Learn an easy way to run
The 4M Running Method gives you the simple, proven system to fix your form, prevent injury, and unlock your true running potential. Refined over 15 years of clinical running analysis.
Identify Risks
Identify key risk factors in mobility and strength that can lead to the most common running injuries.
Effective
Learn techniques that have been proven over 15 years of clinical running analysis. This system has helped runners get out of pain, run faster and enjoy running.
Fast & Easy
The techniques used to change running form are quick to learn and easy to implement. You will feel different in minutes, and be able to reproduce it every run!
“Earl’s running analysis identified ways to improve my form. His guidance on how to make effective adjustments to my running form and strength training regimen increased my efficiency, resulting in me running the fastest I ever have, with ease, and made running fun again.”Vanessa – Ann Arbor, Michigan
The 4M Method is divided into the four M’s: Mobility, Muscle, Mechanics, and Mental Cues
Mobility
Unlock your body’s natural range of motion so your stride feels free and effortless. You will learn if you are limited in any of the key movements required for efficient running.
Limitations in these motions cause compensations and can lead to chronic injury.
Muscle
Running makes us very efficient at moving in a forward direction, but does little for side-to-side stability. Weakness in this is probably the biggest cause of running-related injuries.
When running, our bodies must absorb over 2.5x our body weight with each foot strike. Muscular strength is critical to reduce injury risk and improve performance.
Mechanics
Just as learning any skill, it is much faster and easier to break a complex movement down to components.
Over the years of working with running form, I have found it best to have clients “reprogram” the way they run by breaking down the running motion into small chunks and repeat these over and over to teach your nervous system to fire the muscles differently.
Mental Cues
Mental Cue: a word or short phrase that brings your attention to a specific movement.
Mental cues are techniques you will use while running, to reinforce the changes made in the Mechanics section and help the new movement become the “new normal.”
They are meant to be simple to use, so you don’t have to overthink as you try to run. The 4M Running System uses just a few simple cues to properly position your body so you feel light and fast on every run.
Signup for the 4M Course to see how it works.
A running form course for those who just want to run.