fokus tips for athlēts: runners

Often, it's the small competitive advantage that makes the difference between a good performance, and a great performance. The best athletes understand that it's not big improvements that make a great day, but small, steady improvements over time. Consider as a runner, stride length.

At 170 strides per minute, at 44 inches per stride, a runner will cover a mile in 8:30.

At 160 strides per minute, at 46 inches per stride, a competing runner will run the same 8:30 pace.

At 170 strides per minute, at 46 inches per stride, the winner will run the same mile in 8:10.

That's a 5% improvement in stride length - and most runners would agree that 5% is a small improvement. This small improvement in stride length is largely a function of core strength (power in alignment) and flexibility (increasing range of motion through the rear ankle, knee and hip), both of which are core concepts of the Pilates Method. However, the Pilates Method goes further towards increasing your competitive edge. You'll train your body to react to athletic demand with control: alignment and breath control both reduce fatigue.

fitness coaching: feedback driven programming

The Power of Touch:

Personal Training at reform bode We believe in the value of personal touch and hands-on interaction, and we handle our clients accordingly. There is no more important or interesting part of our business than the time we spend with you. Fitness Coaching is no exception, and in fact is where we distance ourselves from other fitness coaches and personal trainers. We believe that in order for you to get the most out of the 165 hours you spend monitoring yourself every week, that the hours we spend with you each week should be focused. And while it's only a few hours we spend together, that's a few hours more than many coaches spend with their clients on a regular basis. It matters, and we know why.

Many people approach their fitness from a 'What can I fit in?' standpoint. And while this can often be turned into a sustainable approach for maintenance that we'll help you craft once you've reached your goals, you can not expect for it to be a path to fitness improvement. By the same token, understanding this alone is not the only challenge: many coaches see this problem, and simply prescribe a brute force diet of cardio mixed with a little cardio until you drop. However, because this is not a sustainable lifestyle change, once the cardio stops or slows down you'll find that your fitness will slowly degrade to what it was when you started. The Brute Force Cycle is unecessary if you understand the interplay of strength, eating and cardio, and how to tune your body for sustainable fitness, and how to understand where you are on the Fitness Effort Curve.

Putting It Together:

Fitness Coaching is truly the laboratory course work for the bode- fokus method where the 'soft stuff' of your accountability to self (your lifestyle choices) melds with the 'nuts and bolts' of personal training (the proper lines, shapes and spaces your body will memorize). You'll become increasingly self-directed as your sophistication with tuning your own feedback loop improves, and you find that you need us only for the tricky problems, or perhaps when you feel a new program will help you take a leap to the next level of fitness performance.