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Miguel Maeso

Coach of elite athletes

Different running techniques

ear friends, here I am once again and Pendulum technique, the foot and the entire lower body
this time I have prepared a summary work in unison like a pendulum. When the foot is in the air,
about different ways of running and the knee hardly flexes and the foot returns to the start very
their techniques. close to the previous contact (it goes back and forth in the
same way, just like a pendulum).
To begin with, we must bear in mind
Dthat there are two fundamental run- Circular technique, the ankle (and foot) practically makes a
circle. The foot lifts off the ground with the knee and ankle
ning techniques, circular and pendulum. The first is used in full extension, rising when the hip and knee flex. The foot
when we run at high speeds, for example, in athletics it is passes close to the level of the knee that is closest to the
used from 50 m to practically 1,500 - 3,000 m. The second ground, descending until it meets the ground again. The cir-
is used especially in endurance distances, from 5,000 m up cular technique is divided into anterior and posterior cycle,
to the marathon. but that is another matter.

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