So...I'm an overpronator, and I don't know what to do. Everytime I start running, I get injured, but I don't know if it's because I increase mile too quickly or if it's because I'm an overpronator. I really want to become an olympic athlete,, and I need some advice.
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What is the most likely cause of overpronation? Is it a misalignment of the skeleton or some other minor congenital deformation? Is it a learned thing which we carry from the days we learned to walk and run? Or is it a muscular inbalance which could be fixed by either stretching or strengthening the affected muscles?
Depending which it is maybe us overpronators could throw away our special aids and become "normal" well adjusted runners with a little training.
now to throw a spanner in the argument........ if your ABductor muscles are weak and the ADductors are tight then this will pull the knee inwards which will increase the effect of the pronation, strengthen the ABductors and stretch the ADductors and you can help the knee to track better and thus remove some of the visible pronation.
orthotics are best describled to be like reading glasses, they meake your feet FUNCTION better they do not make your feet better, they can/do however reduce the stresses on the various muscles of the foot and this can help recovery from injuries.
on the other side of the coin there is a 'system' called feldenchist [sp] which aimes to take the body back to the state it was on leaving the womb , before we inflict it to gravity?????
hope this all makes sense , i am never good at puting this stuff in writing
Looks like the word is feldenkrais - although almost any long word starting with f seems to lead google there eventually.
well I know this is a very old post as here we are in 2012 but I just put feldenkrais into the search to see what came up - if you are still interested all these years later and live in the UK,
I am doing feldenkrais for runners workshops in crouch end north london in feb 2013. Not sure if its kosha to put details on here so google me and you will find them. It is indeed a fabulous method.
Feldenkrais!?
How about Fuckaduck!
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I'd rather not be googling the latter Ric