Run faster and more effectively with 'The Running School'

By Beat Your PB on April 22, 2009

Sports Dimensions , one the UK’s leading multi-disciplinary sports injury and rehabilitation clinics based in Chiswick in West London, has launched a new innovative running programme called ‘The Running School’. The Running School teaches athletes about simple running biomechanics, balance and form and includes all the key technical factors involved with running faster, more efficiently and remaining injury-free.

Mike Antoniades, Founder of The Running School, and coach to a number of professional triathletes and track & field athletes to Olympic standard says: “We have designed modules to teach athletes how to run faster and more effectively as well as how to avoid common sports and running injuries. Many of us have never been taught how to run. We think its something that we pick-up naturally and we don’t realize until the pain begins that we are actually running inefficiently which can lead to injuries.”

How it works

The Running School programme will provide you with answers to questions including:

• How to use your arms while running?
• What is the best way for the foot to land?
• How can you run faster?
• How to reduce repetitive strain injuries?
• How can you change your inefficient running style?

The Running School believes that most of the injuries that runners get are because of landing shock. The running style that many novice runners and many seasoned recreational runners adopt is very inefficient and causes stresses and strains on the body, which causes the majority of runners, about 65%, to get injured every year, and the numbers are much higher when they enter a race and start increasing the volume or intensity of their running. The reason? Most haven’t been taught how to run.

Mike Antoniades adds: “After injury or surgery the biomechanics of how we move can change, and if not corrected and addressed this can lead to further injury or a slower recovery from the initial injury. The Running School techniques can also be used to re-train and re-educate runners post injury or surgery and as part of their rehabilitation programme. I am very excited about this new venture. I've not doubt at all that The Running School will help children and Runners of all ages, run faster, recover from injury quicker and increase levels of performance and enjoyment of sport.”
Want to run faster and more effectively?

For further information please contact: The Running School™ -www.runningschool.co.uk .

Tel: +44 (0) 20 8563 0007.