The Pose Method of Running and Movement Mechanics with Tracy Peal
Season 2, Episode 15 | Podcast #34
We know that as the weather warms up more of you are starting to lace up your running sneakers, so we are bringing you this replay from Season 1 all about running mechanics with the incredible Tracy Peal. Dr. Mike Quintans chats with elite performance coach, movement specialist, and running guru, Dr. Tracy Peal. Peal implements the pose method of running, created by Dr. Nicholas Romanov, and combines it with in-the-moment observation to give his athletes the best results in a way that is unique to them.
Peal’s Background
Tracy Peal is a Philadelphia native and played football, baseball, and basketball as a kid, although he gravitated more toward basketball. He got recruited by Penn State from Salesianum High School where he got All-State. Then he went to the University of Delaware to finish his sport and education. After graduation, he started running half-marathons, training for powerlifting, and eventually diathalons.
Eventually became a triathlon coach which is when he came across Dr. Nicholas Romanov's Pose Method of Running.
The Pose Method
The Pose Method is a general movement theory based on the idea that we are in a gravitational field. Movement is all two things. Gravity is body weight, body weight is potential energy. Free-falling is the kinetic energy. There’s an up and down from potential energy to kinetic energy and back. Your job is to un-weigh yourself from the ground. If you weigh yourself quickly, then you can get yourself into the next post for the body to fall again.
The quicker the body catches up to your foot, the less chance of injury.
Usain Bolt is a great example of perfect form under the pose methodology.
Working with Athletes
Peal prefers to meet athletes and work with them “where they do what they do” by training on the field or on the track. He says, if a soccer player is feeling pain or struggling with their kick form, he wants to see them in action, kicking on the field.
It is so important to meet the athlete where they are that day. Understanding their mood, energy, tensions, and pain points before training will allow coaches and trainers to truly help their athletes.
Peal focuses on seeing the athlete in all different postures and different movements. With his training and focus, he can accurately predict a runner’s issues by how they stand, then how they walk.
A lot of the process of helping an athlete run and move better is explaining the mechanics, trying the adjustments, then reassessing.
CONTACT
Instagram - @tracypeal
Facebook - @tracypealspeed
Twitter - @tracypealspeed
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