Master The Art of Running: Raising Your Performance With the Alexander Technique - Softcover

Balk, Malcolm; Shields, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843403390 ISBN 13: 9781843403395

Verlag: Collins & Brown, 2006

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Running is both a popular competitive sport and a highly effective form of exercisea simple, inexpensive way to achieve a wide range of cardiovascular, muscular, and emotional benefits. Now, by combining running with the healthful body-awareness principles of the Alexander Technique, runners can improve their competitive performance while multiplying the health benefits of the sport and virtually eliminating its hazards. The proven methods of the Alexander Technique encourage good body use and greater awareness of the way the body functions and moves. Applied to running, the Technique teaches how to release tension and run without risk of injury. With special exercises for the head, eyes, torso, and legs, this unique approach radically improves results, both in training and competition.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Malcolm Balk has taught sell-out Art of Running workshops for the past 15 years. These have helped thousands of people improve their running technique. They have also taken him around the world including North America, Australia and Europe.

Andrew Shields is a sport, health and fitness writer and editor. He is the author of six books and has twice been runner-up in the British Sports Journalism Awards. A former nationally ranked triple jumper, he is a qualified coach in several sports, including athletics, and recipient of a Special Award for Outstanding Achievement in Coaching from the London Active Partnership.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Collins & Brown
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1843403390
• ISBN 13: 9781843403395
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
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