Your Guide To Injury-Free Running: How To Be a Better Runner

How to understand, evaluate and improve your running to run injury free and become a happier and better runner.

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Your Guide To Injury-Free Running: How To Be a Better Runner
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Mar 2015
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What you will learn

Understand the physiology behind your running

Understand the mechanics behind your running

Evaluate your running posture and technique

Improve on previous training mistakes

Overcome the bio-mechanical limitations that have prevented you from improving in the past

Become an overall better and happier runner

Understand how aerobic and anaerobic training affects you on different levels

Understand the mechanics of running

Evaluate your running on a regular basis using a simple 3 point self-evaluating tool

Principles to prevent injury and overtraining

Understand the 'rules' that govern running and know how to follow them to your best benefit

Why take this course?

This course is presented to you by South African Physiotherapist Christoff Smit.

Running is one of Christoff's great passions and he has spent most of his life pursuing this passion. For the past 10 years, his focus as a physiotherapist has been mainly on the treatment and prevention of running injuries. He also coaches and advises runners of every level.

Common mistakes are often made because people don’t understand the rules of running...just like there are rules to driving your car to prevent engine problems or crashes, there are rules to running...that is if you want to prevent engine problems and crashes! Not following these rules is the primary reason for injuries and limitations on improvement.

In this course, Christoff introduces you to these running rules and shares the most important things he has learnt over the years, both as a runner himself and as a practising physiotherapist. These lessons, will not only help you improve as a runner, but also allow you to find greater joy in your running.

"The person from whom you seek help must understand the importance of your running to you. It's patently ridiculous to accept advice from someone who is antagonistic or indifferent to your running in the first place".

-- Prof. Tim Noakes

Christoff's personal message to you:

"Running is special. It is just you, a pair of running shoes and the time or distance you are trying to beat.

Most other sports include a ball, a bike or whatever else you fancy. The “ problem” here is that with running, you are providing the forces, the suspension and the stability... and more than 80% of those that regularly run will get injured.

That is what statistics tell us.

So what if there was a way to lower your risk of injury and still make improvements?

Well there is!

There are rules or guidelines that can help you do both, but unfortunately many, if not most runners don’t know the rules, or simply don’t follow them.

This course is an attempt at helping every runner to understand the rules of their engine and mechanics. It also serves to evaluate your current state and to evaluate yourself on a regular basis in the process of making long term improvement.

There is a lot of information out there on running and exercise, but much of it is very opinionated and does not really help us to see the big picture.

Most of what I present in this course is based on sound principles and evidence, and a bit of trial and error.

So maybe the frustration of injury or struggling to make improvements have made you forget why running is special? Maybe you just need some perspective or just some information to guide you in the right direction.

Let me help you to understand, evaluate and improve your running."

This course aims to help you understand, evaluate and improve your running on both a systemic and mechanical level, and it is around these three pillars which the course is structured:

Systemic: Refers to the physiology of your running and developing your runners engine

Mechanical: Refers to the biomechanics of your running and assessing your levers and connective tissue development

1. Understand your running at a systemic level

Students are introduced to Aerobic and Anaerobic training and how differences between these two forms of training affect you at four different levels: Metabolic, Stress, Musculoskeletal and Skill/Technique.

2. Understand your running at a mechanical level

You learn the mechanics behind what should, ideally, be happening at each of your joints as you run.

3. Evaluate your running at a systemic level

Students are taught how to evaluate their running using Christoff's 3 point self-evaluating tool.

4. Evaluate your running at a mechanical level

You are taught how to evaluate your running posture and technique.

5. Improve your running at a systemic level

Students are shown how they can improve on previous training mistakes .

6. Improve your running at a mechanical level

You are taught how to overcome the bio-mechanical limitations that have prevented you from improving in the past.

So. are you ready to get cruising with Christoff? Then come join us in the course below!

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Reviews

Karina
January 3, 2021
Very helpful information! Gave great demonstrations and really broke it down so anyone could gain something from this course :)
Istvan
April 14, 2017
Boring. I appreciate his knowledge, but sitting in a room and talking about running is some kind of boring stuff
Emre
May 28, 2016
The instructor speaks really clearly and is easy to understand. He is knowledgeable and passionate about the topic. The course is full of valuable information. The only lacking part is the presentation of the course. I think, the instructor reading from slides 90% of the course isn't really engaging or tempting. More animations or other visual material could be added to improve the course. I've learned a lot, thank you very much.
Kevin
April 21, 2016
I don't understand a thing, I hate your way of teaching completely, you do not excite your student, you stay indoors, you have a silly background, you use technical mambo jambo without explaining the words. What is anaerobic vs aerobic, and why are you not talking naturally to the camera "I thought you were an expert"... I am not convinced that this was an added value to watch in order to run safely without injuries...
Larry
July 9, 2015
Too much science, no handouts, no demo, no assignments. Like u r in a class listening to a long lengthy lecture from a boring professor with graphs and photos. Highly not recommended
Willem
June 14, 2015
This is definitely information that all runners should have novice to expert. I will recommend this course.
Rola
April 26, 2015
If you are a regular runner or just getting started, please do join this course to learn how to avoid injury and improve your running.
Bojan
March 19, 2015
I needed to take a step further and improve my running and running techniques. I found this course on Udemy and decided to give it a try. I can easily say that it has helped me a lot. Due to the tips and techniques shown here I did evaluation of my running and implemented techniques for systemic and mechanical running improvement. The production quality was top nudge and the trainer was high quality. Thank you for sharing such a great course.

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