horn, but a little bit of yoga does not hurt to improve results in the race, it is wonderful for stretching helps strengthen the muscles and to adjust the heat transfer (especially Bikram Yoga).

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