Coordinate your forces so that there is minimum conflict and maximum effect
Love Running Forever
Get Started with ChiRunning
Focus your mind. Strengthen your core. Run like the wind. Our mission is to help you run as efficiently and injury-free as possible so you can love running forever. With step-by-step lessons, you’ll learn to run efficiently, aligned and relaxed, while preventing injury. Use a ChiRunning approach and build confidence every step of the way.
Run Efficiently
Run smarter, not harder. Just like In T’ai Chi, movement comes from a strong core, relaxed muscles, and fluid mobility in your joints. Release any tension that restricts your ability to run easily and economically. Learn to let your technique efficiently move you from start to finish.
Run Aligned and Relaxed
It might sound counter-intuitive, but running with your legs relaxed is the secret to efficiency, endurance and speed. When you learn how to align your body and use gravity to assist your running, your run will feel effortless and your legs will feel like they took the day off.
Prevent Injury
When you shift your workload to your core, and learn to stop using your legs for propulsion, overuse and impact injuries become a thing of the past. ChiRunning shows you how to run without ever overworking your legs, so you can reduce your injury and have a feel-good practice.
Run With Confidence
Learn to move your body in a way that is aligned, efficient, relaxed, and prevents injury. When you move as your body is designed to move, you begin to feel good while running, and gain the confidence and know-how to run as often, as far, and potentially as fast as you’d like.
choose your starting point
Whether you’re new to running or new to ChiRunning, your world is about to change for the better.
Walk to Run
Get the Best of ChiWalking & ChiRunning
Chi Walk-Run is a gentle but powerful approach that makes it easy to start a fitness routine and stick with it. Using technique to transition between ChiRunning and ChiWalking allows your body to easily adjust to regular workouts and builds your cardio-aerobic conditioning. The goal of our ChiWalk-Run program is to eventually get you running consistently with confidence and ease!
One of the benefits of the walk-run approach is that whether you’re walking or running, many of the technique focuses you’ll be learning are the same for both.
Throughout your fitness journey, be kind to your body by remaining mindful of these 3 key areas:
Core Strength
Just like in T’ai Chi, you will create stability and maintain alignment using your core muscles. This allows your propulsion to come from your forward fall, rather than from pushing with your legs.
Flexibility
Build your body’s foundation using gradual progress. Start from where you are and gradually add in distance and speed while listening to your body. You have the freedom and flexibility to create a practice you love.
Aerobic & Cardio Capacity
ChiWalk and ChiRun intervals allow you to build your aerobic capacity one step at a time. You will move fluidly between the two to give yourself a rest when needed, and the speed when you desire.
Beginning Recovering Runner
Set Yourself Up For a Lifetime of Injury-Free Running
Whether you’re brand new to running, returning from an injury, or remaining active while aging, you can create a foundation for healthy movement with ChiRunning. A perfect program for a beginning & recovering runner.
Run with Confidence
Bring the ChiRunning technique into your body and move with confidence. Since 1999, we’ve helped tens of thousands of beginning and recovering runners develop and transform their technique––reducing and preventing injuries.
Yet, ChiRunning isn’t just about running. It’s about the principles that empower you to live a healthy and balanced life.
Run the Right Way
It’s easier than you think! ChiRunning has developed step-by-step lessons to show you how to run with less impact and less effort.
We’ll show you how relaxation and natural efficiency can become an integral part of how you move your body. You’ll discover that every run becomes an opportunity for a simple, effortless, and feel-good experience.
Move the Way You're Meant To
ChiRunning takes its guidance from the inner design of T’ai Chi which asks us to move the body in a natural order, where the big muscles do the heavy lifting, the smaller muscles do less and the tiniest muscles do very little.
This runs counter to how most people run which is using the small muscles of their legs for propulsion, neglecting the abundance of power in their core.
Recreational Runner
Run for all the Right Reasons
Over 30% of ChiRunners describe themselves as a recreational runner. You run to maintain good health, manage your weight and reduce stress. Our goal is to help you run without injury for the rest of your life, so you can continue getting all the benefits from your solid running practice.
You’re the unsung hero of the running world. You are consistent in your training, week-in, week-out, year-in, year-out and you take responsibility for your health which is really commendable.
With ChiRunning you’ll feel immediate benefits and a new-found freedom in body and spirit.
Overcome Roadblocks
If you’re getting in a rut, feeling some aches and pains or slowing down, you might get frustrated or even feel like giving up.
We’ve helped thousands of runners hit the reset button and reinvigorate their running. And, we can do the same for you.
With ChiRunning, there are lots of things you can do to help your run go better, should you find yourself in rough waters.
Learn ChiRunning
Learning is a life-long process and is as important for your growth and vitality as breathing.
In the process of learning ChiRunning, you learn to keep your body truly fit by engaging core muscles that will help develop balance and inner strength.
You learn to keep your joints open, flexible and strong, which lets all that great Chi energy flow throughout your body.
Train with ChiRunning
For some of you, running and event is what keeps you moving forward.
The Chi Training Programs don’t just tell you how far to run, as every other program or plan does. We include key techniques to practice in each workout that teach you to engage your core, relax your legs and run better than you ever imagined.
Is a 10K, Half Marathon or Marathon in your future? Chi has you covered!
