149- How to Run Faster, Farther and Injury Free for Life w/ Dr. Nicholas Romanov
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2014
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The most powerful experiences in sport are when you find common ground with someone from another world. These insights enable a much deeper, richer understanding of your own craft.
One of the best examples I can think of features our guest this week, Dr. Nicholas Romanov, the developer of the Pose Method of running. He was participating in a little back and forth Crossfit Journal interview with Greg Glassman and Louie Simmons of Westside Barbell fame.
Without a doubt, the entire series is worth a watch. Knowledge bombs abounds, friends. It’s refreshing to see such disparate figures agree on so much, especially when it comes to training. One of the more relevant points for most athletes and coaches is speed, or as Louie would call it, “Perfect speed.”
Dr. Romanov’s take was that strength work was not enough on its own, not for the athlete. If you were a high jumper, for example, grinding away to increase the squat wouldn’t necessarily help you jump higher, not unless there was a concurrent effort to improve your rate of force development.
Strength on its own won’t do you any good. You need it right on time, as close to instantaneous as you can get. That’s when you perform at your best. You need to develop your maximal AND explosive strength. It’s not enough to just complete the reps on your work sets. Regardless of whether the load is heavy or fairly light, move that barbell as quickly as you can possibly manage. This will keep your nervous system fine tuned and ready for maximal effort all year round. You’ll make the most out of your training.
What was Louie’s idea of perfect speed? Well, when you lift you must try to get from the start to lockout as quickly as possible. Until the rep becomes instantaneous you have to keep fighting for more speed. Always faster, faster, if you work at this you too can become incredibly strong. You can jump higher, and run better.
Read more of Chris Moore's show notes here: http://daily.barbellshrugged.com/776/
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| 0:00.0 | This week on Barbell Shrugged, whenever you dock to Romanoff and learn how to run faster, |
| 0:04.0 | farther and injury free for life. Hey, this is Rich Froning, you're listening to Barbell Shrugged |
| 0:08.9 | for the video version, go to BarbellShrugged.com. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome to Barbell Shrugged, I'm Mike Bleto here with Doug Larson, Chris Moore, CTP behind the |
| 0:24.8 | camera. We're at Princeton University, we have taken over. We still broke into a classroom |
| 0:32.1 | where Einstein once taught and we set up our gear. Hopefully no one finds us. We have this perfect |
| 0:39.7 | perfect place to have Dr. Romanoff. Running genius, movement genius, really I've heard it's not |
| 0:47.1 | just about running with you, it's you'd like to talk about swimming and biking and and pose a |
| 0:52.8 | applies all that. So if you've ever had any questions about pose method or just how to run properly |
| 1:01.2 | or barefoot or whatever, we're going to do our best to address this tonight without getting |
| 1:06.7 | too off topic, which will definitely happen. No, that's going to happen, it's going to be |
| 1:09.8 | pulling this door. But we're going to it's going to take us an hour to get to all the points. |
| 1:15.2 | Make sure to go to barbellstrugged.com, sign up for the newsletter and we can notify you |
| 1:19.9 | when we do things like breaking to Princeton University and and uh, uh, Doug, Dr. Romanoff for |
| 1:26.6 | he is graciously volunteerarily. Yeah, to do this. Yeah, he did. I think mostly because he's |
| 1:32.5 | abused with us in our shenanigans. He watched us talk and laughed quite a bit. So he's back to |
| 1:38.8 | not with us at us. Yeah, he's got thanks for joining us. Oh my pleasure to be here. It's really |
| 1:48.2 | incredible honor to be in this building in this university and thank you, you guys as well. |
| 1:55.5 | Thank you. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's our pleasure, honestly. |
| 1:58.9 | Yeah, so if you're if you're just listening, you should go check out the video and kind of see the |
| 2:02.9 | view that we have going on here. We are actually in a legit like lecture hall. It looks like we're |
| 2:08.8 | on this uh, of a beautiful mind. This is where it was filmed. This room is where that was filmed. |
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