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Three Ways To Avoid Slumping While Running and Run Further
How to look stronger, prouder and use less effort
Running slumped is something that I see often. The people running slumped look tired. Here’s the irony, when you slump it will make you more tired.
Here are three tips to get you looking stronger, prouder, and be able to sustain your running with less effort.
I’ve been running daily for a year on our local trails — it’s been a fantastic daily break during our nearly year of working from home. When a fluid runner goes by, it inspires me, but when a slumped runner struggles towards me I want them to hold their head up, breathe more deeply, and find their rhythm.
Running every day (from 4km to 12km) requires constant body awareness as I have to adjust my posture, pace, breathing, movement, and foot strikes to avoid repetitive use injuries. I’ve also learnt a simple truth — when you look better running, you also feel better and use less energy.
When you run slumped, you look tired, feel tired, and it’s an effort to keep going. But just because you are tired doesn’t mean that you should allow yourself to slump into that tiredness. Doing that will only make everything worse for you.
