EP 015 || Run with Confidence: How Head Position Affects Your Performance

The Pendola Project Podcast

In this episode of RunFORM, join our accomplished coaches, Bobby McGee and Matt Pendola, as they explore the crucial mental and physical aspects of head position in achieving optimal running form

Key Takeaways:

1. The Mind-Body Connection: Understand the powerful link between head position and your mental state during running. Learn how a positive mindset and conscious awareness of head position can enhance your focus, confidence, and overall performance.
2. Physical Alignment and Balance: Discover the impact of head position on your body's alignment, balance, and posture. Gain insights into the proper alignment techniques that can help you reduce unnecessary strain and fatigue, leading to improved efficiency and injury prevention.
3. Visualization and Mental Cues: Explore effective visualization techniques and mental cues that can assist you in maintaining an optimal head position throughout your runs.
4. Breathing and Oxygen Intake: Uncover the connection between head position and efficient breathing patterns. Learn how proper head alignment can optimize your oxygen intake, allowing for improved endurance and better overall performance.
5. Practical Exercises and Drills: Valuable tips on specific exercises and drills designed to strengthen the neck and upper back muscles, promote proper head alignment, and develop muscle memory for maintaining optimal head position.

Whether you're a beginner looking to establish solid fundamentals or an experienced athlete aiming for peak performance, this episode is a must-listen for all runners.

When you're ready, we offer a 12-week digital course where Matt and Bobby have teamed up to condensed all the information and exercises you need to run faster, longer, and injury free. You can find that here: https://www.pendolaproject.com/offers/NsNFzL5h/checkout

Bobby McGee, your host, is one of the world’s greatest running coaches and has been coaching endurance athletes for 32 years. He is a 5 time Olympic coach, and has been involved in some form with 9 Olympic medalists.

He says, there are three very important aspects of endurance training;

1. Firstly, address your running mechanics. Teach yourself to run effectively and to avoid injuries in order to run at your optimum level.
2. Secondly, look at how you train. What is it about your training that’s holding you back? Is there a way that you can train better?
3. Lastly, address the mental blocks that hold you back. How can you unleash the power of your mind to get you to race effectively?

Matt Pendola has decades of experience helping runners build strength and get ahead of their injury cycles. He’s worked with some of the world’s greatest elite athletes including Olympic and World Champion medalists Kevin McDowell and Ben Kanute, to name a few.

He also has a handful of impressive personal achievements as an athlete, including winning the Elite Spartan World Championships Masters Division (2015) & qualifying for Duathlon World Championships 3 times.

These two world class coaches come together in today's episode to help you run better, run longer, and run injury free.

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