Master the art of running using the Alexander Technique Whether you're a beginner or an experienced runner, you can avoid putting unnecessary strain on your body by using the Alexander Technique - it worked for Linford Christie ! Based on the teaching of Frederick Matthias Alexander, the Alexander Technique has been taught and practised for over a hundred years and focuses on positive ‘body use’ – ensuring correct, effective posture, and economy of movement and effort. This means your musculo-skeletal system is working at its most effective to build strength and suppleness, help avoid injury and combat existing muscular or joint pain. Although we run in a forwards direction, the spine is happier lengthening upwards. With this in mind, it is important to let the head remain quietly poised on top of the spine and to look ahead rather than down. THE HEAD LEADS AND THE BODY FOLLOWS ! email me for more information - click here Read what some famous people have said about the Technique here. |