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Pilates for Running with Caroline Sandry
Posted by Anonymous on Wed, 2008-06-04 10:51
In this video TV presenter, personal trainer and Pilates expert Caroline Sandry takes you through a number of Pilates exercises that are of specific benefit to runners. The exercises will strengthen and stretch areas prone to tightness and injury among runners of all speeds, distances and ages.
Caroline begins with warm up exercises that you can do before your run and then provides some great core strengthening moves that will bolster your running muscles. These can be done after your runs or as a stand-alone workout. You could also select some of the exercises to perform in your resistance training workouts.
Comments
Crunches and 100's
One of the most prevalent postural deviations is "forward head" where the head is forward of the shoulders and the thoracic spine is overly rounded. Traditional crunches and especially the 100's in Pilates re-enforces this problem by forcing the head forward and putting length-tension pressure on the traps, while shortening the abdominals further pulling the rib cage down. The athlete ends up with a great looking six-pack at the expense of the neck and thoracic. I've seen so many neck, shoulder and thoracic spine injuries caused by doing exercises with the head forward of the body (in Yoga, Pilates and other exercise routines) in my experience as a trainer. I'm surprised you have included these two Pilates ab exercises in your sports injury bulletin. There are so many other ways of strengthening the abs without pressing the head and neck forward. I was hoping this site would give more alternatives to the usual fare.
Loretta Reilly, NASM
The Back & Neck Center, Cortlandt Manor, New York
Tone my body
Hi everybody
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righton
have to agree with loretta - not really impressed with exercise selection. very "watery" choices, not really any lateral stability work (those side leg lifts and storks wouldnt cut it), and from my understanding runners suffer more from tfl / itb problems than quads, yet she mentions a hip flexor strengthening movement?? as a core based trainer I use pilates exercises often, but these choices were just not functional enough
scott rose bhms
exercise scientist sydney oz