Friday 30 October 2009

A BIOMECHANICAL COMPARISON OF KENYAN AND JAPANESE ELITE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER’S TECHNIQUES

CLICK HERE

BUT DO KENYAN ATHLETES REALLY LEAN FORWARD WHEN THEY RUN?

Run to win: the training secrets

of the Kenyan runners

By Jürg Wirz CLICK HERE

5 comments:

gmc said...
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gmc said...

Interesting but when I do CLICK HERE
I get comparison of morphology of danish
and kenyan athletes.
BTW I don't really believe the thin calf theory (any
more) as Bekele has pretty muscly lower legs

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040821/spr1.jpg

As for the Japanese what about ?

http://www.asbweb.org/conferences/2005/pdf/0852.pdf

Ewen said...

I think it's a bit of a generalisation to compare the technique of "ALL" Kenyan and "ALL" Japanese runners as there'd be differences within both groups.

Anyway, nice going with the speed session the other day - certainly helps to run with faster runners for some sessions.

Ewen said...

Also, thanks for the various links. Interesting reading.

RICK'S RUNNING said...

Very good point Ewen.