Knees Rub Together When I run. Is That OK?

Question:

Korrefey

Korrefey

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Good afternoon.

When I run, my leg moves along an arc-shape trajectory and my knees sometimes rub together.

Is that OK? How could I change it?

Answer:

Кульков Олег Сергеевич

Kulkov Oleg

Master of Sports of International class in track and field athletics, winner of the Zurich marathon, participant of the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics, multiple European Cup and Russian championships medalist, coach of the school “I Love Running”

Good afternoon.

If peculiarities of your running technique doesn't cause an injury, at first glance it's normal.

But frankly speaking, such mistakes of running technique should be corrected for another reason. If your knees rub together sometimes, in either case you lose a speed.

The problem will be solved if you find and do running-specific exercises aimed at a correction of this mistake.

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