Day 1 of the CrossFit Endurance Seminar is complete and we back for Day 2 at CrossFit 714 in Orange, CA to wrap everything up.   Today we’ll go in depth on programming and how to construct workouts to help prepare for endurance events.  Highlights from Day 1 included:

• Learning the importance of running mechanics.  Posture, falling, and pulling are the three concepts to efficient running mechanics.
• Proper running mechanics also help in injury prevention as upwards of 85% of runners experience an injury during any given year which is on par with football.  Avoid heel striking, landing with your knee locked, straightening your leg to push off, leaning over at the waist, and looking down.  These will add up over long runs and add up to overworked muscles and injuries that can damper any training program.
• We talked about how the body’s nutrition varies depending on the time length of the race.  Hydration, electrolytes, and overall nutrition become more and more of a priority as the length on the race increases.  It is important to have a good nutrition protocol on race day.
• The CrossFit Endurance staff filmed us running and critiqued our form.  They took us through a number of running drills designed to help us improve our running mechanics and to practice if we ever hope to decondition ourselves from the grasp of the traditional running mentality of reach, pull, push to the efficiency of pose, fall, pull.

If you have any general questions please post them so we have a chance to run them by the CF Endurance staff while they’re at our disposal.  Enjoy your Sunday everyone!

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