Buddhathu
If you are working without an experience trainer, try it on the treadmill with guard rails. Here is
the article. http://www.backward-running-backward.com (http://www.backward-running-backward.com/)
The modern way of life, our habits and our existence at odds with nature have all destroyed this
natural alternation, blocked it, disturbed its rhythms. Nevertheless, at the deepest level of our
instincts, these mechanisms lie dormant within us and can be repaired and awakened, because they are
part of the fundamental basis of our nature. If you are tired of life, emotionally depressed, or
depleted of energy, ALTERNATE. That is to say, for a moment, do the opposite of what your were
doing. You will see the results for yourself. This first breath of physiological and psychological
oxygen and the experience of the mechanism of alternation and its potential will give you confidence
and incite you to go further. After that, beyond what alternation can bring you, you will be able to
progress more quickly and attain new domain which will open up to you. This system has the rare
advantage of being simple and free of charge, and available to help a great number of people.
Dr Jacques Pezé
Backward running is clearly not a mirror image of forward running.
Backward running stimulates the cardiovascular system (15% in more).
HR (heart rate) 15% higher (174 beats in B.R and 151 in F.R.).
VO2 (calculation of oxygen consumption) 31% higher.
VE (minute ventilation) 88% higher.
Higher consumption of calories (1/3 in more).
Reduction of the hyperventilation (overbreathing).
Backward running stabilizes the rate of CO2 (carbon dioxide).
Improvement of muscle balance (agonist/antagonist relationships).
A more erect posture during performance.
A greater peripheral and global vision.
Elevation of the Center of Gravity.
A greater amplitude of the arms' motion.
A greater opening of the rib cage.
A higher stimulation of the metabolic cost.
Facilitation of neuro-muscular function.
Development of a stronger foundation upon which to improve performance (due to improved
muscle balance).
Facilitation of proprioception.
Less ground impact on the body's joints.
Favors the suppleness of the shoulders and the hips and joints.
Reduced range of motion at the hip joint with greater flexion and lesser extension.
Favors the solicitation of the hamstring muscles (back of thigh) to pull the femur extension on
the iliac.
Favors the femur extension on the iliac (backward movement of the thigh).
Develops the quads' power and gives a better flexibility and a better stretch of posterior muscles.
Modification of lower and upper extremity muscular activity of the body.
Increased active / functional range of motion at the knee joint.
A combination of maximum knee extension with hip flexion.
Elimination of eccentric knee joint flexion, i.e., the knee joint exhibits greater flexion at
touchdown followed by a nearly isometric / fixed position during initial stance.
Favors the propulsion on the front feet, that pulls a solicitation of the plantar flexors so of the
triceps (calves), so of the quadriceps to maintain the thigh and the pelvis in order to take
advantage of the impetus given on the leg.
Toe-heel foot contact patterning.
ASSISTANCE IN PREVENTION OF INJURIES
Back rehabilitation (due to differences in trunk posture) .
Recovery and strengthening from hip joint injuries.
Recovery from groin injuries.
Knee joint surgical rehabilitation.
Alleviation of shin splint syndrome.
Advisable for the inflammation of the muscles.
Recovery from Achilles' tendon injuries.
Recovery from ankle sprain injuries.
Neuronal stimulation of the right brain.
Allows to stand back mentally and psychologically.
Backward running develops stamina and endurance.
Backward running favors the recuperation from forward running excess and permits to improve its own
records in forward running.
The alternation of forward running and backward running favors the synchronization of the two
brains and develops the mental creativeness.
The alternation of forward running and backward running develops a
THE ALTERNATION IS A GREAT EVOLUTIONARY KEY!
The universe, the nature, oceans, animals, the human body, matter itself essentially function on
alternative rhythms of contraction and expansion, ebb and flow, expiration and inspiration, rest and
activity, yin and yang, female and male, backward running and forward running… The alternation is
the natural movement of Life!
Backward running and forward running are not made to criticize each otherbut to complete each other
wonderfully. Forward running and backward running are in fact the two natural halves of the
Universe Runing!
If you run 100 meters backwards, then run 100 meters forwards. If you run 1000 meters backwards,
then run 1000 meters forwards. If you run 10 000 meters backwards, then run 10 000 meters
forwards... More you'll work on the alternative concept and more you'll progress.
The backwards running is one of the greater therapeutic, sports and sociological revolution of this
early XXIth century. In 1968 to the Olympic Games of Mexico, people discovered with amazement the
strange backward extension running of **** Fosbury that will become very quickly the Fosbury Flop.
Today all athletes of the world jump in Fosbury. Tomorrow millions of persons will start running
backwards because the benefits of backwards running are really countless!
Edith e Christian Grollé
REFERENCES
Barry T. Bates, B.S.E., Ph.D., FACFE. PROFESSOR EMERITUS.
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~btbates/index.html
Janet S. Dufek, Ph.D., FACSM. http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jdufek/
Alan W. Arato, Lt. Col., Ph.D. http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~btbates/backward/alan.htm
LTC Timothy W. Flynn, PT, PhD, OCS, FAAOMPT. http://www.backward-running-backward.com/flynn.htm
Dr. Robert K. Stevenson Backwards Running By Robert K. Stevenson 1981. United States.
Ds. Jacques Pezé The Art of Joyful Living Element Books, 1991.
Dt. Jacques Pezé L'Alternance Instinctive Editions de l'Encre, 1989.
Gary Gray, P.T. http://www.medi-man.com/pdf/Review_July_August_2001.pdf
Du. Brian Dawson.
Jacques Colleter, Chiropodist., Podologue.
Alain Chassaignon, Physiotherapist.., Kinésithérapeute.
Maerten Verstegen, Buteyko Method., Méthode Buteyko.
http://www.backward-running-backward.com/benefits.pdf
Christian Grollé (25 years'experience). Christian Grollé (25 années d'expérience).
the article. http://www.backward-running-backward.com (http://www.backward-running-backward.com/)
The modern way of life, our habits and our existence at odds with nature have all destroyed this
natural alternation, blocked it, disturbed its rhythms. Nevertheless, at the deepest level of our
instincts, these mechanisms lie dormant within us and can be repaired and awakened, because they are
part of the fundamental basis of our nature. If you are tired of life, emotionally depressed, or
depleted of energy, ALTERNATE. That is to say, for a moment, do the opposite of what your were
doing. You will see the results for yourself. This first breath of physiological and psychological
oxygen and the experience of the mechanism of alternation and its potential will give you confidence
and incite you to go further. After that, beyond what alternation can bring you, you will be able to
progress more quickly and attain new domain which will open up to you. This system has the rare
advantage of being simple and free of charge, and available to help a great number of people.
Dr Jacques Pezé
Backward running is clearly not a mirror image of forward running.
Backward running stimulates the cardiovascular system (15% in more).
HR (heart rate) 15% higher (174 beats in B.R and 151 in F.R.).
VO2 (calculation of oxygen consumption) 31% higher.
VE (minute ventilation) 88% higher.
Higher consumption of calories (1/3 in more).
Reduction of the hyperventilation (overbreathing).
Backward running stabilizes the rate of CO2 (carbon dioxide).
Improvement of muscle balance (agonist/antagonist relationships).
A more erect posture during performance.
A greater peripheral and global vision.
Elevation of the Center of Gravity.
A greater amplitude of the arms' motion.
A greater opening of the rib cage.
A higher stimulation of the metabolic cost.
Facilitation of neuro-muscular function.
Development of a stronger foundation upon which to improve performance (due to improved
muscle balance).
Facilitation of proprioception.
Less ground impact on the body's joints.
Favors the suppleness of the shoulders and the hips and joints.
Reduced range of motion at the hip joint with greater flexion and lesser extension.
Favors the solicitation of the hamstring muscles (back of thigh) to pull the femur extension on
the iliac.
Favors the femur extension on the iliac (backward movement of the thigh).
Develops the quads' power and gives a better flexibility and a better stretch of posterior muscles.
Modification of lower and upper extremity muscular activity of the body.
Increased active / functional range of motion at the knee joint.
A combination of maximum knee extension with hip flexion.
Elimination of eccentric knee joint flexion, i.e., the knee joint exhibits greater flexion at
touchdown followed by a nearly isometric / fixed position during initial stance.
Favors the propulsion on the front feet, that pulls a solicitation of the plantar flexors so of the
triceps (calves), so of the quadriceps to maintain the thigh and the pelvis in order to take
advantage of the impetus given on the leg.
Toe-heel foot contact patterning.
ASSISTANCE IN PREVENTION OF INJURIES
Back rehabilitation (due to differences in trunk posture) .
Recovery and strengthening from hip joint injuries.
Recovery from groin injuries.
Knee joint surgical rehabilitation.
Alleviation of shin splint syndrome.
Advisable for the inflammation of the muscles.
Recovery from Achilles' tendon injuries.
Recovery from ankle sprain injuries.
Neuronal stimulation of the right brain.
Allows to stand back mentally and psychologically.
Backward running develops stamina and endurance.
Backward running favors the recuperation from forward running excess and permits to improve its own
records in forward running.
The alternation of forward running and backward running favors the synchronization of the two
brains and develops the mental creativeness.
The alternation of forward running and backward running develops a
THE ALTERNATION IS A GREAT EVOLUTIONARY KEY!
The universe, the nature, oceans, animals, the human body, matter itself essentially function on
alternative rhythms of contraction and expansion, ebb and flow, expiration and inspiration, rest and
activity, yin and yang, female and male, backward running and forward running… The alternation is
the natural movement of Life!
Backward running and forward running are not made to criticize each otherbut to complete each other
wonderfully. Forward running and backward running are in fact the two natural halves of the
Universe Runing!
If you run 100 meters backwards, then run 100 meters forwards. If you run 1000 meters backwards,
then run 1000 meters forwards. If you run 10 000 meters backwards, then run 10 000 meters
forwards... More you'll work on the alternative concept and more you'll progress.
The backwards running is one of the greater therapeutic, sports and sociological revolution of this
early XXIth century. In 1968 to the Olympic Games of Mexico, people discovered with amazement the
strange backward extension running of **** Fosbury that will become very quickly the Fosbury Flop.
Today all athletes of the world jump in Fosbury. Tomorrow millions of persons will start running
backwards because the benefits of backwards running are really countless!
Edith e Christian Grollé
REFERENCES
Barry T. Bates, B.S.E., Ph.D., FACFE. PROFESSOR EMERITUS.
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~btbates/index.html
Janet S. Dufek, Ph.D., FACSM. http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jdufek/
Alan W. Arato, Lt. Col., Ph.D. http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~btbates/backward/alan.htm
LTC Timothy W. Flynn, PT, PhD, OCS, FAAOMPT. http://www.backward-running-backward.com/flynn.htm
Dr. Robert K. Stevenson Backwards Running By Robert K. Stevenson 1981. United States.
Ds. Jacques Pezé The Art of Joyful Living Element Books, 1991.
Dt. Jacques Pezé L'Alternance Instinctive Editions de l'Encre, 1989.
Gary Gray, P.T. http://www.medi-man.com/pdf/Review_July_August_2001.pdf
Du. Brian Dawson.
Jacques Colleter, Chiropodist., Podologue.
Alain Chassaignon, Physiotherapist.., Kinésithérapeute.
Maerten Verstegen, Buteyko Method., Méthode Buteyko.
http://www.backward-running-backward.com/benefits.pdf
Christian Grollé (25 years'experience). Christian Grollé (25 années d'expérience).
