Audiences: Intermediate to advanced distance runners as well as running coaches. Reach your running potential with Coach Coogan Achieve peak running performance Coach Mark Coogan shares his successful formula for running fast—while staying healthy and happy—without running taking over your life. Learn the physical and psychological strategies needed to build an aerobic base, balance hard work and recovery, achieve good running form, and turn adversity into an advantage. You’ll find training schedules for everything from the mile to the marathon, 30 videos showcasing strengthening and warm-up exercises, and running drills to make you a stronger runner. KNEE TO CHEST TO LEG BEHIND QUAD STRETCH Why to Do It This exercise improves your flexibility and warms up your muscles. When you pull your knee toward your chest, you’re stretching your hamstrings, adductors, and the muscles around your hips and butt. When you do the quad pull, you’re stretching the front of your leg, the quads. This stretch allows you to run more smoothly. How to Do It Take a couple of steps, and then take one knee with both hands and pull it toward your chest. You should feel a good stretch at the top of your hamstrings. Then let the leg go back to the ground, take another step, and grab the same leg at the ankle with the same side hand, and pull it back toward your butt to get a good quad stretch. Your knee should be pointing toward the ground. Your opposite arm can reach toward the sky to increase the stretch. Stay tall; don’t bend too much in any direction and try to have good posture. Keep your core engaged during the entire exercise. Once you’ve done the knee to the chest and the quad stretch, take another step and continue the exercise with the opposite leg. Do two to four sets for 20 meters (about five to six reps) each.
✔ Author(s): Mark Coogan,Scott Douglas,Elle St. Pierre
✔ Title: Personal Best Running: Coach Coogan’s Strategies for the Mile to the Marathon
✔ Rating : 4.9 out of 5 base on (30 reviews)
✔ ISBN-10: 1718214715
✔ ISBN-13: 9781718214712
✔ Language: English
✔ Format ebook: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, HTML and MOBI
✔ Device compatibles: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle
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