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In the final stretch of our 12-week SCA Training Plan, Coach Joshua is discussing Running Drills.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n

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Running drills are an excellent way of improving your running form and adding extra running specific skill-based work to your training. We are big advocates that running and running fast is a skill and the way to get better at a skill is by practising. Running drills are a really easy addition to your training, all of which, if done consistently and week on week, will help your running.<\/p>\n

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Coach Joshua splits drills up into three different categories: walking, bouncing and strides. Walking drills are a little bit more controlled and really help you practice your running form without applying the normal rhythm of running. Bouncing drills are a little bit more challenging to master but more running specific than the walking drills. Finally, strides serve as a whole practice drill where you can marry up the skills you worked on within your walking and bouncing drills and apply them to your running.<\/p>\n

The reason for including drills in your schedule is that they help your balance and coordination. Runners find it very hard to stand on one leg, which is crazy considering when we run, we always have one foot off the floor! Joshua regularly asks his athletes if they can stand on one leg, and most of them really struggle. If you can improve at standing on one leg in a running position, you can create a more stable foundation upon which you can build your running form. When you’ve improved your stability, you can progress into more running-specific drills by adding the rhythmic elements within the bouncing drills. This can then transfer into your running action by doing strides to focus on the aspects of your technique that you have been working on.<\/p>\n

An easy way to break this process down is by creating a more effective knee drive. To improve your knee drive, you can simplify it by first working on your hip mobility through walking leg tucks. This would enable you to get a better knee drive with a walking A-drill as your hips are more mobile. This drill helps you focus on getting your knee up to 90 degrees. You would then progress this into a skipping A-drill, then high knees before completing some strides where you focus on increasing the knee drive whilst you run. Hopefully, you can see how we break down the technical elements into different components, practice it in isolation, and then start to increase the intensity of the practice, making the drill more applicable to your running<\/p>\n

TYPES OF RUNNING DRILLS<\/h2>\n

When implementing drills into your training, look at the following: <\/p>\n