{"id":3480,"date":"2019-07-17T11:14:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T16:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.new.usafit.com\/houstonfit\/?p=3480"},"modified":"2019-07-17T11:20:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T16:20:43","slug":"form-how-it-feels-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.usafit.com\/houstonfit\/form-how-it-feels-is-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Form: How It Feels is Important"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=\"Form: How It Feels is Important\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:46px|text_align:left|color:%231e1e1e|line_height:2\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=\"3481\" img_size=\"large\" alignment=\"center\"][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=\"How does it feel? It was an endless process. \" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%231e1e1e|line_height:2\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Run a 100-meter stride, walk back and hear this question repeated over and over.\" font_container=\"tag:h6|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%231e1e1e|line_height:2\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_column_text]These weren\u2019t the words of some uninformed coach or parent trying to fake their way through coaching, they were spoken by Tom Tellez. And when Tom speaks, there\u2019s a reason for the words.<\/p>\n<p>As an athlete, it took me a while to grasp what coach Tellez was doing. Yes, we were trying to change my running mechanics, but the physics of it all wasn\u2019t what Tellez was truly worried about. He knew what it should look like, and that\u2019s where most of us put the focus. As coaches, we obsess over whether it\u00a0<em>looks<\/em>\u00a0correct. What was the shin angle at ground contact? Where on the foot did we make first contact? How much undulation are we seeing in the hips?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to go down this path, make correction after correction until it looks right. What right is can be debated, but it\u2019s how almost all of us approach changes in form. We have a model of what\u2019s right, then try to get the pictures to match up, mimicking the look, with little concern to how they got there. It\u2019s one of the reasons you see coaching cues that are looks based (i.e. lift your knees) shouted at every track meet.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=\".vc_custom_1563379718272{background-image: url(https:\/\/www.usafit.com\/houstonfit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/USA-Tipunder-gray.png?id=3477) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}\"][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<blockquote>\n<p>Trust your coaches. They have been where you are now, where you started, and where you are going. Trust what they have to tell you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator color=\"custom\" accent_color=\"#105677\"][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=\"2871\" img_size=\"large\" alignment=\"center\"][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=\"Form: How It Feels is Important\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:46px|text_align:left|color:%231e1e1e|line_height:2\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=\"3481\" img_size=\"large\" alignment=\"center\"][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=\"How does it feel? It was an endless process. \" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%231e1e1e|line_height:2\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Run a 100-meter stride, walk back and hear this question repeated over and over.\" font_container=\"tag:h6|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%231e1e1e|line_height:2\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_column_text]These weren\u2019t the words of some uninformed coach or parent trying to fake their way through coaching, they were spoken by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usafit.com\/houstonfit\/form-how-it-feels-is-important\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,47,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usafit.com\/houstonfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usafit.com\/houstonfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usafit.com\/houstonfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usafit.com\/houstonfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usafit.com\/houstonfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.usafit.com\/houstonfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3483,"href":"https:\/\/www.usafit.com\/houstonfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions\/3483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usafit.com\/houstonfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usafit.com\/houstonfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usafit.com\/houstonfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usafit.com\/houstonfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}