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2 Gold Medals at 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships

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Elena Sviridova (Ivanova) goes straight for the Gold! 2 Gold Medals at 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships is certainly a great result of focused training and determination. Congratulations to Elena and Dr. Romanov on their work well done!

  • Women’s 100m T36 Final 27 OCT SVIRIDOVA Elena RUS 14.13 (Championship Record)
  • Women’s 200m T36 Final 25 OCT SVIRIDOVA Elena RUS 29.67 (European Record)

After winning 3 Gold medals at the 2012 Paralympics in London, UK, Elena took some time off to get married and enjoy her time with her family and friends. In 2013 she gave birth to a beautiful boy Vladislav and got back to training in 2014 full speed.

 

Topics of interest:

  • General Movement Theory. (CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY, Text book, 2014)
  • Specifics in Running Kinematics Developed by Pose Method in Disabled Sprinters with Cerebral Palsy. (INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THERAPY AND REHABILITATION, 2012)
  • Pose Method Specific Technique and Training for Para-Sprinters Diagnosed with Childhood Cerebral Palsy. (CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY, Russia 2012)

Picking the Brain of Nicholas Romanov

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By Adam Elder, Published Oct. 15, 2014

The creator of the Pose Method talks about all things running form during a visit to Competitor’s office.

Land on your forefeet. Shorten your stride. Improve your running posture. For runners, these nuggets have become the parlance of our time, and Dr. Nicholas Romanov, a Soviet-trained physiotherapist, is a big reason why. In a sport now filled with buzzwords like natural running, Romanov, in fairness, was way out in front of this trend years ago with his popular Pose Method.

What is the Pose Method? Well, in a very small nutshell, it’s a particular technique of running that embraces gravity and eschews the notion of pushing off the ground, relying heavily on a specific leg angle (22.5 degrees, since you asked) at the key moment in the stride (the “pose” phase). Doing this, he says, can enable a runner to become faster, more efficient, healthier and injury-free. And he’s quite emphatic about it.

A little mystique is often part of the package for gurus in any kind of pursuit; though he does nothing to actually play it up, Romanov’s whole presentation—his Iron Curtain sports background, pronounced accent, charming English-as-a-second-language phrasing and warm manner paired with brazen outspokenness—is irresistible. No matter how skeptical one might be about his teachings, the guy has been at this for years, studied more film than an NFL coach and has a lot to say. He’s an enthralling interview.

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